SID: Well let’s just take the statement you just made. What is the Biblical basis for the covenant of the land with the Jewish people?
SANDY: That traces all the way back to Genesis where God covenants with Abraham. Goes into Genesis 15 where God specifically makes that covenant unconditional, meaning that even if Israel sins God’s covenant with Israel still stands. God reaffirms that covenant in Genesis 17 specifically to Isaac, and not Ishmael. Then reaffirms it—
SID: Who, and by the way, Ishmael is the father of the Arab people. But go ahead.
SANDY: And then reaffirms that covenant specifically to Jacob, and not Esau. And then the Old Covenant as well as New Covenant scriptures continue to ratify or reaffirm the existence of God’s covenant with Israel. That Prophet Jeremiah says “only if the sun stops shining and the stars in the skies fall away and the heavens can be measured will my covenant with Israel cease and will Israel cease to be a nation before Me.”
SID: Okay, but that begs, that begs the question what you’re saying right now, as an attorney you have the right answer—and that is many would say “yes,” but that was a conditional covenant and the Jewish people were disobedient and so therefore they lost out completely. But just that scripture you use, is there any other scripture?
SANDY: Well, there are many. Let’s us jump to the New Covenant because usually we’re talking about a Christian perspective. In the New Covenant, the Apostle Paul in Romans 9 through 11 affirms over and over again, “Has God rejected His people?” No. Romans 11, verse 1. Paul goes on to say that the gifts and call of God are irrevocable. In Romans 9 Paul writes specifically that “Israel’s is” — meaning “still is,” in Greek it “still is” — “Israel’s is the promises and the covenants.” And then there, there are scriptures where Yeshua Himself strongly implies, very strongly implies that God’s covenant with Israel still stands. Acts chapter 1, before He is sent into heaven He affirms that the kingdom of God, as the apostles understand it after 40 days of intense teaching by Messiah himself, the kingdom of God that was promised to Israel, and extends to the nations, is yet to come.
SID: Sandy, give me your understanding of a New Covenant scripture in reference to God’s position on the Jew in Israel at the times of judgment. And hey, if it’s not now, when?
SANDY: In Matthew chapter 25 the disciples have asked Jesus what will be the sign of His coming. And they’re asking Him about the Last Days. Jesus goes on to describe those signs, and then in that context He talks about how when He returns, when Yeshua returns, that He will judge the nations based on how they have treated His “brothers.” Now in the Greek, how we have treated these brothers of His, the word “brothers” refers literally to flesh and blood. Comes from the word “womb.” In context Jesus is talking about how the church, and how the nations, how the church of the nations has treated the Jewish people in the End Times. And He says “when you fed the hungry, when you clothed the naked, when you visit, visited those that were in prison you did it unto Me.” How we treat the Jewish people, Jesus” kinsman according to the flesh, reflects how we will treat, how we treat him, reflects how we will treat Him, and is the basis, a prime basis, for how He will judge the peoples when He returns.
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