Our Hope is anchored in God’s Word: What has God said in His Word about the Jewish people and the land of Israel? What promises and covenants has God made to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? Every Christian will be blessed not only to know these scriptures but also to recognize their fulfillment in the time we live in, and to use them as the basis of our prayer for Israel.

We find three very important promises in these scriptures in Leviticus:

• First, God will drive out the nations and give Israel the land flowing with milk and honey. He also warns them not to follow the customs of these nations.
• Second, He will set them apart from the peoples, and they will be Holy to Him.
• Third, He stated that He would remember His covenant with Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham, and even though they rejected His statutes, He would not reject them.

Lev. 20:23-24 NASB 1995:  Israel is to possess the land flowing with milk and honey: “Moreover, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I will drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them. Hence, I have said to you, ‘You are to possess their land, and I Myself will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.”

Lev. 20:26 NASB 1995:  Israel is to be Holy to the Lord and set apart from the people of the land.
“Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.”

Lev. 26:42-45 NASB 1996:  God says He will remember His covenant with Jacob and will not reject Israel.
“then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes. Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the Lord.”

Christians today need to carefully read and study these scriptures. There is a doctrine believed by some in Christianity today called Replacement Theology, which says that God has rejected the Jewish people because of their disobedience and replaced them with the church. This doctrine is contrary to a careful reading of the scriptures, including the writings of Paul. Here in Leviticus, God says even though Israel rejected His statutes, He will not reject them.