We are reminded that even if Gen. 12's verse refers to Israel (not to Abraham himself), there are a few more words which the Dispensationalists such as Cruz and Huckabee ignore.
Those words are "the conditions" of the Covenant that those folks think gives the Zionists clear title to most of the Middle East.
... But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee… the Lord will bring upon thee all the diseases, and plagues, that are not written in the volume of this law till he consume thee: And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God. And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to you, and multiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to nought, so that you shall be taken away from the land which thou shalt go in to possess. The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone. Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in those nations, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. (Deuteronomy 28-29)...
When Jesus told the Samaritan woman at the well that divine worship would no longer be held at the Temple, He meant it. That's because most of Israel refused to 'hear the voice of the Lord' in Christ. They still do.
Thus ended that covenant--and the Temple with it.
Then followed all the curses that you see in the Deut. quote above.
Zionism is political, NOT religious, no matter what you may hear from heretics and politicians. The Abrahamic Covenant is dead, dead, dead--just as the Lord said.
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