To keep Israel from straying from Him, God punishes the false prophet the same as those who listen to them.

Ezekiel 14:11

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^“… that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me, nor be profaned anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be My people and I may be their God,” says the Lord God.’” Ezekiel 14:11

God punishes the Jewish preachers and teachers the same as the Jewish people who listen to them. That is to keep Israel from straying from Him, to prevent their profanity and sin, so that they would be His people and He would be their God. Jesus Christ was sent to the Jewish people for that purpose, “And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:29

Today, there are no promises of blessings for the Jewish people in the New Testament, unless they come to God through Jesus Christ. All of the blessings mentioned for the Jewish people in the Old Testament have become the blessings of everyone who believe in Jesus. Jesus Christ speaks these words to the Jewish people, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” Matthew 23:37-39

Today, we who believe in God through Jesus Christ and embrace the presence of the Holy Spirit are adopted into the house of Israel. We who believe Jesus Christ are the people of God and He is our God, as quoted, “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 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 1:11-13

“But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed shall be called.” That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed…Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.” Romans 9:6-8, Galatians 3:16

 “As He says also in Hosea: “I will call them My people, who were not My people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.” “And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ There they shall be called sons of the living God.” Romans 9:25-26, Hosea 2:23

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“….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