In 2000 B.C. God called Abraham and entered in a COVENANT relationship with him and his seed. He promised Abraham many things including the world, great material and spiritual blessings, to be the leader among the nations, to loan to many nations and borrow from none, and that ultimately all the families of the earth would be blessed through Abraham and his seed. He also said that this covenant would last for a thousand generations (40,000 years) Psalms 105:8, 9.

However, things did not go well. First Jacob-Israel (Abraham’s grandson) went into Egypt and in a few generations his descendants were slaves of the Egyptians. God delivered them from Egypt through a series of outstanding miracles – the ten plagues which finally softened Pharaoh to the point that he let the Israelites go, the opening up of the Red Sea so that 3 million Israelites could pass over on dry ground, and the closing of the Red Sea so that all of Pharaoh’s army were destroyed (Pharaoh changed his mind almost as soon as Israel left and began to pursue them to force them back). Israel having witnessed all of these miracles and many more, began to complain and murmur almost immediately. Their rebellion against God almost drove Moses to distraction and caused him to sin by striking the rock, an action that prevented Moses to enter into the promised land. Throughout 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, God fed, clothed, housed, led, kept them healthy and blessed them abundantly in every conceivable way. That 40 years in the wilderness was a continuous series of miracles yet the people rebelled, grumbled, complained and murmured almost constantly. Nevertheless, God did not abandon them but led their offspring into the land of Canaan, caused them to triumph over their enemies in the land, and blessed them with the abundance of heaven above and the earth beneath. He gave them 80 years of greatness and national blessing under David and Solomon. After Solomon died the kingdom was split into 2 kingdoms – 10 tribed Israel in the north and 2 tribed Judah in the south. In 721 B.C. Israel was taken into Assyrian captivity along with all of Judah except the city of Jerusalem (Judah went into Assyria 8 years after Israel). God said at this point that 10 tribed Israel was divorced BUT 2 tribed Judah WAS NOT divorced, at this time there were only a few thousand of the remnant of Judah left in Jerusalem. They remained here for over 100 years until they were carried into Babylon in 604 B.C. They were in Babylon for 70 years then the return to Jerusalem began under Ezra and “Nehemiah”. This remnant remained here until the time of Christ. At this point, as a nation, they rejected Jesus Christ as their Savior and King. In 70 A.D. the “Jewish” nation was destroyed by Titus and in answer to Jeremiah’s prophecy in chapter 19, this bottle (the so-called Jewish nation) was destroyed “is broken and cannot be mended.”

To modern theologins, God has had it by this time and has said “scrap that plan about Israel, I am going to get me a church and they will be SPIRITUAL ISRAEL. I have had it with that bunch of regraded, people – those stiff-necked, stiff-hearted, stiff-headed Israelites. I give up on them, no one could blame me for that – it is obvious that they are not worth the least of the miracles and blessings that I have poured out upon them.” Let’s face it, no one could blame God for giving up on the Israelites but he didn’t, it is only the preachers, ministers, missionaries and most Christians who have given up on them! BUT GOD DOES NOT GIVE UP ON ANYTHING. HE DOES NOT VIOLATE HIS OWN WORD.

In spite of the fact that God called Abraham, made an everlasting covenant with him, promised all of the above-mentioned things plus many more – most of the preachers and evangelists of the present day loudly proclaim that God no longer is concerned with nations including Israel, that all of this belongs to the past, is a part of the OLD TESTAMENT and therefore no longer valid. What kind of brazen arrogance is responsible for such utterances is hard to comprehend. Nevertheless, such statements are made constantly by ministers of the gospel. If you don’t believe this, listen for a while to any Christian radio or TV station.

It would seem quite plain that either GOD IS A LIAR or GOD TELLS THE TRUTH meaning that he certainly is still in covenant relationship with the people of Israel. Let us look at the record – the Bible.

“The Lord did not set His love upon you and choose you, because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the fewest of all people: But because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.” (Deuteronomy 7:7, 8)