He’s Still the Hope of Israel

Is Yahweh still the Hope of Israel? Or has the Church replaced his chosen people?

Yahweh keeps his promises.

³¹ “The days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will make a new promise to Israel and Judah. ³² It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, although I was a husband to them,” declares Yahweh. ³³ “But this is the promise that I will make to Israel after those days,” declares Yahweh: “I will put my teachings inside them, and I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their Elohim, and they will be my people. ³⁴ No longer will each person teach his neighbors or his relatives by saying, ‘Know Yahweh.’ All of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” declares Yahweh, “because I will forgive their wickedness and I will no longer hold their sins against them.” Jeremiah 31:31-34

There are plenty of verses showing that God isn’t done with Israel. For the sake of brevity, I’ll stick with this one. He’s regathered them in the land, and soon he’ll fulfill the promises in verse 33. He’ll write his teaching on their hearts. He’ll be their Elohim.

As Paul said,

So I ask, “Has God rejected his people Israel?” That’s unthinkable!

²⁶ In this way Israel as a whole will be saved, as Scripture says,

“The Savior will come from Zion.
He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
²⁷ My promise to them will be fulfilled
when I take away their sins.”

– Romans 11:1a, 26-27

When, you ask?

When the Jews rejected Jesus, he mourned over the city.

³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. ³⁸ Behold, your house is being left to you desolate! ³⁹ For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, ‘Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord!’” – Matthew 23:37-39

Until! When will the “until” be? At the end of the Tribulation, God’s chosen people will call on him, and he’ll return!

And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn. – Zechariah 12:10

When it’s all said and done, Jerusalem will return to the Son. What a great day!

Their hope is our hope, the only hope. Jesus, our salvation.