There's no Scripture specifically saying Jesus abolished circumcision. And there's certainly no Scripture saying Israel or Judah would become extinct.
"But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight;
1 Kings 9:6
Solomon was quoting Moses -
Deut. 28:62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63 Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
Roman 9 comes before
Romans 11 & shows that believing Jews are certainly counted in, with Gentiles also counted as "my people." The idea that God abandoned Israel aka the Jews for 2,000 years because they rejected their Messiah is foreign to Scripture. The idea that God's chosen people could be rejected for 60 generations is surely an insult to the character of a God of love.
No, God didn't abandon the Jews for 1800 + years. He PUNISHED them. Had he ABANDONED them, they woulda gone extinct. No people in history has undergone such persecution for so long & still remained a people. Their punishment culminated in the nazi holocaust, and after that He began to lift it.
Absolutely WRONG!
The generation that rejected Jesus was punished in AD 70. Paul said -
1 Thes. 2:you suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews 15 who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone 16 in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.
That was the punishment of the Jews who rejected their Messiah, and rejected the Gospel offering them free & full forgiveness through Jesus' blood. The OC promises to Israel were fulfilled in & by the LORD Jesus Christ by his life, death, resurrection, ascension & the Gospel. Messianic Israel was born in a day at Pentecost & through the next 35 years many thousands of Jews were added to the
holy nation. Zechariah indicates 1/3 of the nation. Revelation says 144,000.
Even the godless Napoleon Bonaparte, when asked if he believed in miracles, answered without hesitation, "Yes, the Jews."
The fact that some people call themselves "Jews" is of no significance.
Remember, Paul said the Jews could be grafted onto Jesus' "tree" more-easily than a gentile could, as the Jew was the "natural" part of the "tree".
God will restore Israel for three reasons: first, He SAID He would. Second, His promise to Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob. Third, He does not want any man to say "He made a people but couldn't preserve them".
Relevant Scriptures include Ezekiel 36 & 37. These were addressed to the Jews in exile, who had the promise of return in 70 years. God fulfilled that promise, though the returning Jews were rather half hearted about it. The rebuilding of the temple prophecy, including animal sacrifices for sin was partly accomplished, but again half heartedly. A perfect fulfilment was needed, and that's where Jesus comes in.
Israel was restored as a
holy nation according to Peter, but not a physical nation but a spiritual nation comprising believers of all nations, as promised to the Patriarchs.
Acts 3:24 ‘Indeed, beginning with Samuel, all the prophets who have spoken have foretold these days. 25 And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, “Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.” 26 When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.’
1 Peter 2:4 As you come to him, the living Stone – rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him – 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Jesus himself is the fulfilment of the OC promises & prophecies. The focus on the godless nation of Israel is a serious error.
