Jewish wickedness does not prevent them from turning to Jesus Christ. 

Ezekiel 33:12b

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“…as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness;” Ezekiel 33:12b.

The wickedness of Israel is so wicked that that they conspired and daily sought for an opportunity to murder Jesus Christ. They picked up stones to stone Him to death, intended to throw Him off a cliff to murder Him, tried to get Him to confess to a crime deserving of death, tried to obtain false testimony from others against Him, and other ways as well. Eventually, it was the death on the Cross that Jesus Christ suffered, which was by the plotting of the Jewish people, but according to will of God for Him to atone for our sin as the Lamb of God.

As wicked as what the Jewish people were, they continue to turn from the will of God today by rejecting Jesus Christ. In fact, they are grouped together with the world government, and the unbelieving global culture, as they were when this verse was written, “For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.” Acts 4:27-28

As wicked as what the wickedness of the Jewish people is, they will be forgiven and granted eternal life in the day they return to God through Jesus Christ. “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13

The Apostle Paul, when he was known as Saul, was one of the worst of the worst of the Jewish people when it came to his spiritual wickedness. Paul himself said, “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers’ law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today. I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women, as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the council of the elders, from whom I also received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring in chains even those who were there to Jerusalem to be punished.” Acts 22:3-5

Paul saw the light of Jesus Christ and became a Christian filled with the Holy Spirit. The wickedness of Saul/Paul could not prevent him from receiving eternal life on the day he turned to Jesus Christ. Paul is our example of God’s Salvation plan through Jesus, “Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:18

This is the promise made to us, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

O for the wonderful love he has promised,
promised for you and for me!
Though we have sinned, he has mercy and pardon,
pardon for you and for me.

Come home, come home;
you who are weary come home;
earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,
calling, O sinner, come home!
[Tenderly and Gently, Jesus is Calling Hymn]

“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, 
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come
I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1


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