Guojing
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The ancient Israelites were in covenant with God. That covenant itself caused them to be "right with God". In their identity with the Israelite assembly, they acted faithfully in order to *maintain* their status as "right with God".
You have a very strange interpretation. The kingdom of Israel to split into 2, because of their disobedience, starting from Solomon.
Throughout the split, God kept sending prophets like Jeremiah, Hosea, Isaiah, to warn Israel to return to the covenant, and to keep the Law of Moses. But because Israel refuse to and kept killing those prophets, they were conquered by Babylon, then Persia.
Israel was definitely not "right with God".
Stephen summed up in Acts 7, when he was filled with the Holy Spirit, this was what God was speaking to the leaders of Israel.
51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
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