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But as a chosen people, their special place in history came to an end.

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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

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.

Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD. -- Jeremiah 31:31-37

——>Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Also mentioned in Hebrews 8 and 10. I quoted it in post 1757.

Ratified by the blood of Christ, at his death on the cross. Confirmed with the house of Israel and Judah, from the initiation of Christ’s ministry, to the stoning of Stephen, EXACTLY 7 years. The gospel message ONLY went to the Jews for the first 7 years, 1 prophetic week, the LAST week of Daniel’s 70 year prophecy. As a people, they REJECTED the gospel. Their chosen status, AS A PEOPLE, was then forever striped from them. Now, those in Christ, as a CONTINUATION OF “Israel” are under the new covenant. Of course, that includes any Jews (or anyone) that accept Christ as their Messiah and Savior.

See posts 1758, 1765, 1766.

I’ll post the link, again, to the Daniel’s 70 week article, because it’s THAT important. All of you have it wrong. That goes double for Elsie. You cannot rip 7 years out of a continual, chronological time prophecy and magically transport it >2000 years into the future (no false doctrine PTR). Just like the line from the movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, ... “They’re digging in the wrong place”.

https://www.biblelightinfo.com/dan927.htm

(A) “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city,”

- This sets the time period at 70 weeks. It is generally accepted here that you must use the day = year prophecy formula (Num 14:34, Ezek 4:6), yielding a time period of 490 years from start to completion.

- The word determined here actually means “cut off”. This 70 weeks are cut off from, or begin at the same time as, the larger 2300 day (year) prophecy of Dan 8:14, which has as it’s focus the cleansing of the sanctuary in heaven, the beginning of Judgment. So both the 70 week (490 year) and the 2300 day (year) prophecy begin at the same date. Note that you can not arbitrarily apply the year for a day principle in one case and not another, you must remain consistent. Dan 8:26 strongly hints that the 2300 day prophecy in verse 14 is not just 2300 days, but many days more than it literally indicates. This would also support using year instead of day.

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Not false. THERE IS NO MORE LITERAL ISRAEL. Please note 36.

31. A new covenant. The Israelites had failed to meet the divine requirements because they endeavored to be righteous through their own futile strivings. Recognizing this inherent human tendency, the Lord promised “a new covenant.” By this arrangement man becomes holy through faith in the Redeemer and Sanctifier (see Gal. 3; Heb. 8:8–10; see on Eze. 16:60). It was God’s desire that the returned exiles should enter heart and soul into this “new covenant” experience. But the nation failed to measure up to its opportunities (see pp. 29–32).

33. Write it in their hearts. God’s law was not to be simply an external standard of righteousness. It was to be a spring of action to guide and control human conduct (see Rom. 8:1–4; 2 Cor. 3:3–6).

34. Shall teach no more. The failure of God’s servants in large part to instruct the people in the real knowledge of God, because of the perfunctory performance of the observances and ceremonies of the old covenant, was to be corrected by the intimate acquaintance and fellowship believers would have with their Lord through the faith stimulated by the new covenant (see John 6:45, 46; 1 Cor. 2:6–16; Col. 1:27, 28).

35. Ordinances of the moon. God refers to the surety and permanence of natural law and order as a guarantee of the surety and permanence of the “everlasting covenant” (see Jer. 32:40; cf. Isa. 55:3; Eze. 37:26). Lord of hosts. See on ch. 7:3.

36. Seed of Israel. This promise, not fulfilled in literal Israel (see on v. 31), will be fulfilled in spiritual Israel, now the true “seed” of Abraham (see Gal. 3:29).

37. Can be measured. In the same manner as the new covenant sets forth the divine stability and permanence (see vs. 35, 36), it likewise emphasizes the truth that the human intellect cannot plumb the depth of the knowledge of the divine purpose in regard to God’s people (see Rom. 11:33).

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