God has NOT abandoned or changed His eternal covenants!

My Comment:

There is much confusion and misunderstanding about what the Bible teaches about the future of the nation of Israel. In a discussion about the mistaken views of many Reformed “Covenant Theologians” I posted the following comment in reply to a comment of one of my highly esteemed good friends on Facebook about this subject as reflected in Romans chapter 11:

To set aside, even if only “for the moment,” the very relevant and pertinent message of Romans 11 is to dodge the BIBLICAL basis for asserting the fact that present day national Israel is included in God’s plan. To argue that there are “so many ways” Romans 11 has been interpreted fails to account for the fact that there are rules of interpretation that rather readily dismiss mistaken interpretations for what they are: misreadings of the plainly declared covenant promises in the Bible.

Lev 26:42  Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

Lev 26:44  And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Lev 26:45  But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

Mal 3:6  For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Rom 11:26  And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

[My note on “all Israel” in the Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury: “all Israel. This is a direct reference to the future conversion of the Jews in the land of Israel, and has nothing to do with “spiritual Israel” or the church in this age, as proven by Paul’s citation of Messianic prophecy later in this verse from Isa 59:19, 20.”]

Rom 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. (ESV)

A careful study of the cross references given for each of these passages will fully confirm the correct interpretation of these irrevocable Covenant promises to the nation of Israel which in our present day continue in a state of unfulfillment as affirmed by Stephen in Acts 7:4, 5.

Act 7:4 Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.
Act 7:5 Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.

[My note on Acts 7:5 from my Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury:

him. The point is, that the promise was made personally to Abraham that he would himself inherit the promised land, but Abraham himself never personally possessed the land God promised to him. It is for this reason that God, who cannot lie, must resurrect Abraham and bring him personally into the promised land in order for the Abrahamic Covenant to be fulfilled. How many Bible scholars have failed to notice the explicit statement of Scripture here, which declares that Abraham did not receive the inheritance, and have taught the opposite, and worse, have spiritualized and transformed the covenants into something they were never meant to be, taking to themselves or the church the blessings promised to Abraham and the Jews, but very carefully leaving the curses to Israel, literally interpreted at that (see related notes at **Jos 21:43 note. **1Ki 4:21 note. Isa 60:21 note. Jer 33:21 note). +*Mat 8:11; +*Mat 8:12, +*Rom 4:13.]

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