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Ezekiel 37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 37:25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
Funny. Not only you have avoided verse 19-22 about the stick of Judah (Jews of Old) and Ephraim (Gentiles of New) into a ONE HOLY NATION as Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise through Covenant Israel, but you also didn't mention verse 24. Why? Because it disputes your premillennial view of Israel!
Please read the context:
Ezekiel 37:23-25 KJV
[23] Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
[24] And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
[25] And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
God did not promise us nor Jews a physical land! People like you are as blind as the Pharisees that also seek a physical kingdom, king, land, buildings, nation, etc.
And we continue...
Ezekiel 37:26-28 KJV
[26] Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
[27] My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
[28] And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
This is confirmed in the New Testament which you FAILED to compare with Ezekiel 37. John wrote:
John 10:14-16 KJV
[14] I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
[15] As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
[16] And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Jeremiah 31:31-34 KJV
[31] Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
[32] 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; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
[33] But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
[34] And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
The NT quotes this passage word for word and lets us know without a doubt that the covenant that God would establish with "the house of Israel and the house of Judah" in which He would "forgive their iniquity" and "remember their sin no more" is none other than the new covenant that Jesus Christ established through His shed blood on the cross. PERIOD! I won’t post it here but you need to read Hebrews, chapters 8 – 10 (the quote from Jeremiah is found right there in chapter 8 ). Also, pay careful attention to how that phrase is repeated in the scriptures that I just posted – “I will be their God, and they will be my people”. Like I said, this refers to all of God’s people from all nations of the world, including the Jews, - - the Elect whom He chose before the foundation of the world. This is what you and so many Christians do not understand today. God has always had only one group of people – the “ekklesia”, the assembly, the called out ones, the elect – made up of people from every nation, including the Jews of Old and New Testament! Don't forget, before the cross, it primarily consisted of Jews with a few Gentiles (people such as Rahab and Ruth). After the cross, it consists of mostly Gentiles with a remnant of Jews (Paul and the twelve, and every Jew who has come to Christ since His resurrection). Christians are not “interlopers” and “trespassers” in the covenant as many of you suggested, as well as their false accusation of "replacement theology. Christians (Jews and Gentiles as one body in Christ) were always the object of the NEW covenant. They are the ones who would be His people, and He would be their God. And they will have land, which is heavenly Jerusalem. Not a pile of dirt over there in the Middle East.
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