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Greetings Bob, I have great respect for your witness of our resurrected Lord, Jesus Christ and of our common salvation in Him. I cannot understand why you fail to see that God always had one people. The nation of Israel were Gods People in the Old Testament and since the promise given to them, was fullfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ. The people of God now are all nations of both Jew and Gentile, these are the true Israel of God, the Christian Church. Under the Old Covenant, Israel kept the land conditional on their obedience to God. (Deut 28) We see that they were removed from this land according to scriptures, and Deut. 28 was finally visited upon them in 70 AD. Please consider Bob, Abraham was not looking for a piece of real estate on the mediterranean as God had promised him. He was looking for a city whose builder is God. He looked ahead by faith to that land, we however, are now residents of this city, the New Jerusalem. Does it not make you ponder that Abraham never did own any of the land God had promised to him since he had to buy a piece of this land to bury his dead. To place the present state of Israel, which is apostate and anti-christ according to biblical definition, on some high elevated rank among nations and especially in Gods eyes shows that you to have been deceived as like many other have in these last days. I sincerly pray Bob that you will take the time to ask the Lord to show you what the Bible ALONE clearly teaches. Robert |
