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Answers :
Read
Rom 11:1 for starters, then Jer.31:35-36
God's
covenant with Abraham (Gen 12:1-3) which is the foundation
covenant for the Jewish people is an unconditional covenant.
Abraham was asleep when God cut the covenant) that's why we
have Heb 6:13-18. God effectively made the covenant with Jesus
according to Gal 3:16.
 From
Bruce Garbutt,
Australian National Director for the
International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem
Visit their
website for more information
Unfortunately,
some segments of the Church have propagated the myth that
God has long finished with the Jews, which has been fueled
more in anti-Semitic bias than biblical accuracy. God has
repeatedly punished his people over the ages for breaking
faith with Him, but if anyone can find me chapter and verse
that God has irrevocably rejected the Jewish people, I would
like to know about it! In the meanwhile, I would like to suggest
an honest study of Jeremiah 31:35-37; Ezekiel 36:22-38 and
innumerable related texts in the Old Testament; and Chapters
9, 10 and 11 of Romans in the New Testament, with particular
notice of Romans 11:25-29. It may come as a surprise to some,
that not all theologians past and present have been scrupulously
honest, nor have all been free of the tentacles of anti-Semitism.
Beyond
the above Scriptures, my book "Where
Is the Body?" is a systematic study with a myriad more
prophetic Scriptures that clarify that Israel's grand jubilee
is yet to come -- and that more likely sooner rather than
later given the current evolvement of events in the Middle
East.
 This
answer was sent to us from Victor Schlatter, Director
of South Pacific
Island Ministries
""In
that day I will restore David's fallen tent. I will repair
its broken places, restore its ruins, and build it as it used
to be, so that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all
the nations that bear My Name," declares the Lord, Who will
do these things. "The days are coming," declares the Lord,
"when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the
planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from
the mountains and flow from all the hills. I will bring back
my exiled people, Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities
and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their
wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant
Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from
the land I have given them." Amos 9:11-15.
The
Restoration of Israel is happening in our day and if we really
want to hear what God is purposing for these days in which
we live, we must feel His heartbeat for Israel and the Jewish
people. A gospel without Jesus' brothers, the Jews, is an
incomplete gospel and sadly, too much of the Church has an
incomplete gospel..."
 This
quote comes from Jesma O'hara's online study entitled : "The
Day of Restoration for Israel and the Church"-
Read the full study / Visit
the Hesed Website
And
you haven't?
Has
God finished with the Christian Church because of her "backsliding"
and appalling history?
Heaven
forbid! Likewise, despite Israel’s backslidings, God's covenant
promises to the Jewish people will never be revoked, and this
includes his eternal covenant with them as a people and their
eternal possession of their land.
Answer
from David Soakell of Christian
Friends of Israel, UK
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