I would like to discuss the following verses and these verses alone. Note the progresses in the way God deals with the Jewish people and their land. There are those who claim the Lord is finished with the Jews and the land, and that their particular church now represents literal Israel, calliing themself "Spiritual Israel."
So, let's examine closely the following verses and see what God had/has in store for them, and not what man things God had in store for them.
Ez.36:18-19, "I = (God) poured my fury upon them = (the Jews) for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols = (the temple, the ceremonies, the priests, the law) wherewith they had polluted it: I = (God) SCATTERED (dispersed) them among the heathen = (nations), and they were DISPERSED through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I JUDGED them.
Deut.30:4-5, "The LORD your God will bring you (the Jews) into the land (Israel) WHICH your fathers possessed (Abraham, David etc.), AND YOU (the whole house of Israel) SHALL possess it; AND He (God) will do you good, and multiply you ABOVE your fathers."
Amos 9:14-15, They (the Jews) SHALL build the waste cities, and inhabit them ... And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall NO MORE be pulled up out of their land which I HAVE GIVEN them, saith the LORD thy God."
Ez.37:21-28, "I will make them (the Jews) one nation ... they ALL shall have one shepherd = (Jesus) they SHALL also walk in my judgments, and OBSERVE my statutes ... I = (the Lord) will make a COVENANT OF PEACE with them; it shall be an EVERLASTING covenant ... And the nations (the world) shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my SANCTUARY shall be in the midst of them for evermore."
Hosea 1:10-11, "The number of the children of Israel SHALL be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it SHALL come to pass, that in the place (Israel) where it was said unto them, You are NOT my people, there it shall be said unto them, You ARE the sons of the living God.
Hosea 3:4-5, "Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and SEEK the LORD their God, and David their king = (symbolic of Christ); and shall FEAR the LORD and His goodness in the LATTER DAYS."
So, do you still think the Lord is finished with the Jews? Your thoughts, and stay on target.
Phil LaSpino
So, let's examine closely the following verses and see what God had/has in store for them, and not what man things God had in store for them.
Ez.36:18-19, "I = (God) poured my fury upon them = (the Jews) for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols = (the temple, the ceremonies, the priests, the law) wherewith they had polluted it: I = (God) SCATTERED (dispersed) them among the heathen = (nations), and they were DISPERSED through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I JUDGED them.
Deut.30:4-5, "The LORD your God will bring you (the Jews) into the land (Israel) WHICH your fathers possessed (Abraham, David etc.), AND YOU (the whole house of Israel) SHALL possess it; AND He (God) will do you good, and multiply you ABOVE your fathers."
Amos 9:14-15, They (the Jews) SHALL build the waste cities, and inhabit them ... And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall NO MORE be pulled up out of their land which I HAVE GIVEN them, saith the LORD thy God."
Ez.37:21-28, "I will make them (the Jews) one nation ... they ALL shall have one shepherd = (Jesus) they SHALL also walk in my judgments, and OBSERVE my statutes ... I = (the Lord) will make a COVENANT OF PEACE with them; it shall be an EVERLASTING covenant ... And the nations (the world) shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my SANCTUARY shall be in the midst of them for evermore."
Hosea 1:10-11, "The number of the children of Israel SHALL be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it SHALL come to pass, that in the place (Israel) where it was said unto them, You are NOT my people, there it shall be said unto them, You ARE the sons of the living God.
Hosea 3:4-5, "Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and SEEK the LORD their God, and David their king = (symbolic of Christ); and shall FEAR the LORD and His goodness in the LATTER DAYS."
So, do you still think the Lord is finished with the Jews? Your thoughts, and stay on target.
Phil LaSpino