"As we have tried to show, Ezekiel's vision was a "conditional promise" from God"
No way. You cannot do it. There are volumes of Scripture that refute your view here. Israel is still in the game big time. I would suggest that you take the opposite position and then re-study all Scriptures that prove otherwise. You cannot just carve out direct proof-text passages of Scripture on the Lord's continued relationship with the Jews because you think the Lord is finished with the nation as part of His future planning. You have missed much in your study of the Lord's Word. His promise to the nation still stands and there are Scriptures that state this exactly .... exactly the opposite of what you are trying to prove. Their intransigensce is one thing, but the Lord's purposes are another and you should find out just what they are. Setting one's self against the Lord's purposes is a dangerous game to play. Your choice.
Well what can I say? You think that when Jesus comes back to rule during the Millennial kingdom that He is gonna require us to be placed back uder a law? For what does Eze. 44:6-9 say?
"And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, In that
ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel." -Eze. 44:6-9 (KJV)
No stranger, that is the Gentile, shall enter the temple, unless they are circumcized. (v. 9) And yet you ignore this. And didn't the Apostle Paul tell the Galatians that if they submitted to "ritual" circumcision that:
"For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law." -Gal. 5:3 (KJV)
And by doing so:
"Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace." -Gal. 5:4 (KJV)
The law that Jesus fulfilled perfectly, we are going to be placed back under it?????? I cannot accept, no, I will not accept that! Sorry.
And to show that it is further wrong to believe in Millennial sacrificing, let me show you this:
These last nine chapters of Ezekiel refer to an order of rulers of the restored Israel nation called `princes', a term often used in the Bible, signifying rulers from among the people, not at all necessarily royal or kingly. Frequent mention of `the prince', `my princes', etc., is made in chapters 44, 45, 46 and 47. The prince has sons, and must make provision for them out of his own resources (`possessions'). There is not a single reference in these chapters to their being of David's line; the title `king' is never once used and nothing can be more certain than that the term `prince' or the office it covers has here no Messianic significance, for not only has he sons and the obligation of providing for them, but as prince he has the further obligation of making such numerous offerings of animal sacrifices for Israel and for himself that a special tax of ½ per cent is to be levied on the people to provide these offerings (ch. 45:15-22). The not uncommon supposition that this prince is the Messiah in His Millennial reign seems to be too grotesque for consideration.
And if you care to read the verses in question, the Prince himself will be the one who has to do the offering:
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And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel...
And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court...And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering." -Eze. 45:17,19,22 (KJV)
Jesus is gonna require a tax to sacrifice?
"All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel." -Eze. 45:16 (KJV)
I have shown you what God said in Ezekiel and you reject that. What else can I say other than God bless you in your convictions.
I refuse to believe that Jesus is going to offer sacrifices, or prepare sacrifices to Himself during this time. I refuse to believe that people are going to be placed back under the "ritual" law of circumcision. I refuse to believe that people are going to be taxed for the right to sacrifice.
I'm sorry but I refuse to accept, rather, I reject the conclusions to which you refer to. I can say God Bless you in your convictions.
I thank God that they are not mine.
God Bless
Till all are one.
