By the end of the Millennium, all the prophecies and covenants promised to Israel have been fulfilled. Jesus is reigning from Jerusalem. The Israelites – that remnant who were supernaturally protected for the last half of the Tribulation – are living in their land and have multiplied and prospered.
You and I have been blessed by those descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob whether we realize it or not. God’s Glorious and Amazing plan of redemption, the plan that was laid out long before you or I or even our great-great-great grandparents ever drew the first breath of life, is nearing completion.
As of this writing, these things have not come to pass, but if we are to believe God’s promises to Israel, then we know they will happen. God’s Word is not false, nor does it return void. God cannot lie.
“God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?” (Numbers 23:19).
In fact, if we believe the promises God made to us as followers and believers of Jesus Christ – that we are forgiven, redeemed, and have a gift of eternal life – how can we not believe all of God’s promises?
Pastor Charles Swann of Covenant Baptist Church says it well in his series on “The Future of Israel.”
“…if God says He will forgive you and then He doesn’t, or He says I will keep you secure and He doesn’t, or He says I will keep you from my wrath and He doesn’t, it doesn’t matter what He says anymore. Because if He’s not a truthful God and a trustworthy God and a faithful God, what assurance do we have of anything at all? What assurance do we have of any promises of God being kept at all?”1
The question at the end is rhetorical because if we believe in God’s promises for our salvation, how can we not also believe in God’s promises to Israel? Yes, Israel sinned. Yes, Israel disobeyed God. Yes, Israel rejected God’s Own Son. But God never forgot His promises to Israel, and when God makes a promise, He will keep it.
Amir Tsarfati, in his book Israel and the Church: An Israeli Examines God’s Unfolding Plans for His Chosen People, addresses this.
“Israel, as a nation, was far from perfect. The people had a strong propensity for rebellion, idol worship, and ignoring the law of God. There are many Christians these days who will say that because of the nation’s imperfection, God has discarded them. Jesus Christ came to the Jews, but they didn’t want anything to do with Him. “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him” (John 1:11). The Jews rejected Him; therefore, He now rejects them. That’s it, case closed, the Jews have been kicked to the curb in favor of the church. Imagine if these Christians were to apply that same logic to themselves.
Any sin is rebellion against God. How many acts of rebellion and rejection of God’s lordship does it take to get booted out of the family? In the Garden, it took only one sin to separate us from God. I know I have plenty more than one sin to my credit since receiving Christ as my Savior. If sin can cause the Father to permanently reject His children, what percentage of the church could stand before God today?”2
We can allegorize, or make symbolic, any part of Scripture that we want, but Scripture tells us:
“Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name: ‘Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me’” (Jeremiah 31:35-36).
We have to understand and accept that if the promises made to us as Christians are true, then so are the promises made to Israel. One does not cancel out the other.
Is God done with Israel? Paul answers the question.
“I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. God did not reject His people whom He foreknew” (Romans 11:1-2a).
Today, as I write these words, God is calling out to those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. If you haven’t already answered, please hear the knocking on the door.
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne” (Revelation 3:20-21).
God gave His covenants to Israel, and they were meant to be forever – for all eternity. Just as we now have faith in the promises made to us as Christians, Israel can have faith in God’s promises to them. Just as we know, one day we can “sit with Me on My throne,” Israel can know those promises made to them in the Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants will all be fulfilled.
“Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful” (Hebrews 10:23).
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This article is an excerpt from Has God Cast Away Israel? by Susan Mouw, pub 11/2025.
1 “The Future of Israel: An Introduction,” Pastor Charles Swann, March 22, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnsbB4V2s3I
2 Israel and the Church: An Israeli Examines God’s Unfolding Plans for His Chosen People, Amir Tsarfati, April 6, 2021, Harvest House Publishers, pg 18-19
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