Actually, I was thinking of Amos prediction that the Northern kingdom of
Israel would be destroyed as it was in 721 BC.
Jeremiah predicted the southern kingdom of Judah would fall, as it did to
Nebuchcanezzar in 587 BC.
Bopth were opposed by "false" prophets who predicted that God would never
let his chosen people be defeated. For examples of the kind of traditions
that the false prophets relied on , see Psalm 46: 4-8, and Ps 89. See also
Jer 7:1-15, where he preaches againstb those who looked to the Jerusalem
Temple to gaurantee their safety.
Both kningdoms were destroyed as prophesied and God had to recreate Israel
in a different form (" do a new thing" ) to carry out his purpose.
One could argue that the new covenant, through Jesus, was another " new
thing' that God did to bring the Gentiles into fellowship with him.
-----Original Message-----
From: MckenNeil@aol.com [mailto:MckenNeil@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 2:29 AM
To: shuanr@boo.net
Subject: Re: After Man? More musings on an evolutionary universe
In a message dated 3/4/02 10:16:09 pm, shuanr@boo.net writes:
<< This puts me in mind of the prophets Amos and Jeremiah, and their vision
that God would make an unrepentant Israel and Judah go extinct. No one
believed them either. >>
But Romans makes it clear that Israel - in its true sense of the spiritual
people of God - has not become extinct, and that Gentile believers of the
Gospel are grafted in to the original Israel of faith. Thus Israel in its
broad sense is eternal.
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