PEOPLE OF GOD
Are the Jews still people of GOD? This question has been presented at the Sunday Bible School. And as a conclusion he added, “Jews lost their privileges, and they are no longer people of GOD.”
I heard same thing long time ago when I was watching one religious channel on TV. The Catholic priest actually admitted that they (Catholics) have been wrong by declaring that Jews no longer people of GOD, but they still are.
This admission of the priest actually surprised me, because I even never thought or imagine what someone would say such thing, more over indoctrinate such despicable lie as a church dogma.
And now again, many years later I herd it again that Jews no longer people of GOD, but this time not from the Catholics, but from “Adventist”. And I wonder who were else believes in such falsehood?
So I looked at the Bible to find the evidence of such claim. Indeed, I found number of places in the Old Testament there it said that when GOD being angry with His people Israel told them that they are no longer His people, and He will forsake them, and He will abandon them.
But at closer examination I also found that such statements have been said only at times when Israel turned away from their GOD, worship other gods, and did not followed His Laws and His Commandments.
But immediately after suffering from the punishment of GOD, after they cried to GOD asking for forgiveness, and cleansed their land from all pagan abominations, and began observing His Statutes and Commandments, the Lord GOD accepted them back without any delay and blessed them generously, and this pattern I noticed throughout entire Old Testament.
This means that when GOD said, “You are no longer My people”, and “I abandoning you”, or “Forsake you”, these words of GOD means that He abandoning, and forsake them to their enemies, to diseases, to hunger, to violence, to the sword, expelling them from their land as captives, making them slaves, and so on.
But as soon as they repented from the heart, asked Him for forgiveness, and stop violating His Statutes and Commandments, He immediately takes them back as His people, blesses them, and cares for them, just like any other good and decent earthly father would do to his disobedient sons, discipline them and forgiving them again and again.
Deuteronomy 8.5
5.Know then in your heart that as a parent disciplines a child, so the Lord your GOD disciplines you.
Psalms 94.12
12.Happy are those whom You discipline O Lord, and Whom You teach out of Your Law.
Proverbs 3.12
12.the Lord reproves one He loves, as a father the son in whom He delights.
Proverbs 23.13-14
13.Do not withhold discipline from your children, if you beat them with a rod they will not die.
14.If you beat them with the rod you will save their lives from Sheol.
It is also very evident from the Bible that the Lord GOD never spoke such words as, “You are no longer My people”, or “I abandoning you”, or “Forsake you”, about all generations of Hebrews, but He only said these words to those generations what did not following Him, and subsequently He punished them for their transgression and sins against Him, by forsake them and abandoning them to their enemies.
Leviticus 26.40-42
40."If theyIsrael confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me,
41.I also was acting with hostility against them to bring them into the land of their enemies, or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled, so that they then make amends for their iniquity,
42.then I will remember My Covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My Covenant with Isaac, and My Covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.
I also noticed while studying this subject that the Covenant of GOD with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and with their descendants after them, is ETERNAL. Such words as ETERNAL, or FOREVER, or EVERLASTING, appears very often there the word Covenant is mentioned. So this means that the Covenant of GOD with His people Israel is ETERNAL-FOREVER-EVERLASTING, for all times and for all generations to come. Israel numerous times broke their Covenant with GOD, but not the Lord, He still remains faithful to His Covenant with His people, otherwise He would be like them.
2Timothy 2.13
13.If we are faithless, He remains faithful, He cannot deny Himself.
1Samuel 12.22
22.The Lord will not abandon His people ON ACCOUNT OF HIS GREAT NAMEbecause the Lord has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.
2Samuel 7.16 (Words of GOD to David)
16.”And your house and you kingdom shall endure before Me FOREVER, your throne shall be established FOREVER"
(2Samuel 7.13.16) (1Chronicles 17.12.14, 22.10, 28.7-8)
Certain picture has been portrait in the Old Testament where GOD declared Himself as a Husband, and His people as His bride which became unfaithful to Him, gone astray, and committed adultery. But as a faithful Husband to her He patiently wait for her return to Him, which eventually will happen sooner or later, and she (Israel) never again will wander away from Him.
But the most amazing things about future of the people of Israel and their relationship with their GOD are written in the prophecies. And here only few of them:
Jeremiah 24.7
7.”And I will give them *a heart to know Me,I am the Lord, and they will be My people and I will be their GOD, they will return to Me with their whole heart.”
*New heart: (2Chronicles 30.12) (Psalm 40.7-8)(Jeremiah 24.7, 30.22, 31.33, 32.38.40) (Hebrews 10.16-17) (2Corinthians 3.3)
Jeremiah 32.38.40
38.”And they shall be My people and I will be their GOD,
40.And I will make an *Everlasting Covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good, and I will put the fear of Me in their hearts, so that they will not turn away from Me.”
*New Covenant: (Isaiah 54.10, 61.1) (Jeremiah 31.31-34, 32.37-41) (Ezekiel 16.59-60.62) (Malachi 3.1) (Hebrews 4.6, 8.6-13)
1Peter 2.9-10
9.But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for GOD'S Own possession, that you may proclaim the excellences of Him Who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
10.You once were not a people, but now you are the people of GOD, you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Revelation 21.2.22-23
2.And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from GOD, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
22.Temple (in Jerusalem which came down from Heaven), Temple
23.And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine upon it, the glory of GOD has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. (Isaiah 60.19-20) (Zechariah 14.6-7) (Revelation 21.23, 22.5)
And here is a question for those who think that the people of Israel no longer have their GOD because, “they lost their privilege” as one liar said at Sunday school. And now the question: Why then GOD would make a new Jerusalem, and put it in the place of the old one, and shine on it by His Own Light if the Jews no longer His people?
Is it would be more logical to put His own holy heavenly Temple among “His people” in Philadelphia, or Paris, or Berlin, or London, or in Rome for example, or somewhere in Asia or Africa?
Why then in the future GOD will even recall and bring David back to rule over His people Israel forever? (Jeremiah 30.9) (Ezekiel 34.23-24, 37.24-25) (Hosea 3.4-5)
Taking to account that these prophecies about David had been made roughly between 600 and 700 years after David’s death.
Why GOD would write His Laws on the hearts of His people if they are no longer His? I have many other similar questions to ask according to the context of all the passages above and according to those numerous verses which are not included on this page. Perhaps it would be too many questions to ask, and unnecessary to ask, because the Word of GOD always reveal the liar by its own truth.
