Is God done with the Jews?

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Exodus 3:2, “The angel of the LORD appeared unto (Moses) in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.” And so, Israel a bush burned with fire, yet not consumed. The chosen people of God, remain the apple of his eye They have been expelled, exposed to misery, persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, and murdered from the time of their captivity in Egypt to this very day, yet Israel lives as a nation. Have you ever asked yourself why, why have the Jews been persecuted so horribly, yet preserved as a people and nation?

God's Plan:
The LORD planned to use a descendant of Noah, from the line of his firstborn son, Shem, to separate a people for himself and create a nation. And through all their corruption, and foolishness, the Jews remain the “apple of God’s eye.” Here is the LORD’s explicit declaration to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, his twelve sons, and all the generations to follow.

Genesis 12:2, “I (the LORD) will make of you a great nation, I will bless you, and make your name great,” The promise of a nation assumes the existence of a national homeland.

Genesis 17:19, “Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed, and you shall call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an EVERLASTING covenant, and with his seed (his descendants) after him.”

Now because they sinned against God, the ten Northern tribes were overrun by the Assyrians in 790 B.C. The Babylonians murdered tens of thousands of Jews, and in 586 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the Temple and the city of Jerusalem. Around 465 B.C. the Jews escaped the ruin designed for them by Haman. They would suffer the onslaught of Ptolemy Lagus King of Egypt, the dispersion by Seleucus Nicator, the slaughter by Antiochus Epiphanes, the ravaging by Crassus the Roman General, and by Herod the Great.

After murdering the Lord Jesus, the scepter would temporally depart from Judah. But this was only the beginning of Israel’s calamities.
Deuteronomy 28:29, “And you (Israel) shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and spoiled (be plundered continually) evermore, and no man shall save you.” See Mathew 24.

Matthew 27:25, As the Lord hung from the cross, the people cried out, “Let his blood be on us and our children.” The people put a curse on their own heads and the heads of their children. Thousands would be killed at Cesarea, Damascus, Bethshan, and Alexandria, by Vespasian, and by the Roman Legions led by Titus. In Jerusalem, over a million were killed, and at Masasada a thousand more died by their own hand. Then the Roman Catholics began their persecution of Jews, this followed by the Islamic hordes, the Ottoman, and most recently Adolph Hitler and his Nazi party who took the lives of 6 million. The LORD’s judgments upon the Jews have been terrible, extending to the people, their religion, and the land. Their ceremonies essential to their religion are no longer observed, except by the Orthodox Jews: also, no longer observed is their ritual law, for they remain without a Temple, altar, and sacrifice.

But the LORD has kept his promise, Ezekiel 37:24, “I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and all your idols, will I cleanse you.”

The time of cleansing had arrived: It began on May 14, 1948, when a generation of newborn babies came into the World. God’s promise, “This generation shall not pass away until all these things (Matthew wrote about) are fulfilled.” This generation is now 76 years of age. Israel is at war in the North, South and West. Antisemitism abounds throughout the world, and hatred against them is on the rise. There remains for them one friend, the community of Christians. We must continue to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

The bush of Moses, surrounded with flames, forever burns, yet it will never be consumed.

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[Replying to placebofactor in post #69]

The question is, "Is God done with the Jews?"

Jeremiah put it this way: first read verses 31-35. Jeremiah 31:36, "If those ordinances depart from before ---- then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. Thus said the LORD; if heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, said the LORD."

The last time I looked, Israel still exists as a nation.

Yes, and I visited there two years ago. It was beautiful in many ways. Yet the nation is not God's special nation anymore, because they failed to keep their part in the covenant and even killed God's Son, so now God's people are the Christian congregation, as Peter stated:

"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar (purchased) people...Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God..." (IPeter 2:9,10, KJV)

"Simeon (Peter) hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name." (Acts 15:14, KJV)

See also Matthew 21:43; Matthew 23:37,38.

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[Replying to placebofactor in post #69]

The question is, "Is God done with the Jews?"

Jeremiah put it this way: first read verses 31-35. Jeremiah 31:36, "If those ordinances depart from before ---- then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. Thus said the LORD; if heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, said the LORD."

The last time I looked, Israel still exists as a nation.

Yes, and I visited there two years ago. It was beautiful in many ways. Yet the nation is not God's special nation anymore, because they failed to keep their part in the covenant and even killed God's Son, so now God's people are the Christian congregation, as Peter stated:

"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar (purchased) people...Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God..." (IPeter 2:9,10, KJV)

"Simeon (Peter) hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name." (Acts 15:14, KJV)

See also Matthew 21:43; Matthew 23:37,38.

Question: Do you bother reading the comments that others post?

Concerning the Abrahamic Covenant and the New Covenant Jesus brought with him, both are unconditional. These covenants are God's promises to bring the 12 tribes of Israel to salvation. All a Jew has to do is obey, just as the Gentiles have to obey. How in the world can the Gentile nations be grafted into the blessings of the Jews if God is done with them? That would be like grafting a branch into a dead tree. The grafted-in branch would die. How can the Gentiles be adopted into a family that does not exist? Your reasoning makes no sense.

Jesus is the messenger of the new covenant, and his blood is the new covenant. As you read, note the personal pronoun "I" = Jehovah.
Jeremiah outlines God's promises to the Jews. Jeremiah 31:31, "The days come, said the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: (12 tribes)

Verse 33, "But this shall be the covenant that I (Jehovah) will make with the house of Israel; After those days, said the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE."

Verse 34, "I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." This was the LORD'S unconditional promise to the Jews; all they have to do is receive Jesus Christ, and over the past 2000 years, many Jews representing the 12 tribes have come to the Lord. No one can deny that fact.