Whether covenant people have been guaranteed a place in heaven is the topic, today. Also, there is more on judgment, punishment and divine retribution. A “Yahoo! Answers” writer using the ID “Ksh” (Level 5 with 7,777 points, a member since February 25, 2012) posted the following:
Are Jews guaranteed Heaven according to Christianity..?
you know, gods chosen people ans all..
THE BATTLE AXE: Beyond Punishment (03/21/2014)—Further goals of judgment are purification and reconciliation. However, retribution and retaliation are often the aim when delivering punishment (we say, “an eye for and eye,” and “payback”). Inflicting harm upon others as judgment is addressed within the Bible through the laws provided to establish and maintain order among those who left Egypt along with Moses. Also, the principle of blessing and cursing introduced at that time continues to be an important aspect of divine operations among mankind. Divine blessing and cursing are “on condition,” and what a person finally receives will be in accordance with their own actions, attitudes, choices and decisions. Neither death nor punishment can finish, or satisfy all the demands for full justice. Therefore, throughout the Scriptures both death and punishment appear repeatedly in order to indicate that there will be eternal judgment. Sacred events that may appear to be punishment for sins may be, instead, admonition and warning, divine proclamation, fulfillment of promise or prophecy, operations that pertain to repentance as well as the mechanical outworking of processes within the flesh (e.g., circulation, hearing, fornication, respiration, seeing, thought), for material matter (aging, contraction, expansion, rot), and for aspects of the natural world (e.g., erosion, gravity, ice, fire, moonlight, rain, sunlight, wind, water). See Deuteronomy 30: 15-20, Exodus 21: 22-25, Job 19: 29, Proverbs 13: 21-22, Matthew 23: 13-39 and 1st Corinthians 2: 12-14, KJV.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. (Isaiah 66: 1-5, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Chosen To Serve As Prophets (01/01/2014); Lawful Revenge? (01/02/2014); The Earth Made New (11/13/2013); Hierarchy (11/14/2013); The Place of GOD? (06/01/2013); Putting GOD First? (06/02/2013); The Children, not the Dogs (03/17/2013); Why Jesus Must Be A Jew (03/18/2013); The Benefit of Grace (03/19/2013); The Need to Purify Heaven (01/17/2013); The Place for Eternal Life? (01/06/2013); Therefore There Was Trust (01/07/2013)
“Ksh”, many of those who continue to receive blessings from GOD, because they also continue to bless Israel, would be likely to agree with you where your belief and practice acknowledges the following points:
(1.) Fulfillment for the desire to see heaven among those who continue in covenant with GOD along with the expectations (we say, hope) and possibilities of GOD for created beings and living creatures all may be described as (a) certain, (b) conditional, (c) in an active and unfinished divine process, and (d) organic, for they are established through life and eternal divine utterance (such as commandment, proclamation, promise, and prophecy).
(2.) All who journeyed from Egypt displayed some desire and determination to reach the Promised Land. However, only two from the armies of Israel (that numbered more than ½ million) actually did possess their allotted portion (Caleb and Joshua). Even Moses was excluded to demonstrate certain features and principles of a continuous covenant relationship. Foremost among them, believers must operate directed by the spirit matter deposited within them from divinity, rather than rely upon their inborn human nature. Included are such inseparable aspects from the makeup of GOD as faith, forbearance, humility, longsuffering, righteousness, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
There is a lot more to be said, correctly applied, thoroughly examined, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, (3.) To be “chosen” is to serve as an instrument in a divine priesthood that makes visible various sacred processes. So to speak, the chosen must demonstrate and display deliverance, forgiveness, repentance, salvation, and triumph over sin as well as captivity, condemnation, defiance, and disfavor—we say, the “good, the bad, and the ugly.” Thus, entirely upon the basis of what they understand as having come forth from GOD, Jews and those serving through the ministry of Jesus Christ welcome an inheritance that includes the experience of “going to heaven” by living upon the earth in agreement with eternal purposes such as atonement, creation, death, rebirth, revelation, judgment, and sanctification.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. (Jeremiah 17: 7-8, KJV)
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