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To: boatbums

Thank you!


44 posted on 08/20/2014 7:11:19 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among yvou except Jesus Christ)
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To: CynicalBear
You're welcome!

There is also this:

Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name: "If this fixed order departs From before Me," declares the LORD, "Then the offspring of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever." Thus says the LORD, "If the heavens above can be measured And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel For all that they have done," declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 31:35-37)

Matthew Henry's commentary says:

    As surely as the heavenly bodies will continue their settled course, according to the will of their Creator, to the end of time, and as the raging sea obeys him, so surely will the Jews be continued a separate people. Words can scarcely set forth more strongly the restoration of Israel. The rebuilding of Jerusalem, and its enlargement and establishment, shall be an earnest of the great things God will do for the gospel church. The personal happiness of every true believer, as well as the future restoration of Israel, is secured by promise, covenant, and oath. This Divine love passes knowledge; and to those who take hold upon it, every present mercy is an earnest of salvation.

Gill's Exposition of the Bible says:

    those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord,.... Of the sun, moon, and stars; should these leave their proper course, and not perform their several functions, or do the service appointed for them; should they desert their master, or disobey his orders, turn away from him, and pay no regard to the laws and rules he has set them: then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me for ever; but, as the former is impossible, so is the latter, The Jews ceased not from being a nation through their captivity in Babylon, nor through their destruction by the Romans; they continue a distinct nation and people to this day, though scattered throughout the nations of the world: though this rather refers to the spiritual Israel, the holy nation and peculiar people; Christ will have a seed to serve him as long as the sun and moon endure; his church shall continue to the end of the world; it is built on a rock; and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary says:

    a nation—Israel's national polity has been broken up by the Romans. But their preservation as a distinct people amidst violent persecutions, though scattered among all nations for eighteen centuries, unamalgamated, whereas all other peoples under such circumstances have become incorporated with the nations in which they have been dispersed, is a perpetual standing miracle (compare Jer 33:20; Ps 148:6; Isa 54:9, 10).

The ONLY way we can be sure of the precious promises of God to the church in this day is because of how He honors His promises to Israel. It borders on outright heresy to suggest Almighty God would renege. It's insanity (or stubborn ignorance) to look at all that the Jews have been through in their history - all the many times the devil worked through evil men to annihilate them off the face of the earth YET they remain a nation to this day IN the land promised to their forefathers - to pretend they are no different than any other race or nation!

46 posted on 08/20/2014 8:07:16 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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