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Well, hello and welcome to the Ask Entirite Anything podcast, the show where we try to answer your questions about Jesus, the Bible and the life of faith.

I'm Mike Bird from Ridley College.

And I'm Tom Wright in Northern Scotland.

And we're here to answer your questions that you've sent in because Tom's got a particular

bit of wisdom he can share when it comes to answering them.

And we've got some good ones today.

Our first question comes from Kathy Wenman in Spalding of the United Kingdom. And she asks,

why does God say in Joel 320, but Judah shall dwell forever and Jerusalem from generation to generation,

and in Hosea 118, how shall I give up the Ephraim?

Shall I deliver the Israel?

In verse 9, I will not execute the fierceness of my anger.

There are many, many other verses, she says, I could quote,

where God declared his constant and unending love for Israel. So, Tom, does God have a love for Israel that is inexhaustible and eternal?

And I guess what does that mean for the state of Israel today? I mean, this is a

question that you could argue links God's love for Israel with contemporary political events. So,

Tom, what do you have to say to Kathy about these particular Bible verses that she's bringing up?

Wow. This is one of those questions which, if I was to try to answer it fully, I probably need a three or four volume book to take each element of it, to clean it up, to allay misconceptions, et cetera, and then to move on. But trying to compress all of that, I want to

stress that in the New Testament, it is precisely promises like those ones that are seen as being

fulfilled in Jesus. In 2 Corinthians, Paul says all the promises of God find their yes in him.

Part of our difficulty has been that we have seen

Jesus as simply this great divine Savior who arrives to rescue us and, oh, there are some verses

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