I will answer all the objections to my last statements in a single post. First, any accusation that I have "left out" any word of scripture is simply false. I reject the interpretation placed upon the Greek word "houto" by some. But that does not even so much as imply that I have left this word out.
As to any Israelite that has not turned to the Lord at the time He comes, Yes, what I am saying, and what everyone who submits to scripture must of necessity say, is that after death, there is no further chance for repentance.
As to how it will be determined who is, or is not, a true Israelite, as this determination will be made by the Lord himself, there will be zero problem. Everyone that the God of heaven recognizes as a descendant of the ancient nation of Israel will be brought back to the land. And the judge's decision will be final.
But being brought back to the land will not mean being brought into blessing. At that time, there will be a judgment, as is very clearly stated in Ezekiel 20:33-38, where we read:
"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. I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to face. 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. "I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; 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."
It is important to notice the last words of this statement "I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel." This is the absolute proof that this is speaking of something that has never taken place. For nothing even remotely resembling this has ever happened in the entire sad history of that rebellious nation.
But as for those not purged out, we read, again in explicitly stated language, that:
"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. In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 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; 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
Some want to pretend that this only speaks of the mourning of the whole land because of the judgments that befell them in AD 70 or so. But there was no widespread repentance associated with that mourning, no "Spirit of grace and supplication," as so explicitly stated above.
The net result of this purging out of the rebels and repentance of the rest will be that "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 and "No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." Jeremiah 31:34
Nor is this only taught in the Old Testament for we read in Romans 9:1-5:
"I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen."
Here we find explicitly stated that "the adoption, the glory, the covenants... and the promises," still belong to whom? to Paul's "brethren," his "countrymen according to the flesh, who are Israelites."
"For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; Romans 11:25-26
The blindness upon Israel is only partial, and is only temporary. And it will end when "the fullness of the Gentiles has come in."
The explicitly stated words of God are too strong for all the reasonings of mere mortals.