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6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
they shall prosper that love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls,
and prosperity within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions' sakes,
I will now say, Peace be within thee.
9 Because of the house of the Lord our God
I will seek thy good.
What is the fate of embattled Israel?
How shall Gentiles look upon GOD's chosen nation?
As born again, I can only look to the Bible.
Here are GOD's promises for Israel:
Genesis 12:1-3
King James Version
12 Now the Lord had said unto Abram,
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,
and from thy father's house, unto a land
that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation,
and I will bless thee, and make thy name great;
and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,
and curse him that curseth thee:
and in thee shall all families of the earth
be blessed.
Exodus 14:14
King James Version
14 The Lord shall fight for you,
and ye shall hold your peace.
Numbers 24:8-9
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8 God brought him forth out of Egypt;
he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn:
he shall eat up the nations his enemies,
and shall break their bones,
and pierce them through with his arrows.
9 He couched, he lay down as a lion,
and as a great lion: who shall stir him up?
Blessed is he that blesseth thee,
and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Deuteronomy 28:1-2
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28 And it shall come to pass,
if thou shalt hearken diligently
unto the voice of the Lord thy God,
to observe and to do all his commandments
which I command thee this day,
that the Lord thy God will set thee on high
above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee,
and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken
unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 30:7
King James Version
7 And the Lord thy God
will put all these curses upon thine enemies,
and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
Isaiah 41:10-16
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10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee;
yea, I will help thee;
yea, I will uphold thee
with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 Behold,
all they that were incensed against thee
shall be ashamed and confounded:
they shall be as nothing;
and they that strive with thee shall perish.
12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them,
even them that contended with thee:
they that war against thee shall be as nothing,
and as a thing of nought.
13 For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand,
saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel;
I will help thee, saith the Lord,
and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold,
I will make thee
a new sharp threshing instrument
having teeth:
thou shalt thresh the mountains,
and beat them small,
and shalt make the hills as chaff.
16 Thou shalt fan them,
and the wind shall carry them away,
and the whirlwind shall scatter them:
and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord,
and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 43:1
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43 But now thus saith the Lord
that created thee, O Jacob,
and he that formed thee, O Israel,
Fear not:
for I have redeemed thee,
I have called thee by thy name;
thou art mine.
Isaiah 44:1-2
King James Version
44 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant;
and Israel, whom I have chosen:
2 Thus saith the Lord that made thee,
and formed thee from the womb,
which will help thee;
Fear not, O Jacob, my servant;
and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 44:21-24
King James Version
21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel;
for thou art my servant:
I have formed thee;
thou art my servant:
O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud,
thy transgressions,
and, as a cloud, thy sins:
return unto me;
for I have redeemed thee.
23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it:
shout, ye lower parts of the earth:
break forth into singing, ye mountains,
O forest, and every tree therein:
for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob,
and glorified himself in Israel.
24 Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer,
and he that formed thee from the womb,
I am the Lord that maketh all things;
that stretcheth forth the heavens alone;
that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Isaiah 60:12
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12 For the nation and kingdom
that will not serve thee shall perish;
yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Joel 3:1-2
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3 For, behold,
in those days, and in that time,
when I shall bring again the captivity
of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will also gather all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat,
and will plead with them there for my people
and for my heritage Israel,
whom they have scattered among the nations,
and parted my land.
Joel 3:9-14
King James Version
9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles;
Prepare war, wake up the mighty men,
let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords
and your pruninghooks into spears:
let the weak say, I am strong.
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen,
and gather yourselves together round about:
thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.
12 Let the heathen be wakened,
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat:
for there will I sit to judge
all the heathen round about.
13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe:
come, get you down; for the press is full,
the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision:
for the day of the Lord is near
in the valley of decision.
Joel 3:15-21
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15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened,
and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
16 The Lord also shall roar out of Zion,
and utter his voice from Jerusalem;
and the heavens and the earth shall shake:
but the Lord will be the hope of his people,
and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God
dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain:
then shall Jerusalem be holy,
and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the mountains shall drop down new wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters,
and a fountain shall come forth
out of the house of the Lord,
and shall water the valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt shall be a desolation,
and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness,
for the violence against the children of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall dwell for ever,
and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed:
for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.
Zechariah 2:8-13
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8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts;
After the glory hath he sent me
unto the nations which spoiled you:
for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
9 For, behold,
I will shake mine hand upon them,
and they shall be a spoil to their servants:
and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me.
10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion:
for, lo, I come,
and I will dwell in the midst of thee,
saith the Lord.
11 And many nations shall be joined to the Lord
in that day, and shall be my people:
and I will dwell in the midst of thee,
and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts
hath sent me unto thee.
12 And the Lord shall inherit Judah
his portion in the holy land,
and shall choose Jerusalem again.
13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord:
for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
Zechariah 12:1-3
King James Version
12 The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel,
saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens,
and layeth the foundation of the earth,
and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold,
I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling
unto all the people round about,
when they shall be in the siege both against Judah
and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem
a burdensome stone for all people:
all that burden themselves with it
shall be cut in pieces,
though all the people of the earth
be gathered together against it.
Malachi 3:6
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6 For I am the Lord, I change not;
therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Romans 11:1-5
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11 I say then, Hath God cast away his people?
God forbid. For I also am an Israelite,
of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people
which he foreknew.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias?
how he maketh intercession to God
against Israel saying,
3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets,
and digged down thine altars;
and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the answer of God unto him?
I have reserved to myself seven thousand men,
who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time also
there is a remnant
according to the election of grace.
Romans 11:11-36
King James Version
11 I say then,
Have they stumbled that they should fall?
God forbid: but rather through their fall
salvation is come unto the Gentiles,
for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world,
and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles;
how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles,
inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles,
I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation
them which are my flesh,
and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be
the reconciling of the world,
what shall the receiving of them be,
but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy:
and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off,
and thou, being a wild olive tree,
wert grafted in among them, and with them
partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches.
But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root,
but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then,
The branches were broken off,
that I might be grafted in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off,
and thou standest by faith.
Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches,
take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God:
on them which fell, severity;
but toward thee, goodness,
if thou continue in his goodness:
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be grafted in:
for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree
which is wild by nature,
and wert grafted
contrary to nature into a good olive tree:
how much more shall these,
which be the natural branches,
be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren,
that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits;
that blindness in part is happened to Israel,
until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved:
as it is written,
There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer,
and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them,
when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel,
they are enemies for your sakes:
but as touching the election,
they are beloved for the father's sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God
are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times past have not believed God,
yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed,
that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief,
that he might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches
both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
how unsearchable are his judgments,
and his ways past finding out!
34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
or who hath been his counsellor?
35 Or who hath first given to him,
and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him,
are all things:
to whom be glory for ever.
Amen.
As Gentile workman, I abide by GOD's laws.
I do not question the LORD's ways.
I search Scripture, that I may understand.
I wait for SPIRIT to teach me, that I may know.
The LORD chose Israel for His perfect purpose.
Born again Gentiles have a place in salvation, too:
Ephesians 3:4-6
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4 Whereby, when ye read,
ye may understand my knowledge
in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known
unto the sons of men,
as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets
by the Spirit;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs,
and of the same body,
and partakers of his promise in Christ
by the gospel:
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