(06-24-2025 08:35 PM)b2b Wrote: Ok considering all the intermixing over the past few thousand years who's really Jewish?
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It doesn't really matter, God is the one who will sort it out in the end, just as he sorts out our salvation person by person even though we are scattered amongst billions of people. There were a huge mixture of people there throughout the 2nd temple period.
The Bible never said they were coming back as a pure blood race. It said just the opposite, that they would come back as a mixed people having been living and mixing among the Gentiles across the earth for nearly 2000 years. 2500 years for some of them.
Even Jesus' bloodline was mixed with prostitutes and Moabites and other Gentiles.
God also said there would never be a fake nation of Israel living in the Land. He said when they were being judged and in diaspora that the land would lie mostly desolate and rest awaiting for when they would return. Its filled and thriving more today than at any time since the days of Solomon. But its not going to last, as Ezekiel says at the moment when they are at the most peace and feeling the most safe, the end will begin. And their darkest hour will come upon them, one that only God can save them from once they finally call out to Jesus as their Messiah. The OT calls it the Time of Jacobs trouble (the great tribulation in the NT) and millions of them are going to die in their stubbornness and sin before it ends. But they will turn to and accept Jesus in the end.
There is no way I could post all those verses, but here are a few snippets:
Hosea 5
14 For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, even I, will tear them and go away; I will take them away, and no one shall rescue.
15
I will return again to My place, Till they acknowledge their offense.
Then they will seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.
Matthew 23:39
“For I say unto you (Jerusalem), Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.”
Zechariah 12
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.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications:
and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon (Armageddon).