It seems that the thinking of the modern world, is that God favouring one nation over another is somehow immoral.
Under the divided attitudes among Christians runs the demand that all men are equal and all nations are equal before God.
This is not the revealed viewpoint we read in Scripture.
This seems to be a major driver of antisemitic sentiment.
Paul addressed this issue in Romans 9
And we read this in Genesis...
12 Now the Lord said to Abram,
“Go from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father’s house,
To the land which I will show you;
2 And I will make you into a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing;
3 And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
Was God sinning in choosing one nation over another ?
The State of Israel is a secular, political entity and has nothing to do with God and Biblical Israel. God never promised to regather Biblical Israel in a state of rebellion and unbelief. The majority of Jews living in the State of Israel are atheists and agnostics. Zionists were founded by atheists.
There is no more circumcision. Under the Abrahamic and Mosaic Law as per Genesis 17:7 -14 and Joshua 5 specifically 5:9, no circumcision, no land, no entry allowed into the Temple <- very, very powerful. A natural descendent of Abraham who fails to be circumcised is no longer heir of Abraham but is cut-off from among his people. He is no allowed entry into the land. But there is no more Jew. The land promises have been fulfilled and annulled: Joshua 21:43-45 and 1 Kings 4:20-21.
In Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28-29, we find God’s conditions for Israel to dwell in the land, and the conditions for restoration to the land when/if they should be expelled. Simply stated, Jehovah said that if Israel obeyed the Mosaic Covenant faithfully, she could dwell in the land. However, “If you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments...I will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you... I will punish you seven times over...I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it. I will scatter you among the nations and draw a sword after you...those who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands” (Leviticus 26:14-34). The condition for restoration to the land is then given, “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also walked contrary to Me, then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Abraham will I remember, I will remember the land” (Leviticus 26:40f). 1 In other words, if, and when, Israel repented, then and only then would Jehovah return them to the land. There is not a single word to hint that He would reward their unrighteousness by re-gathering them to the land in their disobedience. The same is true of Deuteronomy 28-30. Over and over the Lord of Hosts threatened them with captivity and scattering if they violated the Covenant (Deuteronomy 28:36-37; 45-49; 28:64). What is the only condition for restoration mentioned in the entirety of the text? It is given in chapter 30:1-10. Three times in the text, Jehovah said that when the plagues and dispersion for sin came upon them, and they would call to mind the Covenant “among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey his voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children...that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity” (Deuteronomy 30:1-3). Repentance and obedience to the Mosaic Covenant were the conditions for return.
Biblical Judaism no longer exists and it was forced to reinvent itself under Rabbi Yohannan ben Zakkai. The destruction of Jerusalem came and went in A.D. 70, Dan. 9. Remember it was the Hebrews that wanted a earthly kingdom not God 1 Samuel 8:7 and also the scepter of Judah would pass away Genesis 49:10. The reason the Jews rejected Jesus was because He rejected a earthly kingdom (John 6:15f). Deuteronomy 32, Daniel 9:24,26-27, 12:7 speaks of the last days of Mosaic Age which was fulfilled in A.D.70. (Deuteronomy 32:36; Daniel 12:7). The power of the people is shattered, the power is gone as prophesied.
Biblical Judaism has not been properly and lawfully observed for 1,953 years. Biblical Judaism died in A.D.70. The Romans destroyed all of the genealogical records in the Temple. Modern Judaism is a completely different religion than Biblical Judaism and now based wholly upon man's traditions, repentance, and good works. In fact, Biblical Judaism was already corrupted during Christ's earthly ministry by the traditions of man (Talmudism). There will be no more Day of Atonement with its nationalistic salvation. The Levites and the Aaronic priesthood is permanently lost (animal sacrifices could only temporarily cover sins not wash them away through Christ). Modern Judaism has no system for the atonement of sin and never will!
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WHO ARE “GOD’S PEOPLE”?
The first century church was built primarily by ethnic Jews. Jesus and the Apostles were Jews. Early converts to Christianity were predominately Jews. The synagogues were leading recruiting grounds for the first century church. (Acts 17:2f) New Testament writers were overwhelmingly Jewish. Ethnic Jews continue, to this day, to be added to the church.
In his letters, Paul used “Israel” and “Jew” in two distinctly different ways.
“For they are not all [spiritual] Israel, which are of [ethnic] Israel.“ Rom. 9:6
“For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly…but he is a Jew who is one inwardly.” Rom. 2:28f
Racial identities are not relevant in the New Covenant.
“There is neither Jew nor Greek….” Gal 3:28
“There is no distinction between Jew and Greek…” Romans 10:12
Jesus is the true spiritual Israel. Israel after the flesh was the type/shadow. [Referring to Jesus]
“Out of Egypt I called my Son.” Mt. 2:15
“The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed… which is Christ.” Gal 3:16
Being “in Christ” is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic covenant. Being “in the land” was the “type”.
“If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.” Gal. 3:29
Paul called believers in Christ, “The Israel of God.” Gal. 6:16
Those who are “in Christ” are the chosen people. Israel after the flesh was the type/shadow.
“Those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.” Gal. 3:7
“For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus.“ Phil. 3:3
“He is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart.” Rom. 2:29
Circumcision was a type/shadow of the repentant believing heart.
“For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.” Gal.6:15.
“You were… circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.” Col. 2:11
“He is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.” Rom. 2:29
Doesn’t Romans 11:26 teach that “all [of ethnic] Israel will be saved”? When we read the verse in context, we can see that when Paul says, “all Israel” he is speaking of “the remnant”.
“At this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.” Rom 11:5
“If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved.” Rom. 9:27
Isn’t it significant that Israel returned to Palestine in 1948? No. God promised and gave Israel a new and supremely better Covenant under Messiah Jesus. Physical land means nothing compared to Life in Christ.
“Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt…But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” Jer. 31:31-34
