Yes—God continues to watch over Israel because they are His covenant people and He has promised to preserve them as a nation.
Les Feldick teaches that the little nation of Israel has survived the millennia against all odds because they are God's covenant people. Scripture confirms this in Jeremiah 31, where God says Israel will cease to be a nation only if the sun, moon, and stars stop their appointed order. This is why God sovereignly keeps Israel intact and will even protect a remnant during the tribulation.
Jeremiah 31:35-36 — God ties the continuing existence of Israel as a nation to the fixed order of creation, proving He will never cast them off.
Scripture explicitly says God arranged the whole Gentile world around Israel. In Deuteronomy 32:8, He set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the children of Israel. This shows that the nation of Israel has always been central to God's dealings with the human race. In Jeremiah 31:35-36, God gives an unchangeable promise: just as surely as the sun shines by day and the moon and stars by night, the seed of Israel will not cease to be a nation before Him forever. He adds in verse 37 that only if heaven above could be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out would He cast off the seed of Israel. The Bible also shows God actively protecting Israel in the future. Revelation 12:6 says the woman, representing the remnant of Israel, flees into the wilderness where God has prepared a place to feed her for 1,260 days.
Les Feldick teaches that the reason the little nation of Israel has survived centuries of opposition is that they are God's covenant people. He points out that God sovereignly designated Israel as the favored nation, set above all other nations, for a unique role in His program for the whole human race—to bring all nations to a knowledge of Israel's God. Even after Israel rejected and crucified their Messiah, Les insists the nation is still God's covenant people; they have been set aside, but not cast off. He appeals to Jeremiah 31 to show that God is not through with the Jew and will still come back and fulfill the covenant promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Les also teaches that the world cannot comprehend why this little nation of a few million people is the litmus test of the whole operation. Yet God has arranged everything—even national boundaries—around Israel. During the coming tribulation, Les says God will prepare a place for the escaping remnant and feed and protect her for 1,260 days, just as He did in the Exodus from Egypt.
God's promise to preserve Israel is as fixed as creation itself. In Jeremiah 31, God says the seed of Israel will cease from being a nation only if the ordinances of the sun, moon, and stars depart from before Him. Les emphasizes that this promise is tied to the covenant made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and that God will return to fulfill it. He also notes that God sovereignly designated Israel as the favored nation for a unique role in His program for the whole human race.
No. Les acknowledges that within Israel's history there have been generations who passed off the scene lost, and that this is something we cannot reconcile in human thinking. He also teaches that the coming tribulation will be primarily God pouring out His wrath on Christ-rejecting Jews. So God's sovereign watch over the nation is not the same as individual salvation for every Jewish person—it is preservation of the nation for His covenant purposes.
Scripture says God set the boundaries of the nations according to the number of the children of Israel, showing that the entire Gentile world order revolves around Israel. Les says God prepared this favored nation to bring all the other nations to a knowledge of Israel's God. Even now, the nations stumble over Israel and cannot comprehend why this little nation is the litmus test of the whole operation. Until Christ becomes King of kings and Lord of lords, the world will continue to stumble over Jerusalem.
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Israel Survives Because of the Covenant
Les directly answers why God continues to watch over Israel: the little nation has survived millennia against all odds because they are God's covenant people.
Jeremiah 31: The Nation Cannot Cease
Les cites Jeremiah 31 to prove God is not through with Israel—the nation will cease to exist only if the fixed ordinances of creation depart from before God.
Sovereign Designation of Israel
Les explains that God sovereignly set Israel above all nations as the covenant people, preparing them to bring the rest of the world to a knowledge of Israel's God.
Set Aside but Still God's People
Les corrects the idea that God has nothing more to do with the Jew, insisting the little nation is still God's covenant people and is in every way connected to this Book.
God Protects the Remnant in the Tribulation
Les shows that God will actively protect the escaping remnant of Israel during the tribulation, feeding her in a prepared place for 1,260 days.
Israel as the World's Litmus Test
Les teaches that the world cannot comprehend why this little nation of a few million people is the litmus test of the whole operation, but a sovereign God is at work in it.
Everything Revolves Around Israel
Les points to God setting national boundaries according to the number of the children of Israel, demonstrating that everything God has done with the human race revolves around Israel.
Jeremiah 31:35: 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:
This verse shows the fixed created order that God uses as the basis for His enduring promise to Israel.
Jeremiah 31:36: 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.
God's promise that Israel will never cease to be a nation is tied directly to the unchangeable ordinances of creation.
Jeremiah 31:37: Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
God declares there is no condition under which He will cast off the seed of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:8: When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
God arranged the boundaries of the Gentile nations with Israel in view, showing the centrality of this nation in His plan.
Revelation 12:6: And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
During the tribulation, God actively protects and feeds the remnant of Israel for 1,260 days.
No. Les Feldick cites Jeremiah 31, where God says the seed of Israel will only cease to be a nation if the fixed ordinances of the sun, moon, and stars depart from before Him. Since that cannot happen, God will not cast off Israel. Les says the nation is set aside for now, but remains God's covenant people.
Les says the fact that the little nation of Israel has survived millennia against all odds is evidence that they are God's covenant people. The world's repeated attempts to obliterate them have not succeeded because God is sovereignly watching over them.
Yes. During the tribulation, God Himself prepares a place for the escaping remnant and feeds her for 1,260 days, according to Revelation 12:6. Les draws a direct parallel to how God miraculously provided for Israel during the Exodus from Egypt.
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