We have a way of considering that I believe is not biblically precise. It is about biblical prophecy and it includes God and Israel and finish time indicators.
What this way of considering says is that God nevertheless owes Israel a variety of debt, and he need to stand fantastic on his covenant with Israel. He need to guard her, and give her all the land that he promised to give her that she has under no circumstances received. I covered this problem in an earlier write-up. God has offered Israel all the land he promised her. He owes her practically nothing (Josh 21:43-45).
Is This the Finish Instances? ” What Are the Finish Time Indicators?
This is the query on a lot of people’s minds: “Is this the finish occasions?” Most eyes turn toward Israel for indicators of the answer. I am not certain if it really is the finish occasions or not, but I know they come closer each and every year.
The challenge is that most individuals appear at the newspaper headlines to make a decision if they believe if this is the finish occasions or not ” believing what ever their preferred finish-time guru says are ‘the finish time indicators.’ God says never appear to the newspaper, but to him and his word.
The History of Israel: Israel and God
Israel has been involved in indicators in this globe for numerous, numerous hundreds of years. And these indicators had a lot to do with the land (the genuine estate on the Mediterranean) that Israel occupies. A lot of the Old Testament was about this.
God generally bargains with Israel by way of covenant. This was a two-way covenant (or what we lawyers contact a ‘bilateral covenant’). As extended as Israel kept up her finish of the covenant, God kept up his finish. He told Israel they had to obey him and maintain his law. More than numerous occasions the Israelis refused, but God forgave them. He even instituted an animal sacrifice program to cover them when they did not obey.
But the truth is that Israel kept disobeying ” more than and more than and more than once more. Lastly God permitted them to be conquered and sent into exile to Assyria and Babylon ” and later dominated by Greece and the Romans.
In the finish, Israel crucified God’s only Son Jesus, and he washed his hands of them. We see numerous stories about this in the New Testament ” the parable of the Vineyard owner in Matthew 21, and the barren fig tree in Luke 21, and the wicked Pharisees of Matthew 23 to name a couple of.
The Old Covenant vs. the New Covenant
Hebrews shows us how the cross of Jesus abolished the Old Covenant, and how the New Covenant established in its location. God was so thorough in destroy the methods of the Old Covenant that he even permitted the Romans to destroy Jerusalem, and the Jewish temple in 70 A.D. Absolutely nothing was left. The Jews had fulfilled their objective. They had brought the Messiah, whom we contact Jesus Christ, into the globe. Their mission was full. The truth that Israel rejected the Messiah is not an problem.
Does This Imply Israel Is Rejected from the Covenant of God? No! Definitely not! God under no circumstances rejects any person. He is generally forgiving, loving and accepting. The truth that the Jews rejected him numerous occasions more than hundreds of years does not matter to God. He would get them to himself in a heartbeat, just like the parable of the prodigal son says.
But they need to come to him on the basis of the NEW Covenant, and not their OLD Covenant. The Old has been abolished. Only the New Covenant in the blood of Jesus stands. God’s arms are nevertheless open to the Jews. But they need to come to him like any person else in the globe: by way of the completed perform of Jesus. God and the Jews are nevertheless an ‘item,’ but only as is God and any other individuals in the globe.
Due to the fact most Jews disinherit God, he disinherits them. Paul stated that his heart-cry to God was that his Jewish individuals may be saved (Rom 10:1). He stated they had a zeal for God, but it wasn’t according to know-how of God, and what he was undertaking in Jesus Christ (Rom 10:2). Nonetheless clinging to the Old Covenant methods, they became topic of the curse Paul talks about (Gal 3:10).
God and Israel: “Watch Israel for the Finish Instances Indicators”
This is the cry of the Christian church, and numerous secular individuals in the globe. I never share this view. So numerous believe that God created Israel to be an independent nation once more in 1948, and he is once more functioning by way of her. I believe this perform was all political ” the perform of the U.S and the U.N.
I never think God owes Israel 1 point nowadays. And I never think God is applying the history of Israel as an finish time sign. God wanted to prosper the Jews and have them reveal him to the globe much more than something (Deut 28:63-67). But they abandoned God numerous occasions. God sought following them numerous occasions, but they lastly murdered his Son to get him off their back.
The Jews have been stewards of a connection with God that they chose not to be stewards of. We have the similar selection nowadays. Our New Covenant is the similar as the Old in 1 way: it is nevertheless a bilateral covenant with God. But we no longer have to obey the law to be righteous with God (Deut 6:25). We just need to think his New Covenant gospel (Mk 1:15, Rom 5:17, John 6:29, Heb 4:2, and so forth.) This applies to Jews as well.
Is This the Finish Instances?
Perhaps, but it does not have something to do with a piece of genuine estate on the Mediterranean known as Israel. It has to do with us becoming in covenant with God on his terms. The Jews chose not to accept his terms. We have the similar selection. The 12 spies voted to think their eyes and senses much more than they did God. The outcome was that they prevented ALL the individuals from getting into the promised land.
Unbelief was a tragic selection for the Jews. It is also a tragic selection for us. God desires us searching to him, and not searching to Israel for the answers to our queries.
