Christians........? 2?

Matthew 23:38 shows they have been rejected or abandoned by God. Also the destruction of jerasulem by the roman army after they killed Jesus shows God no longer protected them as his people. The Jews constantly disobeyed God. The Jews were disloyal to God and worshiped false gods.( 2 chronicles 24:18). It is very clear that they are no longer his chosen people.

If you truly are a Bible believing CHRISTIAN then you KNOW that God still loves Israel. In the OT, Israel was referred to as "the apple of God's eye." This has not changed. There were two covenants that God made. One with Abraham, but approved ONLY by God. The other was with David.

The Abrahamic covenant was recovenanted with Jacob, Israel. In both instances, neither one has come to pass, fully. We know with God that if He says something will happen, it WILL happen the way He says.

Also, Ezekiel 37, the chapter about dry bones- a reference to Israel- has been completed. In 1948, when israel returned as a country, this chapter became fulfilled. Anyone who says that blessings have been removed from Israel, they are partially correct. Only for a temporary time has God turned away. Rather than turning His wrath on the Church, God uses the Great Tribulation to work on the hearts of the Jews.

What were they chosen for? They were entrusted with the truth and from them was to come the Savior.

Both are complete. The Bible is the truth and written by Jews. Jesus is the Messiah or Savior or Christ and we now have an international religion.

Jesus said about the Jews at that time.

Matt. 23:37, 38: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent forth to her,—how often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks together under her wings! But you people did not want it. Look! Your house is abandoned to you.”

Isaiah 53:1-12 foretold the death of the Messiah ‘to bear the sins of many and to make intercession for the transgressors.’ Daniel 9:24-27 connected the coming of the Messiah and his death with ‘making an end of sin and forgiving iniquity.’ (JP) Both passages show that the Jews were in need of such intercession and forgiveness. Could they expect to reject the Messiah and have the approval of the One who sent him?

Yes we believe that God chose the Hebrew nation (Ex 19:5). Through this nation, God gave them the laws and guidelines for right or holy living.

God knew no nation on earth was good enough to deserve to be called his people or special treasure but he chose Israel in his love and mercy inspite of the wrong this nation had done and will do. They were to represent his way of living and teach his Word. - to be an agent of salvation to the world.

The Vatican's believe Catholic is chosen people of the God.

Every religion on the planet teaches that its god's chosen religion..

God's promise in Jeremiah 31:37 states the truth and God's covenant with them will continue forever.

I have seen some groups that claim to be Christian selecting verses that imply the Jews were abandoned by God after Jesus was crucified, and that Jesus brought others into a new covenant, which supposedly did away with the old covenant made with the nation of Israel at Mount Sinai. But their attempts dismay me because they ignore critically other important verses that give the proper balance.

For example, they might quote Jesus' words in Matthew 23:37-39 about Jerusalem not being willing to be gathered to Christ, so Jesus says, "Look, your house is abandoned to you", followed by His prophecy about the city and its temple being destroyed. That happened in 70 A.D. Some groups then jump to the conclusion that God abandoned the nation utterly (as a nation, even though individual Jews became Christians).

Well, history shows that God abandoned His people on several other occasions in the past, but that did not relinquish His everlasting covenant with the nation. Even though God sometimes punishes His people when they break their terms of that covenant, He never breaks His terms. Time and again, the Bible shows that God has made an everlasting covenant with the nation of Israel. He chose them even when they were a raggle-taggle bunch of nobodies in Egypt, brought them out and made them a nation to bear His Holy Name. Even when they were restored back to God's favour after He had used pagan nations to humiliate them, it was not because they deserved it, but because God's Name was to be honoured.

In Ezekiel 36 God spoke of a future time when He would sprinkle clean water on them, to cleanse them from the filth of their idolatry. "And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations... And when I bring you back, people will say, 'This former wasteland is now like the Garden of Eden... and everyone will know that I am the Lord." This despite the Edomites mistakenly assuming that God's judgment of his people and His abandonment of the Temple meant that his covenant with Israel was no longer in effect. The Edomites had boasted and elevated themselves against Israel, thinking they would replace Israel. Their destruction was thus guaranteed.

Chapter 37 goes on to promise, "I will open your graves of exile and cause you to rise again. Then I will bring you back to the land of Israel... My servant David will be their king and they will have only one shepherd... And my servant David will be their prince forever. And I will make a covenant of peace with them, an EVERLASTING covenant... And when my Temple is among them forever, the nations will know that I am the Lord, who makes Israel holy." Notice that this promise was made long after King David had died. This is a future prophecy.

Well, today we seem to have parallels with the Edomites, in the form of those who say Israel has been cast off as God's chosen people and that now it is themselves who are in the new covenant, replacing Israel. Such arrogance! Jesus said Israel is a little flock and He is their one shepherd - and Jesus has other sheep not of that fold who He will also gather and make into one flock, with Himself as their one shepherd. Revelation depicts 144,000 Israelites who get to Heaven and sing a new song that nobody but they can master. There is also a great crowd of Gentiles in Heaven, also praising God and Christ for their salvation.

And in Romans chapters 9-11 it could not be clearer. "I ask, then, has God rejected his own people, the nation of Israel? Of course not! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham and a member of the tribe of Benjamin. No, God has not rejected his own people, whom he chose from the very beginning... I want you to understand this mystery, dear [Christian] brothers and sisters, so that you will not feel proud about yourselves. Some of the people of Israel have hard hearts, but this will last only until the full number of Gentiles comes to Christ. And so all Israel will be saved, as the scriptures say..."

In view of all of that, I have to declare that it is utterly unchristian to claim that the nation of Israel is not God's chosen nation any more. God does not choose then change His mind and cancel His choice. AiH

The church has become the new Israel.