The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Return or?

1. In regard to Israel, i.e., the national people, it was God's prescriptive will (revealed will) that they would be faithful to their God. But it was God's decretive will (eternal council) that they would "go away". This is NOT some kind of double-talk nor is it espousing a "two wills in God" error.

2. The fact is that God divorced Israel for it's spiritual adultery.

God divorced Israel on the grounds that she was an adulteress. In Jeremiah 3, we read that God found Israel to be so persistently promiscuous (by worshipping idols) that He felt compelled to divorce her.

"God says, "If a husband divorces his wife and she goes from him and belongs to another man, will he still return to her? Will not that land be completely polluted? But you are a harlot with many lovers; yet you turn to Me," declares the LORD."

"Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. Yet you had a harlot's forehead; You refused to be ashamed."

"Then the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there."

"And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also." (Jeremiah 3:1,3,6,8)

3. Will the nation of Israel be restored? I say no.... never. The true Israel the Church will come to its fulfillment when all the elect, both Jews and Gentiles, are effectually called and are one in Christ.

That's my