Good, you understand and appear to even agree with the point I made then, that promises or moral issues that are prior and after the law are not affected by the initiation or removal of the Law.
For example, the promises made to Adam, Noah, Abraham, and David are not affected by the initiation or removal of the Law.
Not loving God or your neighbor is wrong whether the Law is present or removed.
However, the nation if Israel was never unconditionally promised the physical land of Israel as an eternal possession. Israel was only given the land as a possession CONDITIONALLY under the old covenant.
Only Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their offspring, who is Christ, were promised the land unconditionally.
Right, because the promises to David are not a part of the Old covenant. The presence or absence of the old covenant does not affect the promises made to David, Just as the absence or presence of the old covenant does not affect the promises made to Abraham.
If the promise of land restoration to the nation of Israel, after the curses had been poured out, was not found in the Law, I would say you have a point.
However, we can clearly see that the promise of land restoration is found IN THE LAW OF MOSES. Thus any prophecy of land restoration, while the nation of Israel is under the old covenant, is rooted in the Law of moses.
Deuteronomy 30:1-5 And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you, and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you. If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there he will take you. And the LORD your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.
Jeremiah confirms that this promise, found in the law of moses, would be fulfilled following the Babylonian exile, in which the nation of israel was still UNDER THE OLD COVENANT.
Jeremiah 29:10 “For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Did Israel return to the land under the old covenant, after the curses had been poured out, thus fulfilling Deuteronomy 30:1-5? YES
Ezra 2:1 Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia.
Ezra 8:1 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
Psalm 85:1 LORD, you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob.
Do you believe David will literally be Israel's prince forever or does it point to Jesus?
Ezekiel 37:25 They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.
Jews have lived in land of Israel for the last 2,000 years. 1948 fulfills prophecy because the world now recognizes it as a country?
There is not one prophecy that mentions a 2nd exile followed by a 2nd regathering to the land. So not sure which of these prophesies 1948 actually fulfills.
Which promises of the old covenant were unconditional?
Why would Peter have expected it to be imminent? Would it because Jesus said "this generation will not pass away before all these things happen" ?
Peter's argument is that God lives outside of time, thus a 1000 years like a day AND a day a like a 1000 years, not that it will be thousands of years until Christ comes.
and yet you cannot explain why Paul, Peter, James, and John all talked about the end being at hand.
IF you mean Israel, as in those who are in Christ, then I agree.
You believe 2,000 year old apostles are walking around right now?