Has that not already happened?
History dictates that it did beginning in 1947.
After WWII, Jews began flocking back home by the thousands, thousands!
So I say, prophesy fulfilled (May 1947).
But, we are drifting way from the subject.
Scripture indeed does teach the "election" of the Jews.
And regarding the last nine chapters of Eze., I ask again, did God ever make any conditional promises?
God Bless
Till all are one.
The passage in question says:
33 "
As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you. 34 I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to face. 36 Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you," says the Lord GOD.
37 "I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; 38 I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I
am the LORD."
Ezekiel 20:33-38
Although some of the Jews indeed began to to return to their ancient homeland in 1947, nothing that happened at that time, or at any time since that time, even resembles the purging that is so very clearly stated in this prophecy. For it clearly says of those so purged, that "I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel." To even pretend that anything even slightly resembling this has ever happened, is utter nonsense.
And the rebels have most certainly NOT been purged from their midst, even up to this present time. So this prophecy has most certainly NOT been fulfilled, even partially.
Isaiah 66:15-21 makes it very clear that the return spoken of here will take place AFTER Messiah returns, not before.
15 For behold, the LORD will come with fire And with His chariots, like a whirlwind, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire and by His sword The LORD will judge all flesh; And the slain of the LORD shall be many. 17 "Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves,
To go to the gardens After an
idol in the midst, Eating swine's flesh and the abomination and the mouse, Shall be consumed together," says the LORD. 18 "For I
know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory. 19 I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations:
to Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan,
to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. 20 Then they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the LORD out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem," says the LORD, "as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD. 21 And I will also take some of them for priests
and Levites," says the LORD.
Isaiah 66:15-21
This promise is most certainly NOT conditional. But to return to your question, the ONLY conditional promise in the entire last nine chapters of Ezekiel is: "Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever." (Ezekiel 43:9)
This promise was indeed conditional, but the condition had nothing to do with the fulfillment of everything else in these nine chapters. it had to do with how long the God of Israel would dwell in their midst. If they "put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from" God, then He would "dwell in their midst forever."
But this condition on the perpetuity of God's dwelling with them, had nothing to do with the promise of their re-establishment in the land. That was promised unconditionally, not only in these nine chapters, but in many other places as well.
Two other unconditional promises made to this rebellious people were their eventual repentance, as described in Zechariah 12:10-14, (see below) and the fact that they will all be holy. Not some of them, all of them.
3 And it shall come to pass that
he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy--everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 4:3
10 "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for
his only
son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. 11 In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 And the land shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; 13 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves; 14 all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.
Zechariah 12:10-14