What does the Bible say about jews going to heaven?
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The Bible teaches that Jewish people, like all people, are saved not by ancestry but by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and God has not rejected His people. Romans 1:16 declares that the gospel is God’s saving power “to the Jew first and also to the Greek.” Romans 11:1-5 shows that God preserved a believing remnant of Israel by grace, while Romans 9:27 teaches that only a remnant will be saved. The warnings of final judgment in Matthew 13:40, Matthew 25:41, Jude 1:7, and Revelation 19:20 apply to all who remain opposed to God. Christians should therefore pray for and lovingly proclaim Christ to Jewish people, trusting God’s faithful promises and sovereign mercy.
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- Matthew 25:41
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
- Matthew 13:40
As therefore the darnel is gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
- Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
- Revelation 19:20
The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
- Romans 11:1-5
[1] I ask then, Did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. [2] God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel: [3] "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life." [4] But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal." [5] Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
- Romans 9:27
Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, It is the remnant who will be saved;
- Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
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