The Chosen People:
The Jews Never Utterly Cut Off
(so, not replaced by
the Church!)
Lv 26:44,45
44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I
will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly,
and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;
45 but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors,
whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that
I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”
Dt 4:31
for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy
you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
1Kg 11:39
I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever.
2Kg 14:27
Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under
the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
Ps 89:30-37
30 If his children forsake my law,
and don’t walk in my ordinances;
31 if they break my statutes,
and don’t keep my commandments;
32 then I will punish their sin with the rod,
and their iniquity with stripes.
33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him,
nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
34 I will not break my covenant,
nor alter what my lips have uttered.
35 Once have I sworn by my holiness,
I will not lie to David.
36 His seed will endure forever,
his throne like the sun before me.
37 It will be established forever like the moon,
the faithful witness in the sky.”
Ps 94:14
For Yahweh won’t reject his people,
neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Is 48:9-11
9 For my name’s sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain
for you, that I not cut you off.
10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the
furnace of affliction.
11 For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should my name
be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.
Is 49:14-16
14 But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on
the son of her womb? yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are
continually before me.
Is 54:7-10
7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather
you.
8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting
loving kindness will I have mercy on you, says Yahweh your Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the
waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not
be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving
kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be
removed, says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Jr 4:27
For thus says Yahweh, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not
make a full end.
Jr 5:10,18
10 Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don’t make a full end: take
away her branches; for they are not Yahweh’s.
18 But even in those days, says Yahweh, I will not make a full end with you.
Jr 30:11
For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of all
the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you;
but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.
Jr 31:33-37
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after
those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their
heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his
brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them
to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity,
and their sin will I remember no more.
35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of
the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that
its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:
36 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then
the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
37 Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations
of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed
of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.
Jr 32:37-42
37 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them
in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them
again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
38 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever,
for the good of them, and of their children after them:
40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn
away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their
hearts, that they may not depart from me.
41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this
land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
42 For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great evil on this
people, so will I bring on them all the good that I have promised them.
Jr 33:19-26
19 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
20 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my
covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
21 then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he
shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests,
my ministers.
22 As the army of the sky can’t be numbered, neither the sand of the sea
measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who
minister to me.
23 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Don’t you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families
which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my
people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
25 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I
have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant,
so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have
mercy on them.
Jr 46:28
Don’t be afraid you, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I am with you: for I
will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will
not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in
no way leave you unpunished.
Jr 51:5
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Armies;
though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
Lm 3:31,32
31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32 For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the
multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Ezk 11:13-21
13 It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then
fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will
you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
14 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
15 Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and
all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of
Jerusalem have said, Get you far from Yahweh; to us is this land given for a
possession.
16 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off
among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet
will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they are
come.
17 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples,
and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will
give you the land of Israel.
18 They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of
it and all its abominations from there.
19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I
will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of
flesh;
20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and
they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezk 16:60-63
60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth,
and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
61 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive
your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them
to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
62 I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh;
63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more,
because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the
Lord Yahweh.
Ezk 36:16-38
16 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
17 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it
by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of
a woman in her impurity.
18 Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured
out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;
19 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the
countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
20 When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name;
in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out
of his land.
21 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned
among the nations, where they went.
22 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don’t do this
for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned
among the nations, where you went.
23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations,
which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I
am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their
eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the
countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your
filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and
I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart
of flesh.
27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and
you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my
people, and I will be your God.
29 I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and
will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
30 I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that
you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
31 Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good;
and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for
your abominations.
32 Nor for your sake do I this, says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you:
be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.
33 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from all your
iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall
be built.
34 The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in
the sight of all who passed by.
35 They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of
Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.
36 Then the nations that are left around you shall know that I, Yahweh, have
built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have
spoken it, and I will do it.
37 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the
house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
38 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed
feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh.
Hs 11:8,9
8 “How can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I make you like Zeboiim?
My heart is turned within me,
my compassion is aroused.
9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger.
I will not return to destroy Ephraim:
for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you;
and I will not come in wrath.
Am 9:8,9
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will
destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly
destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.
9 “For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all
the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall
on the earth.
Mc 7:8,9,18-20
8 Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy.
When I fall, I will arise.
When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh,
because I have sinned against him,
until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me.
He will bring me forth to the light.
I will see his righteousness.
18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,
and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his
heritage?
He doesn’t retain his anger forever,
because he delights in loving kindness.
19 He will again have compassion on us.
He will tread our iniquities under foot;
and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
20 You will give truth to Jacob,
and mercy to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Ml 3:6
6 “For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not
consumed.
Rm
11:1-5,11,15-18,23-26,29-32
1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an
Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what
the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars;
and I am left alone, and they seek my life.”
4 But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men,
who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the
election of grace.
11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be!
But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to
jealousy.
15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would
their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the
branches.
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive,
were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the
root and of the richness of the olive tree;
18 don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who
support the root, but the root supports you.
23 also, if they don’t continue
in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in
again.
24 For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and
were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more
will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own
olive tree?
25 For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that
you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened
to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
26 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written,
“There will come out of Zion the Deliverer,
and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.