What guarantee does Jeremiah 31 give that Israel will never cease to be a nation?
Jeremiah 31 guarantees Israel’s national permanence by tying it to the fixed ordinances of creation: only if the sun, moon, and stars cease before God, or heaven can be measured and earth’s foundations searched out, would Israel cease as a nation. Since those cannot happen, God will never cast off Israel’s seed.
Les explains that Jeremiah 31:35-36 answers those who claim the nation of Israel has nothing to do with Scripture or that God is all through with the Jew. The passage identifies the Lord as the Creator who gives the sun for light by day and the ordinances of the moon and stars for light by night, the Lord of hosts. God says that if those ordinances, the laws of nature and science, depart from before Him, then the seed of Israel would also cease from being a nation before Him forever. He adds that if heaven above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then He would cast off the seed of Israel for all they have done. Since those things cannot be done, God will never cast aside Israel. Les stresses that God is not through with His chosen nation Israel, even though they rejected and crucified their Messiah, and that the tribulation is primarily God dealing with Israel, not the church.
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
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What does Jeremiah 31:35-36 mean about Israel ceasing to be a nation?
According to Jeremiah 31:35-36, Israel will remain a nation before God forever because her continuance is tied to the fixed ordinances of nature: only if the laws of the sun, moon, and stars depart, or heaven can be measured and the earth's foundations searched out, would God cast off the seed of Israel.
Will God ever cast aside Israel and be done with his chosen nation?
It is impossible for God to ever cast aside Israel, so no one should believe for a minute that God is through with his chosen nation Israel.