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To: GiovannaNicoletta
Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. 33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” (Jeremiah 31:31-34) Has that promise been fulfilled? Do all the Jews, down to the last one, know Jesus Christ? And if it hasn't been fulfilled yet, did God lie when He made that promise to His covenant, chosen people?

Paul had to deal with the same question and he answered it in Romans 11...the whole chapter is instructive in that he compares Jews to natural branches of a tree and gentiles as grafted in branches on that same tree.

Rom 11:25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Rom 11:26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "THE DELIVERER WILL COME OUT OF ZION, AND HE WILL TURN AWAY UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB;
Rom 11:27 FOR THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS."
Rom 11:28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

Everything promised to Israel will happen. The promises of God are irrevocable. Rom 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

46 posted on 05/16/2012 5:59:20 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
Thank you. You finally admit that there is a physical, literal nation of Israel to which God made promises that He will keep and you admit that those promises made by God to Israel are valid, and true, and have not yet been fulfilled.

You admit that there is a nation of Israel which will come to faith in Jesus Christ, the true Israel with whom God made the New Covenant and you admit that it is that Israel, the physical descendants of Isaac, whom God calls the "children of promise" who will be reconciled to the Father through Jesus Christ and which be the nation that fulfills the New Covenant, not the Church. You admit that this nation, according to the very words of God, will have their sins taken away and be saved and redeemed.

Finally. Thank you.

47 posted on 05/16/2012 6:07:39 PM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta ("....in the last days, mockers will come with their mocking... (2 Peter 3:3))
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