Why We Believe with Certainty in the Premillennial View (Part 5 Completed)

God’s Keeps His Promises to the Nation Israel
We can see from these texts (Look at Part 4) that man’s disobedience to the Mosaic law did not cancel God’s commitment to Abraham through made in the Abrahamic Covenant. This is the main point of everything relative to the Old Testament and the end times prophecies. It is amazing what God does relative to the things that He promises. If God says something and the fulfillment of that promise is based on God’s faithfulness, then it does not matter what man does, the promise will be kept. Israel did surely not follow through with their commitment to the Mosaic Law. They publically committed by a sacrifice of an animal's blood to be obedient, but they also publically violated that commitment. Based on God’s commitment to Abraham they were still God’s chosen people of promise. In the book of Hosea, God clearly demonstrates this love and commitment. God asked Hosea to marry a woman who was a prostitute, and even though she publically went back to her life of prostitution God told Hosea to go back to her to keep his covenant with her.

In Ezekiel 16 we see this same thing conveyed, as God shows His unconditional love for the nation. The nation is presented in the chapter as a harlot who gives herself to every passer-by. (16:15) This speaks to how the nation had intermingled with foreign countries with alliances and marriage. Even though this happened, and they suffered the results of their choices, God spoke to how he still remembered His covenant with them.(16:60) There will be that day, in the future, when they will “know” that God is Lord. (16:62)

We see in Deuteronomy 7:6 God’s commitment to His promise.

Deuteronomy 7:6-9 6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

We can see from the book of Zechariah not only how important the nation of Israel is to God, but also God’s future intent for how that importance is going to be expressed through fulfillment of God’s promises. In Zechariah 2:8 God speaks to how he would judge the nations “after glory” who had plundered Israel or in God’s words touches Israel. He demonstrates His sensitivity to things that happen to Israel by saying that when someone does something to Israel that it is like someone touching the “apple of His eye.” God says that a time will come when He will “dwell” in the midst of the people of Israel and that at that time they “will know that the Lord of hosts” sent Jesus to them. (Zech. 2:11) Also from Zechariah we get confirmation of the literal earthly kingdom of Christ on this earth. . In Zechariah 13:8 we see the degree to which the nation will suffer during the tribulation and the remnant that will survive.

Zechariah 13:8-9 (KJV) 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

We see in Chapter 14 the following verses. You look and see how God tells us of this future earthly Kingdom.

Zechariah 14:9-11 9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. 10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. 11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.