Why would you leave that aside? It shows that ALL God’s promises to the nation of Israel were FULFILLED—way back when there was a nation of Israel.
I don't mind taking it up. I just thought we could save some time by having you explain what all the verses about Jesus Christ sitting on the throne of David mean, but we can go the long way, too. Please give me a point by point rebuttal of the verses I will reference.
First, the promise of the land to the seed of Abraham was unconditional. Abraham wasn't even awake when God made the covenant. I submit
Genesis 15 as proof of what I say. If you can read that entire chapter, which recounts the promise of the land to Abraham's seed, and find one condition that is placed on anyone but God, I ask you to quote the relevant verse so we can all see it.
And if ALL God’s promises to the nation of Israel were FULFILLED, what was Jeremiah talking about?
Jeremiah was the last prophet to Judah, which was the southern kingdom of the divided nation of Israel. By the end of Jeremiah's life, Israel had been taken into captivity, and Jerusalem was destroyed, including Solomon's temple. Jews eventually came back from captivity, and a temple was built, but they never had a king again, never had peace again, and they never had their land again. They have been blind, in bondage, and under persecution ever since.
Jeremiah prophesied:
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
That's a promise to Israel, unfulfilled.
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
Israel must be delivered from a time of great persecution, and will then turn as one to serve God, and David their king. David, at this point, has been dead for a few hundred years, so the reference is to Jesus Christ, and the promise is that Israel will have a king again, and that the king will be Jesus Christ.
The promise I would point out in verse 30 is that Israel
shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. That has been the case a few times since the time of Joshua, but can you think of a time since King Solomon when Israel has been in their land, at peace,
and serving Jesus Christ, their king? I can't, either.
Multiple promises to Israel unfulfilled.
By the way, the divided nation of Israel will be united again, and prosperous.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
Promise unfulfilled.
Isaiah says:
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Jesus Christ will rule a faithful Israel and a peaceful world from Jerusalem. This is a promise made to Israel, and to humanity. Unfulfilled.
So maybe, not ALL God’s promises to the nation of Israel were FULFILLED, as you say.
That nation is gone, over, no more. History. Why do you refuse to believe & accept it?
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.
Paul backs this up.
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel
Just because some Talmud-practicing group of people colonized Palestine through ethnic cleansing & genocide, and copied the name “Israel”, that doesn’t mean they have anything to do with the Biblical nation of Israel, which, by the way, do NOT believe Jesus is the Messiah. They are looking for THEIR OWN “Messiah”....the Antichrist.
I'm not unaware that Israel is in an unbelieving state, but read Jeremiah again.
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
God said Israel will again possess the land and he said that HE is the one who makes it happen. You can keep blaming whoever you want to, but the truth is in your Bible.
They are clearly the Synagogue of Satan that JESUS CHRIST warned us about.
It's unclear why anyone would think a warning about "the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not" could be considered a warning against a false nation of Israel, especially since it's written as a warning to first century churches. You yourself just said that Israel doesn't believe Jesus is the Messiah, but these anti-Jews are a
Synagogue. Why would unbelieving Jews be called a synagogue? Why would fake Jews be a threat to the early church? Why would posing as a Jew be considered blasphemy?
No, the Synagogue of Satan, those who say they are Jews, and are not, is made up of people like you, Claire. Apparent believers who think that Israel has been replaced by the Church. They blaspheme and say THEY are Jews, but God says they are NOT.