Is it not the case they lost that status after rejecting the New Covenant and your Lord Jesus Christ? Isn't it ironic those who keep telling you they are chosen are the Jews themselves, along with all their Christian-Zionist preachers? Did Christ not say: "For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him."?
If you believe God rejected the Jews then you don't understand the true character of God. God made a covenant with the nation of Israel. A covenant is not the same thing as a contract. A contract becomes null and void if either side does not hold up their end of the contract. A covenant is NOT dependent on the other side meeting any conditions. When God made a covenant with Israel he made the covenant with himself. For God to break the covenant would be contrary to his nature. The actual land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem is an integral part of the covenant.
I'm very thankful that God is a covenant God and not a contract God. If the promises of God and my hope of salvation and redemption were dependent on me keeping the terms of a contract, I would be in big trouble. God's faithfulness to the Covenant he established with Israel, despite their unbelief and rejection of the Messiah, is my assurance that he will keep his covenant promises with me.
Me saying I support Israel does not mean I condone everything the state of Israel does. I don't condone many of things the United States does, but I still love and support the people of the United States. I still love the ideas that this country was founded on and I love the land and the people. Because God commands me to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and bless the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, I support the nation of Israel, while praying that God would open their eyes to see they have rejected the Messiah he sent. I pray that they would put their trust in God and not in the IDF or the United States or the UN.
The United States military has done just as many horrible things as the IDF has across the world. But if terrorists attacked people in the United States would you not recognize the US militaries right to defend our country?
Israel is in a difficult situation. Israel has always supported a two state solution and has always welcomed Arab's to be part of their country. There are many non-Jew Arabs who are integral parts of Israel society and government. It is the Palestinians that rejected a two state solution right from the beginning and continue to reject it today. Israel is a tiny sliver of land dwarfed by numerous Arab-Muslim nations. Few of those nations have offered refuge to the Palestinians that don't want to be part of Israel or except a two state solution. Instead most of them openly state their goal is the destruction of Israel. A two state solution or plan to live in peace with Israel has never been a goal of Palestinians. How can you negotiate with someone who's primary goal is your destruction?
The Bible says that Israel will be a burdensome stone to all the nations, so I expect that I will be in a minority when I support Israel. But the Bible tells me to support Israel and pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Romans 11
I ask then:
Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel: 3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”[
a]? 4 And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”[
b] 5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 6
And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
7 What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, 8 as it is written:
“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that could not see
and ears that could not hear,
to this very day.”[
c]
9 And David says:
“May their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
10 May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
and their backs be bent forever.”[
d]
11 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. 12 But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!
13 I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry 14 in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. 15
For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16 If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18 do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” 20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
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[e] 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[f] my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”[g]
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[
h] 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.
