Ezekiel 36:25-27 -- 25Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. (King James Version)
God will regather his people, sprinkle water on them and cleanse them from their iniquities... Then give them a new heart and will put his (God's) spirit within them, which will cause them to walk righteously in his statues and be able to keep his judgments (laws/commandments).
Verse 36 -- .... I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
Question - If it is possible and even God's plan (in writing) to cleanse the Israelites, and put his own spirit in them to allow them to be able to follow his laws properly, why didn't he do it?
1. Why the need to send Jesus at all? If God was going to fix it where they were righteous and could keep his laws, isn't that what he wanted the whole time?
2. If the laws were too difficult to keep and only pointed out man's sin, as Paul taught, why would God make a false promise (or sense of hope) like that to the Jews?
3. And if he did follow through on his promise to put his spirit in them to cause them to keep his laws, how would that not violate their free will?
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