There are people who think Israel has not future in God’s plan and the Abrahamic covenant is either already fulfilled or God changed His plan due to Israel’s disobedience.
God is faithful to all His promises, and all will be literally fulfilled, as many of them have already been fulfilled with pinpoint accuracy in history. If He is not faithful to His word, we have nothing to hope for. If He, as God, breaks promise, then He becomes unfaithful and untrustworthy, and our salvation is only a wish, not a reality.
Do not question God’s promise in the OT scripture. Jesus said this, “For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.” Not even a small stroke or comma will have to change. All will be accomplished.
The unconditional and everlasting promises in Abrahamic covenant given in Genesis 12:1-3, 7, 13:15, along with confirmation ceremony and ratification by animal sacrifices in Genesis 15:10-21 regarding the land part of it, with the exact details of the boundaries of the land, and subsequent reiterations of the same covenant to Isaac and not to Ishmael, and Jacob and not to Esau, (Genesis 26:1-4, Genesis 28:1-4 & 10-14},
and repeated by David in 1 Chronicles 16:15-18, and Psalms 105:10-11 and several others later by major and minor prophets although has partial fulfillment in the past in the time of Josuah and Soloman was not fully fulfilled in the history.
and repeated by David in 1 Chronicles 16:15-18, and Psalms 105:10-11 and several others later by major and minor prophets although has partial fulfillment in the past in the time of Josuah and Soloman was not fully fulfilled in the history.
These verses and others confirm the covenant God made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are unconditional and everlasting. It was not based on the faithfulness and obedience of Abraham, Issac, Jacob or their posterity, but was hinged on the Word and faithfulness of God only.
Joshua 13 attests that the whole promised land was not possessed in 13:1-2. However, the land that was conquered then was only divided among the tribes.
The exile prophets- both major and minor prophets- expected and prophesied numerous times about the future regathering to the land for its full fulfillment (if the land promise was already fulfilled in Joshua or in Solomons, why this fulfillment prophecies after Joshua and Solomon by prophets?},
Abrahamic Covenant along with the fulfillment of the Davidic covenant (coming king and kingdom on this earth {2 Samuel 7), as it was postponed per Christ’s own words in Acts 1:6-8, before His ascension to heaven, (this restoration time is only in Fathers calendar),
will be when God who made the New Covenant with Israel after the expectation and description of the regathering to the land with the king, (the context of New Covenant is regathering to the land in Jeremiah 31:31-34) who in this age incorporated the church as the beneficiaries now in a partial sense, will consummate it with the repentance of the nation Israel when they look to the one who they have pierced and mourn and cry over their Messiah in the near future, as prophesied by Zechariah 12:10-14 and 13:1).
All the covenants Abrahamic (which is of course the ground of all other subsequent covenants), Davidic, and New Covenant will be fully fulfilled at that time.
Israel has a beautiful future and a blessed future in the plan of God, as Jeremiah wrote after the prediction of the New Covenant that Israel will last forever, and it did in history miraculously, and we see them as a beautiful nation as promised, and the worldwide blessings promised to Abraham came out of them thought the Savior whom God had sent for forgiveness and salvation, and regathering to the land from all the ends of the earth happening now right in front our eyes, as Jeremiah and Ezekiel and other prophets prophesied.
Jeremiah wrote, “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:
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:
36“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.”
From before Me,” declares the LORD,
“Then the offspring of Israel also will cease
From being a nation before Me forever.”
37Thus 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.
“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.
Paul presented a well-explained argument for Israel’s continuity and restoration in Romans 11. The promise of Israel’s restoration is well explained. Their unbelief in Christ opened the door for Gentiles’ acceptance, but God does not reject or cast them out or ignore the promises made with them. They will be restored, and all the covenant, Abrahamic, Davidic, and the new covenant, finds their fulfillment at that time in the near future. Paul ends the discussion by exalting and glorifying God for His amazing wisdom and knowledge in carrying out His plan.
Read below and praise God!
All Israel Will Be Saved
25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, 26 and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written:
“The deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this is my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this is my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”
28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. 30 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, 31 so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. 32 For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
This is a wonderful doxology that came out of Him with heartfelt praise to God, who sums up the history of His plan in a beautiful way, fulfilling all His covenants and promises, without failing none of His words.
Doxology
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”
35 “Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay them?”
36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”
35 “Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay them?”
36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.
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