God’s Covenant With Israel

The Miraculous Preservation Of The Jewish People

Consider the miracle of Israel’s preservation:

Having been scattered for over 2,000 years, yet she remained a separate, identifiable people. When was the last time you saw a Hittite, or a Girgashite, an Amalekite, or any of the other “ites” who were contemporary with ancient Israel? It is an utter astonishment that despite all the odds, and the progroms and persecutions against her during those 2,000 years, Israel remained a people. Usually when a people are conquered by another country, they assimilate into that country. After a few generations they are totally assimilated. My forefathers were from France. I was born in America and there is no trace of France in me. I don’t speak French and I have no interest in France. This is the natural progression of a people after a few generations in another land.

Israel has survived assimilation, pogroms, crusades, the Holocaust, and the many and continuous efforts of Satan to do away with her during two millenia. Israel has survived because the covenants God made with her are eternal.

* “He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded, for a thousand generations, the covenant which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac, and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an EVERLASTING COVENANT, saying, ‘To you I will give the land of Canaan as the allotment of your inheritance…”’
Psalms 105:8-10

Even when they were banished in judgment, the Lord remembered his covenants to their fathers and he has brought them back to their land.

As the Lord spoke through Moses:

* “Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I WILL NOT CAST THEM AWAY, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. But for their sake I WILL REMEMBER THE COVENANT of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the Lord.” Leviticus 26:44-45

The Topics:

Was The Land Covenant Conditional?

When God made this covenant did he state that it is conditional?

The Judicial Captivities Of The Jewish People

Though the covenant is not conditional, possession depends on obedience.

The Restoration

Israel has endured two captivities but God is now in the process of restoring her.

The Miraculous Preservation Of Israel

How has Israel remained a people although spread across the whole world, in a diaspora of 2,000 years?

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