There is a beautiful love story in the bible. Most churches can not teach it because of false doctrine, a lack of knowledge of the entire bible and a misidentified people.
God made a choice. God chose one group of people over all of the rest of everyone alive. Preachers have no idea the blasphemy they speak when they change the meaning of scripture to be inclusive.
Ezekiel 16:8 “Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the lord Yahweh, and thou becamest mine.”
When Moses brought the children of Israel into the dessert God married his chosen. The giving of the ten commandments was a marriage contract.
Isaiah 54:5 “For thy Maker is thine husband; Yahweh of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.”
After the death of King Solomon the Nation of Israel split into the House of Israel, the Ten Tribes and the House of Judah, two tribes.
Ezekiel 23:1-4 “The word of Yahweh came again unto me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
After years of idolatry, God divorced the Ten Northern tribes. They became known as “not a people” and Nations [incorrectly Gentiles] in scripture. See Hosea 1.
Jeremiah 3:8 “And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.”
Jeremiah 3:14 “Turn, O backsliding children, saith Yahweh; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion”.
This was a promise to bring Israel to the new promised land announced during the time of King David. They went by way of captivity instead. God keeps His promises even through unpleasant means.
Hosea prophesies that the “not my people” would one day become Christians and rejoin with the House of Judah under one head, Christ.
1 Peter 2:1 “Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”
God promised to remarry His adulterous people, but not without obeying God’s own Laws.
Romans 7:1-4 “Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.”
So you see another reason for the death of Christ and for immersion for the remission of sins.
Romans 6:3-4 “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
For the last almost two thousand years true Israel, as a people have been Christian. Each Israelite Christian becomes a bride in waiting for the return of the bridegroom. Due to the Law of the Kinsman Redeemer, Christ can only redeem His bride. The promise of remarriage is only for true Israel. This is why it is so important that one pay attention to context and not try to turn every verse into an inclusive mess. The modern day Jews are not Israel, but have been trying to prevent God’s bride from entering the Kingdom of God.
Mathew 25:1 “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.” (Read through verse 13.)
Be wise. Learn God’s word. Do not let anyone steal this future from you.