It is not and has never been the entire nation of Israel, that God loves. Did He love Korah and all those Israelites who died in the desert? Where was His love during the Holocaust? No; the notion of an ethnic group having any special position in God's favour today, totally conflicts with Bible teaching and is just another false doctrine of the rapture cult.
Romans 11:1-2 and 19-23, I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away his people which he foreknew…..You may say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and we Christians stand by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, blessing, so keep your faith: otherwise you also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they change their ways, shall be grafted back in: for God is able to graft them in again.
This Scripture plainly teaches that ONLY Jews who believe the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ will be grafted back into the tree as God's people. Jeremiah 12:14
God cut off Judah in 586 BC for their continuous and stiffnecked rebellion against His Word, even killing the prophets.
God still loves His people, His true people who obey Him, and any Jew can be grafted back into the tree, but all Christ-rejecting Jews are NOT GOD'S PEOPLE. The Parable of the Vineyard shows how the ethnic Jewish people have lost their status. Matthew 21:33-46
Less than 2% of the Jews living in Israel today profess to be a Christian. Only a fool thinks that God loves the apostate, atheistic, gay pride, Christ rejecting Jews. These types are NOT God's people.
So only saved Jews are part of God's people, but most are saved Gentiles. Only believers in Jesus Christ can claim to be heirs of the promises of God originally given to Israel, but now applicable to every faithful Christian.
Galatians 3:29 proclaims this truth...And if you be Christ's, then are you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Romans 8:16-17
keras,
1. You are totally out of line.
God said Israel was the apple of his eye. Zechariah 2:8
Korah and those Israelites sinned and treated the Lord with contempt.
Where was his love at the holocaust? Jews weren't even a nation till afterwards.
It is because of the fall of man that bad things happen to good people.
God gave free choice to Adam because God made him a creative person.
He allowed the freewill choice but did not approve of the choice.
Same principle with the Spanish Inquisition, the Stalin Years and the Holocaust.
2. Their were certain things in the law that if they performed they would receive certain benefits Exodus 15:26; 23:25-26. It was still conditioned by obedience.
God still loved the heathen but gave them no covenant. Was he impartial?
God's reason for the nation of Israel was to bring forth the Messiah and to have a written law to show what his standard of grace for living truly was.
The Jews were given the best by God for that time of any nation physically and spiritually. Obedience was required and sin was Judgement. They had a blessing and cursing system which the church is not under today.
The holocaust was not because of sins of the Jewish people such as the nations that oppressed them such as the Babylonian captivity, because of sin etc.
It was because of evil men who wanted to destroy them.
If Israel would have still been a theocracy and in obedience then the outcome could have been different.
3. I do not know all the reasons why God allows somethings at different times and then at other times not.
But I don't go around asking where God's love was or is.
When my boy was barely out high school he had a job at a coffee restaurant and was closing out that night and he and his assistant got robbed, held at gunpoint and was tied up for the night in the back room.
I lived almost 5 hours away and I woke up and felt In my Spirit something was wrong with one of the kids not sure of which one. We prayed in the Holy Gost and eventually was given peace and went back to sleep. The next day called and found that the owners found both of them alright.
The moment we woke up and started praying was the exact moment they were being tied up.
On the other hand a few years later he was driving his motorcycle home and a SUV pulled out in front of him and killed him instantly.
I never asked where the love of God was. My heart was broken and it wasn't his fault. But the outcome is that he was saved which means that he had hope for he went to Heaven.
For all believers in the holocaust God's love took them home.
4. All Christians are highly favored and so was Israel the theocracy but it was based upon obedience.
Israel will receive their promises of the covenants because God promised them he would.
5. Christians will not all have the same rank as a king, Priests, and rulers in the kingdom. Are you going to cry and say God is not fair because I should have been a general instead of a captain? Come on and be realistic, because positions of rulership will be based on faithfulness and stewardship just like in the parable of the talent.
6. Your whole thinking sounds like an anti-Semitic slant because you think the church ought to be in their position or at least that is the perception.
God has his own order of doing things and it is righteous and holy and he said he would set them at the head of the nations and that is where they will be and there's nothing you or anybody else can do about it.
Even if the church were not raptured Israel would still fulfill their covenants apart from the church.
7. Nobody is arguing that Christ will have only believing Jews in the nation of Israel and Judah when they become the two sticks into one Ezekiel 37.
Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Hebrews 8:7-13, show that Israel will be saved in the tribulation by the New Covenant.
There will be a believing remnant Revelation 12:17 called the remnant of her seed who have the testimony of Jesus and they are scattered from the woman.
The woman is preserved in the wilderness for the last of the tribulation.
Some of them may be saved or may not be saved it doesn't say.
V 17 says: And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war on the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
This could be an illusion to the woman not be saved but it is not clear.
In any case, the believing remnant is not the woman and vice versa. She is from the woman but not the woman.
Jeremiah 31:31 says; But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days (after the tribulation) saith 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. This was supposed to happen the first time with the nation of Israel but they rejected the kingdom message in Christ day Matthew 23:37-39. The parable of the vineyard shows this rejection but was only temporary.
8. Hebrews 8 is prophetic from Jeremiah's day.
It shows that the NC had not been made with the whole nation of Israel at the cross.
It also shows that a NC would be made with not just the nation of Israel but also with the nation of Judah.
v 10 only addresses the House of Israel after those days God will put his laws into their hearts and minds and will forgive their sins.
The believing remnant will already be saved in the middle of the tribulation Revelation 12:17.
If you believe that Judah is the believing remnant then that sets up even more of the truth of how Judah and Israel will become one stick and one nation forever.
Revelation 1:7 says they shall look upon him whom they pierced. This will be on the Day of the Lord.
I think you need a new set of eyes of what is happening in prophecy today to understand what is going to happen in the future with Israel in the future and the church as well. Jerry kelso