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Hebrews 8 confirms the nature of the NEW COVENANT as being with the houses of ISRAEL and JUDAH. You do the "spiritual Israel" dance to deny this PLAIN and CLEAR Word of God.
Once AGAIN, the land promise is NOT CANCELLED just because it's not repeated in very passage of the so-called NT.
"BTW" should be capitalized, you language scholar.
Jer 23:5-8 (AKJV/PCE)(23:5) ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. (23:6) In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. (23:7) Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; (23:8) But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
Don't be a silly cancellationist.
Don't be a silly Christless reader.
The people did come back, and there was a temple built and it was diminutive. It got desecrated again by Antiochus. By the 1st cent BC, everything about Israel's destiny appeared to be in shambles. Then Herod the Dictator shows up taxing everyone to death with his temple--what an improvement. There is no feeling that any of that was really what the prophets had in mind, just dismay. Judaism sent out missionaries in its version of being a light to the nations, and that was denounced by Christ in Mt 23. That's the setting Christ comes in to, and says that he is the fulfilled temple and everything Judaism pointed toward.
But there is nothing about the land, only about the mission, the true message of grace in the Gospel, to the nations, beginning in Israel and surging out.
That combined with the concensus that the temple age was to be destroyed in that generation was why cancellation was not silly. Judaism generally did not seek to do anything about the temple again; there was still a zealot movement that did, the Bar Cochba revolt of 135 AD. But Judaism (in its unbelieving form) continued in synagogues. You might check with them about a 'land promise.' They heard the facts of history rather clearly. There's nothing.
The reason Jews came back in the 19th century is not a land promise; it is much more like any indigenous people wanting to be back in traditional lands. That's why there is no work of the Holy Spirit in it at all, there is even atheist terrorists involved (and celebrated by "Christian" teachers like those of TBN who regularly show the movie EXODUS).
David said the resurrection of Christ is his enthronement, and the apostles said the raised tent of David is the Gentile's who believe. Isaiah is quoted in Acts 13 that the promises were transferred from David to Christ.
Your belief system, when compared to the AAL, is utter fantasy.