has god rejected his people the isralites?

Has God Rejected His People the Israelites?

Some people believe in Replacement Theology that the church has replaced the Jews as his chosen people. I don’t know what they base their theology on but I base my belief on the Holy Bible.. I am using the NIV version of the Bible as it is much easier to read and understand.

Romans 11:1 clearly says that God has not rejected His people, the Jews. Verse 2 also clearly says that “God did not reject his people whom he foreknew.” He foreknew them as God called Abraham out of his country, Ur of the Chaldeans which is southwest of Babylon, to go to a country that He would show him, Genesis 12:1. In Romans 4:1, Abraham is called “our forefather”, confirming that the Jews are his chosen people, as the whole Bible is about the Jews.

The “mystery” may be what confuses people as to why God did abandon the Jews for a season for his purpose in Romans 11. To my way of thinking God should have abandoned them as they are described as a stiff-necked people in many places in the Old Testament, and they have generally gone their own way of doing their own thing. You and I do the same thing, go our own way but they saw the miracles of them being delivered from the bondage of slavery in Egypt and the Red Sea parting on their journey to the promised land, etc. They were told not to mingle with the people of the surrounding nations when they entered Israel. What did they do? They mingled with them, inquired of their religion and took wives of them. They wanted a king which God allowed them to have. They were ok if the king was a good king. But if the king was a bad king, did not follow God’s laws, they did the same. The Book of Judges tells about these sad days when they came even worse each time a bad king came on the scene.

Back to Romans 11, verse 11 is the crux of his purpose: “Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.” Verse 12 says: “But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!” In order for the Jews to have greater riches, then they must surely have not been abandoned. Verse 29 says “For God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.” God called the Jews, people descended from Abraham to be his people. We Gentiles, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted into God’s family, so we do not have anything to boast about that we are God’s special people. Branches, the Jews, were broken off because of unbelief so we Gentiles could be grafted in. In verses 25 and 26 the “mystery” is further explained: “ . . . I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you nay not be conceited. Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob, and this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

This is the scripture that no commentator mentions when talking about the last days known as “in that day” in the Bible. I think it is so important as it tells what the Jewish Nation will do right after Armageddon. It is from Zechariah 12:9-13:1; On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem. And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great, like the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves; the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of the house of Shimel and their wives, and all the rest of the clans and their wives. On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.”

The Lord will pour out on the nation of Israel grace {unmerited favor}, and supplication (a humble request, prayer, petition, etc.). And they will weep bitterly as they realize they put Him to death. But the Lord will provide a cleansing for their sin and impurity.

Hallelujah! God did not abandon His people, the Jews. In His Sovereign Plan He planned for the Jews’s transgression to bring about the salvation of we the Gentiles.

Good Day to you From the Merry Heart.