cheetarah1980
Well-Known Member
Through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God clearly set apart Israel as His sacred treasure or chosen people. The Hebraic scriptures give us the history of Israel and their relationship with the one true God. Basically they rebel, God finally has enough and punishes them, they come back to Him, repeat the cycle (I know, it's the cliffs notes version).
I was talking to a friend today. He asked me to read Ezekiel 34 and made the comment that it looked as though the prophesy was saying that Israel would be destroyed. He said that the flock discussed in this passage is actually Christians and Israel is the bad shephard because they rejected Christ. I happened to disagree. I saw the passage as talking about how Israel was scattered around the world after the temple was destroyed in 70 A.D. and how eventually God would bring Israel back to the land with a new shephard (i.e. Messiah).
His points made me think about God's chosen people. There is a school of thought that with Christ, Christians became God's new chosen people instead of Israel. If you believe this, is there any scripture that verifies this? Thus far I cannot find any. I would like to think that my friend had some scriptural basis for this view but he couldn't immediately give me any.
I was talking to a friend today. He asked me to read Ezekiel 34 and made the comment that it looked as though the prophesy was saying that Israel would be destroyed. He said that the flock discussed in this passage is actually Christians and Israel is the bad shephard because they rejected Christ. I happened to disagree. I saw the passage as talking about how Israel was scattered around the world after the temple was destroyed in 70 A.D. and how eventually God would bring Israel back to the land with a new shephard (i.e. Messiah).
His points made me think about God's chosen people. There is a school of thought that with Christ, Christians became God's new chosen people instead of Israel. If you believe this, is there any scripture that verifies this? Thus far I cannot find any. I would like to think that my friend had some scriptural basis for this view but he couldn't immediately give me any.