[LearsFool]

"Tenure" :-)

Well they sure THOUGHT they did anyway:

"and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham."

If they wanted to retain God's promises, Peter told them how to do so:

"And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation."

[metmom]

Romans 11:1-5 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” But what is God's reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.