Many passages in the Old Testament (the Old Covenant) declare that the Israelites broke their covenant with God and were subsequently punished for their unfaithfulness. But God, in His eternal faithfulness, continued to love His chosen people and promised them a Messiah who would make a new covenant (New Testament) with the Jewish people.
The Apostles Paul states in his letter to the believers in Rome that only a remnant of the Jews will be saved in the end. These will be those who finally realize that Jesus was indeed their prophesied Messiah and will state, as Jesus predicted, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”
Ezra 3:11 – They praised the LORD and gave thanks as they took turns singing: “The LORD is good! His faithful love for Israel will last forever.” Everyone started shouting and praising the LORD because work on the foundation of the temple had begun.
Jeremiah 31:3 – Some time ago, the LORD appeared to me and told me to say: Israel, I will always love you; that’s why I’ve been so patient and kind.
Hosea 14:4 – Israel, you have rejected me, but my anger is gone; I will heal you and love you without limit.
Psalms 105:8-10 – He has remembered His covenant forever, the Word which He commanded to a thousand generations; the covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac; and He confirmed it to Jacob for a Law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant…
Genesis 17:7 – And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Genesis 17:19 – God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Deuteronomy 4:31 – For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
Isaiah 54:10 – For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
Jeremiah 32:40 – I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.
Ezekiel 16:60 – yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
Ezekiel 37:26 – I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
Hebrews 8:8-10 – For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days (the Great Tribulation), declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Romans 9:27 – And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,…
Revelation 21:12 It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed—