The burden of proof is just as much on you to provide NT scriptures that those things pertaining to Israel have been cancelled out.
I have provided scripture that clearly and specifically states the old covenant has been made obsolete and was taken away (Hebrews 8:13, Hebrews 10:9).
You, however, have stated that land restoration from the old covenant is still in effect, even through you agree the old covenant is no longer in effect. Thus, the burden of proof is on you to provide NT evidence that land restoration is still in effect.
. I’ve already provided scriptures that at the very least imply that the foretelling of land restoration to the Jewish people was still in effect, but you have rejected them as even evidence pointing to such
You have provided "your interpretation" of NT scripture. I disagree with your interpretation. You have not provided even one NT scripture that clearly and specifically mentions land restoration. Since we disagree on "interpretations", scripture that is less debatable should be employed.
for example: Notice Hebrews 8 clearly and specifically says the first was made obsolete.
Hebrews 8:13 By speaking of a new,
He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
So, can you provide NT scripture that clearly and specifically mentions land restoration?
You have put forth nothing that explicitly states or even implies that land restoration no longer applies to the nation of Israel.
There is no NT scripture that even mentions land restoration, so how can I put forth scripture that explicitly states the land restoration no longer applies to the nation of Israel?
What the NT does mention, however, is that the old covenant was made obsolete and was taken away (Hebrews 8:13, Hebrews 10:9).
We need to understand that there are unconditional promises (adam, Noah, Abraham, David) and there are conditional promises (old covenant with nation of Israel).
For example. The Abrahamic covenant is unconditional. God made several promises to Abraham that didn't require righteous works by Abraham. God alone passed through the animals to seal the covenant (genesis 15). Thus, Abraham did not need to perform anything on his side in order for God to act on His part to fulfill the promises. And as Paul states, the promises (PLURAL) are to Abraham and his offspring, who is Jesus.
galatians 3:16 The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,”
g meaning One, who is Christ.
But the old covenant is not like the Abrahamic covenant. The old covenant required Israel to act (obey all of the law) in order to receive the promises of God. Unlike Abraham, blood was sprinkled on the people of Israel to seal the covenant (exodus 24). Thus, for God to fulfill his part of the agreement of the old covenant, Israel had to fulfill their part of the agreement. That is the agreement of both parties. If Israel would obey, God would bless. If Israel would disobey, God would curse. After the curses were poured, if Israel repented God would restore.
But God found fault in the 1st covenant on the part of the people, for they could not uphold their part of the agreement.
Hebrews 8:7-8 For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second.
But God found fault with the people and said:
So God made the old covenant obsolete. Thus the nation of Israel, nor God are required to uphold their end of the deal as it pertains to the old covenant. The nation of Israel no longer needs to obey all the laws of Moses in order to receive earthly blessings of the covenant. God no longer has to fulfill the earthly blessings to those who follow all of laws of moses.
The old covenant has been superseded by the new covenant, where our sins have been forgiven and all the righteous standards of the law have been fulfilled in us through Christ when we put our faith in Him. We are no free to love God and love our neighbor. We now receive better promises than the old covenant.
But nonetheless, if you agree that the Hasmonean dynasty was not the fulfillment of
Ezekiel 37, then perhaps you will consider that the reestablishment of Israel as a nation once more in 1948 may be setting the stage for that eventual fulfillment.
Right, my position is consistent, in that I do not believe Israel being recognized by other nations as an independent country fulfills prophecy. Thus I believe neither the Hasmonean dynasty nor 1948 is a fulfillment of prophecy. You, however, draw an imaginary line and state the Hasmonean dynasty does not fulfill prophecy, while 1948 does. This type of logic is inconsistent.
When did Israel, the country established in 1948, repent and turn to God so that he would gather them back to Israel? This is the first requirement, under the old covenant before they woul be brought back into the land (Deuteronomy 30:2).
As we can see Deuteronomy 30:1-5 was fulfilled upon Israel's return from Babylonian exile. Jeremiah confirms that after the 70 years of Babylonian exile, when Israel would call upon the name of the Lord, He would restore their fortunes, and gather them from where they had been scattered to. This does not require Israel to be recognized as an independent nation.
Deuteronomy 30:1-5 When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
2and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
then He will restore you from captivitya and
have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the ends of the earth, He will gather you and return you from there. And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.
Jeremiah 29:10-14 For this is what the LORD says: “
When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the LORD,
and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
The author of Chronicles confirms that the words of Jeremiah were fulfilled upon Israel's return from the 70 year Babylonian exile. This does not require that Israel be labeled as an independent nation by the Persian empire.
2 chronicles 36:20-22 He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,
to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia
, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing.
I believe that God dwells in us through the Holy Spirit, but Ezekiel and Paul are not talking about the same form of God’s presence. Paul is speaking of God’s presence through the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. Ezekiel foretells of God coming to dwell among His people directly.
Per Jesus, God is spirit. I hold to the Trinitarian doctrine. I believe Jesus is God. I believe the Spirit is God. I believe the Father is God. I believe all 3 are one.
John 4:23-24 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Paul quotes from Ezekiel 37, which has its foundation in the law (Leviticus 26), as being fulfilled in the 1st century.
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in
them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people