Gods Mercy,Why the Jews are Still Gods Chosen People

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Gods promise was not salvation, it was to be a people. and to be his representatives on earth. and to live in a land and be blessed by God.

Dont make a spiritual promise equal with a physical one, they do not mix
So God never promised salvation to the Jews and at no time were the fleshly Jews ever saved?
 
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1) Yes, God's promise to Abraham was to all nations (Gen 22:18) not just the fleshly Jews and that promise was realized through Christ, His gospel and Christianity. ANYONE regardless of nationality can become a Christian, a child of God, a chosen one.

2) one could become a proselyte Jew.

3) God chose Israel to being the Messiah into the world. Being a Jew had an advantage for "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." Rom 3:1,2. And if they obeyed and keep those oracles/covenant ...."if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people" So if fleshly Israel had obeyed the OT law they would have been saved but they chose not to obey, broken off because of their faithlessness, Rom 11:20.
no, gods promise of land and personal blessing was to Isreal only. if you read the passages posted by the op you would see this..

the only aspect promised to all nations, was a blessing. thats all..
 
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Rom 11:23 "And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again."

God cut off fleshly Israel from being His chosen for their unbelief in Christ. But if they would believe in Christ God could graff them in again this time as Christians. The fleshly Jews fell away from God and could be graffed in AGAIN, (no eternal security here)
your talking eternal spiritual promise.

we are not talking about this, we are talking about physical promise.

plus, if you read on, in that day, all isreal will be saved..
 
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So God never promised salvation to the Jews and at no time were the fleshly Jews ever saved?
well of course they were, but not because they were jews, but because they believed God, and it was accounted to them as rightiousness.. you know. just like abraham.
 

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In looking at the OP again, I had to just ask, does anyone personally know a Jew who curses the Name of Jesus, who hasn't received Christ in their flesh, and hates those who loves Jesus (most who live in modern day Israel)... and if you do know someone like that, would you say he is scripturally "chosen" somehow?
Paul cursed the Name before his conversion. You are mixing individuals with national promises.
 
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All we have to do is go by what our Lord said, and even He said many will fall away and not be saved.
He Himself even said that Judas was lost, so we can go by this that not all Jews will have salvation. Only those who come to accept Him.
judas was never saved.
you can not lose salvation, you can fall away from the gospel (hear it, try to walk it, but never fully accept it) but you can not fall away from being saved.

if you could God lied, and eternal life is not eternal it is conditional. we are back under the conditional covenant, and not under the eternal covenant, why do you want to go back under law? you want to do the same thing the jews did.
 
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Romans 11:19-20, 25
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

".... because of unbelief they were broken off...."

If the fleshly Jews had continued to believe God and obeyed and kept the law they would have believed Christ and obeyed Him when he came, but they did not and were broken off.

As Paul says in Rom 10:3 the Jews were lost for they would not submit/obey the righteousness/commandments of God.
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God."
 
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Ex 19:5 is conditional...if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant....
The Jews did not obey and keep the covenant.
Again, you are quoting from the conditional Mosaic...not the unconditional Abrahamic Covenant.
 
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Gen 17: [SUP]7 [/SUP]And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. [SUP]8 [/SUP]Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

I guess eternal does not mean eternal.
 
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even the mosaic has provision for a return.

Lev 26:
[SUP]40 [/SUP]‘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 have walked contrary to Me,

[SUP]41 [/SUP]and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;

if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt—

[SUP]42 [/SUP]then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land.


[SUP]44 [/SUP]Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God.

[SUP]45 [/SUP]But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:

I am the Lord.’”

I guess the lord did not make these promises.
 

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Yes of course, that is us! We who have been gathered into His Holy City Jerusalem :) We are all Israel, the Remnant gathered as promised, now fulfilled in usward who believe;

(Rom 9:24)
Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
(Rom 9:25)
As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
(Rom 9:26)
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
(Rom 9:27)

Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:




(Rom 11:5)
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

CHRISTIANS! Oh it is so crystal clear, I just Love the Holy Writ!
The prophecies to Israel fulfilled! Thank you Jesus!


simply part of the New Covenant that Gentiles become partakers in and I believe it is the Curch consisting of Jew and Gentile the creation of the New Man.
But this does not nullify the time after the rapture when God once again deals mainly with the Jews, called Jacob's trouble and finishes His OT promises to Israel through His Kingdom reign.
 

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Exactly :) The fullness of Israel "Comes in" when they accept Christ. The people out of the Nations/Gentiles who have been receiving this Gospel of salvation have their "eyes opened". It's been going on 2000 years now. Folks who see the Glorious Gospel to Israel shining in the face of Christ the Messiah, are No longer ignorant of the OT mystery of salvation to the remnant of Israel, but Now Fulfilled in US who are grafted in, regardless of race creed or sex.

Very good understanding. Thank you for those scriptures, they really say it plain :)
reread...'blindness in part UNTIL'
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simply part of the New Covenant that Gentiles become partakers in and I believe it is the Curch consisting of Jew and Gentile the creation of the New Man.
But this does not nullify the time after the rapture when God once again deals mainly with the Jews, called Jacob's trouble and finishes His OT promises to Israel through His Kingdom reign.
amen, as he says, he will restore life to the bones, take Israel and judah, and make them one nation again, he will be their God and they his people. and never again will they be under their enemies hand again.
 
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reread...'blindness in part UNTIL'
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yes, All israel will be saved, after the fullness of the gentiles is complete. (if they study daniel they would see this.)
 

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Oh yeah, I could tell you horror stories.
A wonderful brother from Ohio traveled here a lot to preach Jesus. He's with the Lord now, But the last time, because of the intense hatred of anything to do with Jesus, they threw him in a cell. He was about 78, diabetic, they kept his insulin from him and it was a miracle he didn't die before getting released, but he was comatose. It is fair game against both Muslims and Christians in this City. If you aren't a Jew, you are Goyim. Cattle. To be used to their convenience. If you ever read the Babylonian Talmud and knew what was up with the rabbis, you'd vomit.
But I rejoice continually being delivered from this Jerusalem beneath, in bondage with her children. Now Living forever as of the New Jerusalem, the Heavenly Mount Zion.
Oh I sure hope that talking enough about these things inspires more folks. Thank thank you so much everyone for letters of encouragement there are so many beautiful people here.
no doubt, Rabbinical/Talmudic Judaism is a disgrace.
 

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yes, but not because they are in sin, but because they have repented of their sin, and they all believe and recieve Jesus as messiah and savior
Yes, God will put a real squeeze on the Jews until they cry 'uncle!'...I mean Yeshua, save us!
 
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Yes, God will put a real squeeze on the Jews until they cry 'uncle!'...I mean Yeshua, save us!
thus why it is called the time of jacobs trouble. he puts them against the wall and forces them to call him, then they finally see their mistake. and yell for his salvation. many gentiles will be saved at the same time, it is awsome, a great revival, probably greater than any ever.
 

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thus why it is called the time of jacobs trouble. he puts them against the wall and forces them to call him, then they finally see their mistake. and yell for his salvation. many gentiles will be saved at the same time, it is awsome, a great revival, probably greater than any ever.
This "squeeze" is so severe only 10% of Israel lives through it...

Eze 5:2 You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them.
Eze 5:3 You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment.
Eze 5:4 Then take some of them again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel.

Isa 6:11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered: "Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, The houses are without a man, The land is utterly desolate,
Isa 6:12 The LORD has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
Isa 6:13 But yet a tenth will be in it, And will return and be for consuming, As a terebinth tree or as an oak, Whose stump remains when it is cut down. So the holy seed shall be its stump."
 
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All one has to do is continue reading...

Rom 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Rom 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

Notice this is future? Sound anything like the following?

Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

Rom 11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
Rom 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

This can be read correctly two different ways. The gifts and calling of God are without turning back...

Luk 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

but the second way is that once God calls a person, He will not remove the calling...

Php 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

(Please no discussion on eternal security here, that is not the topic)

Rom 11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

The Gentiles have obtained mercy currently.

Rom 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Rom 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

Whom has God concluded in unbelief that He might have mercy upon them?

Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Rom 11:1 "I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin."
Rom 11:2 "
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,"

Paul is NOT talking about fleshly Israel here but is referring to spiritual Jews (Christians) and spiritual Israel (the church).

Paul was a fleshly Jew but was not of the fleshly Jews that were cast off for Paul became a Christian. Paul could not be saved simply being a fleshly Jew but had to obey the gospel and become a Christian. So even though God cast off fleshly Israel God did not cast them off so much so they could not be saved, but could be saved by becoming a Christian as Paul.

Rom 11:2 the people (not nation) that God foreknew are the ones that obey God>Christians. The nation Israel was cast off as seen in the following verses of Rom 11:15-25.

In Rom 11:3-5 Paul demonstrates who God's people are. In OT times during the time of Elijah God's people were the ones that OBEYED. Paul goes on to say in this present time God's people are the ones that OBEY Him, that obey the gospel > elect according to grace.

Rom 11:26
"And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:"

The Israel here is spiritual Israel the church, Christians, not fleshly Israel. THis spiritual Israel will be saved by Christ the Deliverer.

Rom 11:27 "
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins."

This spiritual Israel, the church/Christians would have their sins remitted by Christ. This could not happen with fleshly Israel under the law for they had no remission of sins under that law being without the blood of Christ. So there would be a new covenant with spiritual Israel, the gospel through which sins are remitted. Again, Rom 11:15-25 fleshly Israel had been cast off so verses 25,26 cannot be talking about this fleshly nation. When the fullness of the Gentiles come in/reaped then both Jew and Gentile will make up the church (spiritual Israel) and God's harvest is concluded.,,,,,
So all Israel (spiritual Israel, Christians > Spiritual Jews (Rom 2:28,29) made up of both Jews and Gentiles) shall be saved.
 

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".... because of unbelief they were broken off...."

If the fleshly Jews had continued to believe God and obeyed and kept the law they would have believed Christ and obeyed Him when he came, but they did not and were broken off.

As Paul says in Rom 10:3 the Jews were lost for they would not submit/obey the righteousness/commandments of God.
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God."
Your premise contains a contradiction. If they had believed God then they would not have rejected their Messiah when He came.