Author	: Bill Kochman
Publish	: Mar. 26, 2026
Update	: Mar. 26, 2026
Parts	: 03

Synopsis:



Recently, I was reading an opinion piece on a particular news website where a certain Christian author launched into the usual pro-Israel argument regarding how God made an eternal covenant with the Israelites regarding the physical land of Israel. Of course, this person quoted some of the usual Bible verses which are typically used by pro-Israel Christians to support and defend that particular position regarding God's promise to the Israelites. In other words, Bible verses such as the following which discuss the eternal nature of God's promises and covenants, and how He always keeps His word, even when we are rebellious or become unfaithful:

"God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?"


"If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself."


"I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah . . . My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah."


"Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever."


"What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged."


"For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee."


All of the previous Bible verses are obviously true, and no Bible-believing Christian can deny them. However, at the same time, I am compelled to offer a word of caution, and that is the following. When we share verses from the Holy Scriptures in order to support our personal doctrinal position, we need to be very careful regarding how we stitch them together. In other words, we need to make certain that we are presenting a full Scriptural picture of the truth, and NOT just a partial picture of the truth which conforms to what we have personally chosen to believe.

In short, my friends, we should NOT purposely omit other Bible verses which clearly contradict our personal doctrinal stance. Neither should we intentionally twist the meaning of verses so that they present a picture which is rather different from the meaning which was actually intended to be understood by the original author. This is an issue which I likewise discuss in articles such as "Understanding the Bible in Context", as well as in a few others. Regarding this rather dishonest practice, the Apostle Peter referred to it as wresting -- that is to say, twisting, distorting or perverting -- the Scriptures, as we see by the following Bible verse:

"As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction."


So again, as I have pointed out in a number of other Bill's Bible Basics articles, we can't simply cherry pick the Bible and purposely choose to ignore those verses which contradict what we have chosen to believe, and only embrace those verses with which we agree. Our beliefs as Christians must conform to what the ENTIRE Bible actually states regarding a particular subject. We should never omit or ignore particular verses -- or worse yet, distort their true meaning as the Apostle Peter wrote -- simply because we do not like them, or because they expose weaknesses in our own theology. We need to carefully compare Scripture with Scripture, and carefully weigh verse against verse, in order to arrive at the proper conclusion.

Furthermore, if a certain Bible verse is bothering us in some way, and doesn't seem to agree with our theology, then we need to examine it more closely in order to determine why that is. As I point out in the article entitled "Are You Flexible?" we all need to be flexible with regard to our understanding of God's Word. We need to remain open to the possibility that our understanding regarding a particular verse may be lacking, or perhaps even wrong entirely. This requires personal honesty and humility on our part. It is only our personal pride that causes us to become so rigid in our doctrinal stance, that we can become unteachable by God's Spirit. This can easily lead to deep doctrinal deception on our part.

As I mention in articles such as "My Evolving Theology" and "Humility in Our Understanding of God's Word", over the past fifty-five years that I have been seriously studying God's Word, there have in fact been times when I have been off the mark and fallen into doctrinal error. When this has occurred, I have had to make an important choice: Do I stubbornly push forward in my error, or do I humbly ask the Lord to reveal the truth to me through an even deeper study of His Word? What would you do?

One very good example concerns my former position as a very dedicated Futurist. As I amply explain in articles such as "Jesus Christ's Return: Have We Been Deceived?", for forty years of my life, I very firmly believed in and strongly promoted and taught the doctrine of Futurism. You couldn't have convinced me to believe in anything else. However, as the years passed, the Lord pointed out certain verses to me which just did NOT jive with my Futurist-leaning beliefs. I knew that they were a problem, and a challenge to my whole theology, and it bothered me for years, until I finally got to the point where I said, "Okay, Lord, I need to know the Scriptural truth. I really don't want to be deceived. If I'm wrong about this, then please reveal the truth to me. He did exactly that, and you will find the results in that series.

So here's the thing, my friends. Because I have such a public teaching ministry via Bill's Bible Basics, I cannot afford to be in error, because it may affect many other Christians who take the time to read my work. That weighs on me heavily with every article and series that I write. Furthermore, God will hold me accountable someday for each and every word that I say and teach, and that is a very serious matter which I most certainly do NOT take lightly. In fact, as you may know, the Lord said the following, and the Apostle James also pointed out the seriousness of having a teaching ministry when they said and wrote these words:

"But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment."


"My brethren, be not many masters [teachers of Gods Word], knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation."


So, as I have explained before, that is why I embrace what I refer to as an "evolving theology". In other words, I strive to remain open to the Lord's Holy Spirit, and malleable with regard to my understanding. If the Lord reveals to me that I have been in error regarding something which I have said or taught, then my first inclination is to research the issue further, and then to correct the error in my articles. That is precisely why you will find a publish date, as well as an update date, on all of my articles and series. That is to let you know whether or not I have changed an article since you last read it, in case you want to read it again.

Returning to our primary subject of discussion, looking at the previous set of Bible verses which are sometimes used by pro-Israel Christians to defend their position regarding how God promised the land of Israel to the Jews, I am concerned, and I do see some problems with how they are being both used and interpreted. For example, I wonder how such pro-Israel, Zionist-leaning Christians fit the following Bible verses -- which were spoken directly by God in the Old Testament, and also by Jesus to the unbelieving Jews -- into their personal theology. I have taken the liberty to add several words in brackets for the sake of clarification:

"And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom [the Jews who falsely claim to be God's "Chosen People"] shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."


"Therefore say I unto you [to the unbelieving Jews], The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."


"Thus saith the LORD, Where is THE BILL OF YOUR MOTHER'S DIVORCEMENT, WHOM I HAVE PUT AWAY [sent out, cast out]? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions IS YOUR MOTHER PUT AWAY [sent out, cast out]."


"The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I HAD PUT HER AWAY [sent out, cast out], AND GIVEN HER A BILL OF DIVORCE; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also."


My friends, the previous verses speak a rather harsh truth. God states in the Old Testament that despite the covenant He had made with the Israelites, due to the fact that they had become an unfaithful wife and acted no different than whores, He chose to put them away or cast them out. Both the Northern Kingdom -- which was called both Israel or Ephraim -- and the Southern Kingdom -- which was comprised of Judah and Benjamin -- were given a bill of divorcement. God was so tired of their constant rebellion, that He divorced His unfaithful bride as a result of her continual spiritual infidelity. Furthermore, as you continue reading this series, you will in fact learn that He cast her out of her land on more than one occasion down through Biblical history.

Furthermore, during His own days, Jesus warned in the previous verses that it would occur again. However, this time, it would NOT just be in a physical sense by being cast out of their own land. Rather, it would be PERMANENT, and it would be in a more spiritual and eternal sense when they would be cast out of the very Kingdom of God due to their unbelief. That is the rather plain truth of the Scriptures which some of these pro-Israel, Zionist Christians do NOT like to talk about, because it goes against their personal, Futurist-leaning theology. All they want to do is to keep heaping praise on Israel and the Jews, and declaring that they still remain the "Chosen People" of God despite their continued rebellion. Such Christians don't even understand their own level of spiritual blindness.

To continue, many Christians -- I myself included -- remain firmly convinced that the nation of which Jesus spoke in the previous verse, to whom the Kingdom of God would be given, can only be the true, global, spiritual nation of born-again believers in Jesus Christ which was founded during the First Century AD. Being as I amply discuss this subject in other Bill's Bible Basics articles, I will not belabor the point here. However, I will add that it is we Christians who have born spiritual fruit for the Kingdom of God -- as Jesus said in the previous verses -- as is described in the following group of Bible verses:

"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."


"Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God."


"And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."


"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise."


"But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold . . . But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."


"And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred."


"But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience."


"He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down."


"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned."


So as you can obviously see, and as I likewise point out in the series entitled "The Parable of the Sower: Salvation and Service", the sign of true Believers is that their lives and their testimonies will bear some kind of positive fruit for the Kingdom of God. In contrast to the good fruit which is mentioned in the previous group of Bible verses, as Jesus also warns in those same verses, all of the fruitless trees will be cut down and cast into the fire. Surely, that would include those Jews who have outright rejected Christ, and who have thus produced no spiritual fruit for the Kingdom of God whatsoever. This reminds me of another incident which is found in the Gospels. Consider the following group of Bible verses where it is mentioned:

"Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!"


My dear friends, sadly, those verses perfectly describe the current spiritual state of the unbelieving Jews, as well as the state of Israel. Even though they are a very prosperous, modern, militarily powerful nation in the physical sense, in a spiritual sense, and from the Lord's perspective, they are in reality a dried up, withered and totally fruitless tree. The Jews have born God no spiritual children. Just as Jesus cursed that fig tree because it bore no fruit, the Jews are barren, just like King David's first wife -- Michal -- who the Lord cursed due to the fact that she was jealous and criticized David because he had joyously and freely danced before the Ark of the Covenant as the Ark was being brought into the City of David. Following are the key verses from that particular story:

"And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart . . . Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself! And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD. And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour. Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death."


Upon further reflection, I realized that it is actually true that the unbelieving Jews have in fact born fruit. However, it is most certainly NOT the kind of fruit that is pleasing to the Lord whatsoever. Consider the following Bible verse as evidence of this point:

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves."


OUCH! So, sadly, yes, the stubborn, stiff-necked, unbelieving Jews have indeed born their own kind of fruit. However, they are actually the children of Hell. They are the wicked, evil, rebellious spawn of Satan himself. For those of you who may think that I am being a little harsh, or perhaps politically incorrect, please understand that I can only share what the Bible itself -- and in fact, what the Lord Himself -- states regarding this matter. By their very own wicked choice, they chose to be the children of the Devil, the spawn from Hell, the children of disobedience, and the synagogue of Satan by their very unbelief. Again, these are NOT my words. They are simply what the New Testament states, so I offer no apologies for what the Word of God says. Consider the following group of Bible verses where this awful, tragic truth is revealed:

"YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."


"I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of THEM WHICH SAY THEY ARE JEWS, AND ARE NOT, BUT ARE THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN."


"Behold, I will make them OF THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN, WHICH SAY THEY ARE JEWS, AND ARE NOT, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee."


"Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, THE SPIRIT THAT NOW WORKETH IN THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE:"


"Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE."


"For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE:"


In light of the previous group of Bible verses, I think the following warning that was issued by Jesus in Matthew 7 will make a lot more sense to you. Even in that chapter the Lord was saying that there is more than one kind of fruit, and that which kind of fruit we each bear in our lives totally depends on to whom we are yielded: either to God, or else to the Devil. Consider what the Apostle Paul also wrote below:

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."


"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?"


"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."


Now we come to the gist of this matter, and it is important that you understand it, and are not deceived by what you see with your eyes. While God promised the land of Canaan to the Israelites during the period of the Old Testament, and while the modern Israelis do indeed currently possess the physical land of Israel, what you need to understand, my friends, is that the physical country of Israel is ALL that they truly have. Furthermore, if we really believe the Scriptures, then when those same Jews die, they will have absolutely NOTHING left! In fact, they will have even LESS than nothing. Why do I say this? Because they will die in their sins, and they'll die in a complete state of unbelief, unless, of course, they repent of their unbelief right quick.

In other words, my friends, the Jews -- whether they live in Israel or somewhere else -- will have absolutely NO eternal inheritance. That is to say, they will have NO Salvation and NO Eternal Life, unless they come to their senses, repent of their unbelief, and fully embrace Jesus Christ as both Lord and Savior. They will fall into the exact same lost category as anyone else who continuously and stubbornly rejects Jesus Christ, and they will be judged for it. There simply is not going to be a chosen, special status, or any kind of special exemption for the Jews, once they are dead, just because they happen to be Jews biologically speaking. They will fully reap what they have sown due to their unbelief. Furthermore, Jesus plainly told them these things in the following verses which we find in the Gospel of John:

"Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come. And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins."


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