Israel

"Has God rejected his people?" Romans 11:1.

By no means! (Wait - what people are we talking about here? Jews. Israel.) God has not rejected his people whom he knew from times past. God has always kept a remnant of these folks by his grace. Throughout the centuries before Christ (including Christ himself!) and in the 2000 years since Christ to the present, God has kept the Jews as a people, though scattered throughout the world. We make no mistake about that. Nor do we make a mistake about this: the modern nation of Israel in the mideast today does not exist in answer to the old covenant. The old covenant ended. The only covenant in force today is the new one in Christ. God expects Jews and gentiles alike to come to faith/trust in Christ and so be saved. New covenant. New testament. New will.

We meet with a brother or sister today participating together in the Israel of God (not in the Israel of the world). And together, we give thanks to God anticipating Christ's return to collect all his people, Jew and gentile.