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Originally Posted by jediwill83
Go read Jeremiah in Context. The BRANCH referred to was Christ coming as a man.
All the speaking of restoration in those scriptures was literally speaking of restoration from being carried away into literal captivity due to their sin. Its pretty clear that its done to chastise and bring them back into a covenant relationship and then and only then will that be restored as it is for us all through repentence, being baptised in His name and being filled with His Spirit.
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This speaks specifically of the 2 Jewish groups(12 tribes)...
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with
the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with
the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
...and it says nothing about a single gentile, nor has any gentile fit this particular criteria,