Verse 30
Fifth, Yahweh would be their God and they would be His special people in the fullest sense that the nation had ever experienced (cf. Jeremiah 31:33; Romans 11:25-27). Everyone would know that He was with them and that they were His Chosen People.
"This covenant anticipates events and promises never realized in the first return of Israel from captivity. When the people came back to the land after 535 B.C., they were under the control of every world-dominating power including Medo-Persia, Greece, and finally Rome until A.D. 70 when the nation was destroyed by Rome." [Note: Cooper, p. 304.]
Millennial conditions are in view.
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