Never made that argument, so there's that. smh
He chose them and made a covenant regarding the land they had herotes through Abraham’s promise
“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.”
Deuteronomy 30:15-18
and then
they broke the covenant he made with them and so
“And the LORD said,
I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.”
2 Kings 23:27 KJV
but then a promise to them ( israel)
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:”
Jeremiah 31:31-32 KJV
then tbat new promised covenant came but many of them rejected it as they had the first covenant all through the ot God was sending them prophets warning them eventually he sent Jesus to warn them and tell them the new covenant that would forgive those sins and teach them truth that wouod fill them with a new spirit and renew thief hesrts within them bit when Jesus came they rejected and had him crucified that matters a lot as to what transpired
they constantly rejected him forst the early prophets calling them to repent this parable is about Israel and tells thier story
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Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.
When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. ( what they did to the early prophets )
Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. ( what they did to the latter messianic prophets )
Last of all, he sent his son ( Jesus messiah ) to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. “
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.( what they did to Jesus the son of God who was the messenger of the promised new covenant )
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Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and
he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “ ‘
The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’ ? “
Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.”
Matthew 21:33-43 NIV
I’m j tbe old covenant isrwel was promised tbat if they obeyed God he would make then a kingdom to rule the earth and he would dwell among them but if they broke his covenant then there would be a very different outcome for them and thier land
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