Gods Mercy,Why the Jews are Still Gods Chosen People

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"You have the right to do that, but don't claim to be a christian then"


This argument that you carry about the Lord's dealing with His national people of Israel is often turned into one of telling another that they are not Christians if they don't buy your story

It is very obvious to those who know the scriptures on the matter about what you are doing

..... you are telling a half truth and using it to refute the total truth

When confronted you must drop back to your hackle

The people on this forum are not as ignorant as you must seem to think
 
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eternally-gratefull

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Not only national Israel says "yes" in Christ (national Israel didn't even say "yes", btw). All God's saving promises and purposes are "yes" in what Christ did (for all those who believe in Him, whether Jew or Gentile).
Aww. But God says in Lev 26 if Israel sins, they will be removed from their land, and their cities destroyed, But if they "say yes" then God will remember his promise to the fathers and restor them to the land.

So if an induvidual person of Israel says yes, we can praise God, he is heavenboud, but if (I should say when) the nation says yes, God will continue to keep his promise will he not?
 
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Joshua 21:43-45, And the LORD gave unto Israel ALL the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to ALL that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered ALL their enemies into their hand. There failed not ought of ANY good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; ALL CAME TO PASS.

Joshua 23:14, And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; ALL ARE COME TO PASS UNTO YOU, and NOT ONE THING HATH FAILED THEREOF.

1 Kings 8:56 Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to ALL that he promised: there hath not failed ONE word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
What does this have to do with an eternal promise?

Yes God kept it by giving them all he said he would. But eternal means forever does it not? Is not this promise still valid even today?
 
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I'll rephrase then. The kingdom is, like Christ said, already here (because He is God). He ascended to Heaven, sent the Holy Spirit to guide His Church (His people, His spiritual Israel) and He will return for a Second Time. This time He will come gloriously, will rule the whole cosmos and will establish the New Earth and Heaven.

Not according to revelation and the OT prophets. When he comes, he will rule for 1000 years. with satan bound, Then after the final attempt at war. he will do as you say, your missing a whole time period here.
 
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Jeremiah 31[SUP]36 [/SUP]If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

1kings9:6"But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 7then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.8"And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'…

romans 11 [SUP]20 [/SUP]Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

jews like paul that accepted christ are the remnant of israel.. romans 10
Yes, the rest of the jews are blinded, But as Paul said, one day soon the deliverer will come out of zion, and ALL Israel will be saved.
 
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GuessWho

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Aww. But God says in Lev 26 if Israel sins, they will be removed from their land, and their cities destroyed, But if they "say yes" then God will remember his promise to the fathers and restor them to the land.

So if an induvidual person of Israel says yes, we can praise God, he is heavenboud, but if (I should say when) the nation says yes, God will continue to keep his promise will he not?
Israel already said "no"... when the King of the world was with them. We also know what they did with the King. God kept His promises, He sent the light to the world, but the world preferred the darkness.
 
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So what Christ promised believing Israel in the OT got chucked? How do you know His promises to us wont get the same treatment?

Romans 11:28-29
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
thus the danger of this thinking, How can we live in peace knowing God could do to us what he did to them?
 
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???

Put on your glasses and read one more time.
I did

you states gentiles got circumcised to prepair for the spiritual circumcision.

you made no sense. which is it?
 
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Israel already said "no"... when the King of the world was with them. We also know what they did with the King. God kept His promises, He sent the light to the world, but the world preferred the darkness.
yep they did, Just like the OT prophets said they would

but does tht negate lev 26, if they were to repent (as the scripture says they will?


[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.

you telling me this is no longer valid? since when?
 

GuessWho

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[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.

you telling me this is no longer valid? since when?
I am not telling this is no longer valid, but that this is fulfilled and renewed by the blood of Christ. And in this New or Renewed Covenant God included both Jews and Gentile (all that believed in Christ - John 3:16).

Christ fulfilled all the promises. Why do you think God sent His only Begotten Son?
 

GuessWho

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thus the danger of this thinking, How can we live in peace knowing God could do to us what he did to them?
You are already doing it. You are already denying the gospel and Christ. You deny that Christ is the fulfillment of God's promises to Israel.
 

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Not according to revelation and the OT prophets. When he comes, he will rule for 1000 years. with satan bound, Then after the final attempt at war. he will do as you say, your missing a whole time period here.
And you deny Christ.
 
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I am not telling this is no longer valid, but that this is fulfilled and renewed by the blood of Christ. And in this New or Renewed Covenant God included both Jews and Gentile (all that believed in Christ - John 3:16).

Christ fulfilled all the promises. Why do you think God sent His only Begotten Son?
lol. It is?

How does a promise to give a nation their land and allow them to live in it in peace have anything to do with the 1st advent?

It has nothing to do with your salvation. It did not have anything to do with Their salvation. It has to do with the promise God made to them, a promise he said was eternal in nature.

Either it is still valid, and if Israel repents, he will remember his promise to them, or it is not, and even if they repent, God will still not remember THIS promise to them.

You can not have it both ways.


 
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Could you please quote where I said that? Thanks.
sure, right here....

The gentiles wanted to become part of Abraham's family. That's why they got circumcised.



The circumcision and the Law are not "legalism". They are the key symbols of the Jewish nationalistic pride. Saint Paul says that we should put aside "childish" things because we are now "men". He doesn't mean that we should despise the Law and and the Jewish religious exclusivism as they were some bad things. They are not bad things but preparatory means for the real circumcision (of the heart), for the real Abraham's children, for the real Law (of the New Covenant).

Paul says trust Christ alone, His work alone and do not put your faith in works [religious exclusivism] such as circumcision, Law etc. He talks about the Jews and their ethnical pride. And then He continues "is God only the God of the Jews?". No, His people are now all who believe in Christ.
So why did the gentiles get circumcised. And why was it prepatory for them (us)

this whole post did not make any sense, Which is why I asked you to explain it.
 
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You are already doing it. You are already denying the gospel and Christ. You deny that Christ is the fulfillment of God's promises to Israel.
Oh I do?

God gave me eternal life based in his promise made to abraham (in you shall all the nations of the world be blessed) I am saved solely on his promise of eternal life to me based solely on his death on the cross.

Then again Abraham was saved this way, as was noah and adam, and Daniel and soloman, and moses and jeremiah. We have always been saved by faith through grace.

So where do I deny the gospel?


Non of his eternal promises to Israel concerning the land, concerning Lev 26, Concerning whether they live in the land if they obey, or are taken from the land because they disobey have a thing to do with my salvation.

If you think it does. it is you who are following a false gospel.
 
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And you deny Christ.
No, It is actually you who deny the messianic kingdom. which is not the same as the kingdom of God. In which all men and women, either free or slave, male or female, jew or gentile, can come into by placing their faith in the living work of the cross.

If you want to discuss this in a civil manner p-lease lets do it. If not, I fear you will go the rout of your sisters and brothers who came before you who made the same false accusations, Ad hominem attacks, and bearing false witness of others.
 
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Some theologians have insisted that the statement in Joshua 21:43 means that the land promise of the Abrahamic Covenant was fulfilled then. But this cannot be true because later the Bible gives additional predictions about Israel possessing the land after the time of Joshua (e. g., Amos 9:14- 15). Joshua 21:43, therefore, refers to the extent of the land as outlined in Numbers 34 and not to the ultimate extent as it will be in the messianic kingdom (Gen. 15:18- 21). Also though Israel possessed the land at this time it was later dispossessed, whereas the Abrahamic Covenant promised Israel that she would possess the land forever (Gen. 17:8). (BKC)
amos 9 11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doeth this.
13 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

fulfilled in jesus day

as for genesis
romans


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[TD]4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.[/TD]
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[TD]4:14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:[/TD]
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[TD]4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.[/TD]
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[TD]4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,[/TD]
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[TD]4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.[/TD]
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[TD]4:18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.[/TD]
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[TD]4:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:[/TD]
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[TD]4:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;[/TD]
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[TD]4:21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.[/TD]
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Agricola

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sure, right here....



So why did the gentiles get circumcised. And why was it prepatory for them (us)

this whole post did not make any sense, Which is why I asked you to explain it.
The Circumcision of the Gentiles was basically part of a compromise deal thrashed out between Paul and Peter and the Rabbis to allow Gentiles to worship God.