If Israel Is Biblically Irrelevant, Then God Breaks His Promises
If God can erase Israel from His promises, He can erase you too.
That is the real issue hiding behind the claim that the modern nation of Israel has “nothing to do with the Bible.” This is not a minor disagreement about geopolitics. It is a referendum on whether God means what He says when He makes public covenant promises.
And Scripture does not leave room for ambiguity.
❖ Genesis 17:7–8
“I will establish my covenant as an ev... moreIf Israel Is Biblically Irrelevant, Then God Breaks His Promises
If God can erase Israel from His promises, He can erase you too.
That is the real issue hiding behind the claim that the modern nation of Israel has “nothing to do with the Bible.” This is not a minor disagreement about geopolitics. It is a referendum on whether God means what He says when He makes public covenant promises.
And Scripture does not leave room for ambiguity.
❖ Genesis 17:7–8
“I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you… The whole land of Canaan… I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you.”
God binds three realities together: descendants, covenant, land. The Hebrew word for everlasting, olam, is covenantal permanence language. If olam can quietly expire without notice, then the word everlasting in any promise becomes unstable. The denial of Israel’s relevance requires redefining permanence after the fact.
The text never signals expiration.
❖ Deuteronomy 30:3–5
“The Lord your God will… gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you… from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back… He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors.”
The sequence is explicit: global scattering followed by global regathering. Not absorption. Not metaphor.
Geographic return. Moses predicts dispersion on a scale impossible in his lifetime and restoration on a scale equally impossible apart from divine action.
Scattering is discipline. Restoration is covenant fidelity.
This pattern repeats across Scripture. Joseph is scattered before exaltation. Israel is exiled before restoration. Judgment is never God’s final word to a covenant people. Romans 11:11 says Israel’s stumbling is not their collapse, but part of a redemptive trajectory.
God restores what He scatters.
❖ Jeremiah 31:35–37
“Only if these decrees vanish from my sight… will Israel ever cease being a nation before me… Only if the heavens above can be measured… will I reject all the descendants of Israel…”
This is cosmic oath language. God ties Israel’s national continuity to the stability of creation. The argument is deliberately outrageous: Israel disappears only if the universe does. The Hebrew structure stacks impossibilities to underline certainty.
To say Israel has no biblical relevance is to claim that a promise anchored to the sun and moon dissolved silently.
Jeremiah says the opposite.
❖ Ezekiel 36:24
“I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.”
The order matters. Regathering precedes spiritual renewal. God explicitly says He acts “for the sake of my holy name.” The return is not a reward for righteousness. It is a defense of divine reputation before the nations.
Israel’s restoration is framed as a public vindication of God’s character.
❖ Matthew 19:28
“…in the renewal of all things… you… will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
Jesus speaks of a future administrative structure built around twelve tribes. He does not treat Israel as a dissolved category. He projects it forward into the regeneration of the world. The Greek phrase palingenesia, “renewal,” is cosmic rebirth language. Israel is present in that future architecture.
❖ Romans 11:1–2
“Did God reject his people? By no means! … God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew.”
❖ Romans 11:29
“…for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.”
Irrevocable translates the Greek ametamelēta, not subject to regret, reversal, or withdrawal. Paul anticipates the accusation that God abandoned Israel and rejects it in absolute terms.
The New Testament does not erase Israel.
It explains a temporary hardening within an ongoing covenant framework.
The radical claim is not that Israel matters.
The radical claim is that God stopped meaning what He said.
Historically, this theological move has never stayed abstract. When a people are declared covenantally obsolete, they rarely remain socially safe. The erasure of Israel in theology has repeatedly preceded the mistreatment of Jews in history. Ideas about God’s promises shape moral imagination. Scripture warns Gentile believers explicitly:
❖ Romans 11:18
“You do not support the root, but the root supports you.”
A Christianity that forgets Israel forgets its own origin story.
Chuck Missler once summarized the stakes this way:
“If God can revoke His promises to Israel, what assurance do you have that He won’t revoke His promises to you?”
That is not sentimental rhetoric. It is covenant logic. The reliability of salvation promises is tethered to the reliability of God’s earlier covenants. The Bible presents one continuous story of promise-keeping.
None of this means the modern state is morally perfect.
The prophets rebuked Israel relentlessly. But prophetic rebuke assumes covenant continuity. You cannot discipline a people you have erased. Biblical criticism presupposes Israel’s ongoing identity. Covenant denial eliminates the very category the prophets addressed.
The Jewish people carried the Scriptures through exile, persecution, dispersion, and attempted annihilation.
The preservation of both the people and their text is one of history’s most improbable survivals. Christianity exists downstream of that preservation. To read their Scriptures while denying their narrative relevance is historical and theological amnesia.
The prophetic arc never ends in erasure. It ends in restoration.
❖ Zechariah 14:9
“The Lord will be king over the whole earth.”
❖ Romans 11:26
“And in this way all Israel will be saved.”
The Bible’s trajectory is not replacement but reconciliation. Israel’s future restoration is woven into the climax of redemptive history. The same faithfulness that preserves Israel guarantees the Church’s hope. God is not juggling separate moral standards. He is demonstrating one consistent character across covenants.
God did not stutter.
God did not revoke His covenant.
Erase Israel, and you weaken the architecture of every promise that depends on God’s covenant integrity.
Defend Israel’s biblical relevance, and you are not defending a nation-state as an idol. You are defending the claim that when God speaks in history, He binds Himself to His word.
And a God who binds Himself to His word is the only God worth trusting.
✠ Sir John Scivoletti ✠
✠ Turco Joan of Arc Priory ✠
✠✠Act and God will Act (Actus et Deus Act)✠✠
