The inclusion of a thousand generations
Adding the thousand generations Jewish idiom is not a problem for me.
Just like the cattle on a thousand hills.
And there have never been any periods of time that God has not had a remnant of Jewish Men that did not believe.
Agreed.
No, we are, like it or not, grafted into that vine that is traced back through Jesus to Abraham who believed in the Spiritual Root before He was born of Mary.
Which is exactly what I said, the vine is Jesus and yes we are grafted into Him. We are also, citizens of the commonwealth of Israel, because Abraham is our father through faith in Christ, the One Seed. (Eph 2:12)
I will add that God will not break His promise and will always retain a remnant.
Of coarse. Issac, Jacob, Joseph, David, Elijah, Isaiah, the apostles,
jasonc, Dr. Michael Brown, etc........
Zep 2:9 Therefore, I live, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Surely, Moab is as Sodom, And the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, An overrunning of nettles and salt-pits, And a desolation--unto the age.
A residue of My people do seize them, And a remnant of My nation inherit them.
Who are the remnant, those who love God and obey Him. I listed a few of those above...
To stay with the topic of this thread.....
Gen 12:1 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:
Gen 12:2 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:
Gen 12:3 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.
Here Issac passes on the blessing to Jacob....
Gen 27:27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
Gen 27:28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
Gen 27:29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee:
cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Your Deut. scripture tells us clearly who is blessed by this blessing and who are cursed....Those of Israel, who love God and obey Him. Did/do all those of Israel, love God and obey Him? Obviously not, God says a remnant.
So we see the remnant blessed and we see those in Abraham blessed, who are all blessed through Abraham? He is the father of us all. Those blessings come through the One Seed, the Messiah, Yeshua, Jesus Christ.
So who are the ones that the Lord says should not be harmed?
Edom's hatred of the Israelites, was a blood family issue. The US does not have that issue with Israel.
Are you saying that the Muslim people are descendents of Esau?