GOD'S COVENANTS WITH ISRAEL ARE ETERNAL
CAN THE JEWISH PEOPLE BE ELIMINATED FOR THEIR SIN? WILL THE COVENANTS WITH GOD BE CONDITIONAL?
Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, how you swore to them by your own self, and said to them:
"I will multiply their descendants as the stars of heaven, and I will give to their descendants all this land of which I have spoken, to possess it forever."
And the Eternal renounced the punishment planned for the people of Israel (Exodus 32:13-14).
No, the Jewish People cannot be completely eliminated; because of the eternal covenant God made with the Avot. Others might suggest:
How can we prove this to be true? Didn't we read that God wanted to destroy Israel after they made the golden calf and that Moses was the one who made God change his mind in Exodus 32:13-14?
This seems more like a test for Moshe, given the fact that, we read clearly in the scriptures that God says that Israel cannot be eliminated, that to destroy Israel, the whole creation would have to be destroyed instead, including everything in the heavens and the earth. If that was the case, Moshe was very clever in the way he appealed to the Eternal Contract with God,
How do we know that the Contract or Covenant is Eternal?
There are several compelling proofs, such as these verses that say:
"But even when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them to the point of destroying them, thus annulling My covenant with them, for I am the Eternal, their God. But I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, to be their God. I am the Eternal (Leviticus 26:44-45).
However, for now let's see what Moshe Rabeinu used, the first thing that Moshe used, points out the Iraqi Sage, Ben Ish Jai,
It's the fact that God swore by Himself. By using that argument Moshe was closing the mouth of the accusing angel and all the other voices that accuse the Jews until today of all evils, that was proof of a Guarantee that proves that God cannot Change that Covenant, because it is about God against God himself, no matter the behavior of the Jew God sealed that Covenant with Oath by Himself.
Moshe's second argument is that God had said that He would increase the Jews so that they would be as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sands of the sea. And not only that, but He also said that they will shine like the stars for their righteousness, as in the verse that says: And those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who turn many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever (Daniel 12:3; Vayikra Rabá 30:2)
And on the other hand, God has to fulfill what He said to the prophets:
"I will take you from among the nations, gather you from all the countries and bring you back to your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be cleansed; I will cleanse you from all your filth and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh; and I will put my Spirit within you. So I will make you walk in my legal decrees and keep my precepts of justice faithfully (Ezekiel 12:3) 36:24-27).
And because Moshe had already received these words before the future prophets who would come after him. For there he asked God to purify Israel and multiply them as He promised. Like the word that says:
"May the Eternal, the God of your fathers, multiply you a thousand times more, and bless you according to His promise. (Deuteronomy 1:11)."
Moshe's third argument is that God has to forgive Israel, because the Jews are children of God, as it is written: You are children of the Eternal your God (Deut 14:1). It is understood that God being the King of kings, His decrees and death sentences are unforgivable, but kings do not act as kings with their own children; but as parents.
God Himself, the Teacher of the Jewish people, had renounced the honor that corresponds to Him as King and had taken the trouble to lead the people through the desert.
How can these cases be compared with the present matter?
Well, in this case the Holy God, Blessed be He, is the owner of the world and the Torah; and therefore, for the sake of His children He can give up His honor to save His children (Kiddushin 32a:16).
The promise that God made to King David is valid for all Israel:
"I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. If he does evil, I will punish him with the rod of men and with the affliction of the sons of men; but I will not take my favor from him, as I took him from Saul, whom I removed to put you in his place (2 Samuel 7:14-15).
Another proof that the Jews are children of God is when God told Abraham that he was going to give the land to Abraham's future descendants. Israel did not yet exist, and according to Torah law, a gift to a future baby in the womb, or one that has not yet been conceived is void, unless the giver He tries to give them to his own children (Bava Batra 142a).
Since the Land belongs to the children of Israel, they must be children of God who is the true owner. God gives them to them as a father gives them to his children. After presenting these arguments God demonstrated a change of heart. - Aderet Eliahu
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