I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that
you may not be conceited: Isreal has experienced a hardening in part
until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all
of Isreal will be saved.."
Romans 11:25-26
Starting in Chapter 11 verse 11, Paul is speaking of the Gentiles being grafted on the tree of Jesus' decendency. Some of the Jewish branches are pruned to make room for all of the Gentiles that come to belief but later the pruned branches will be returned.
I had always believed that the Jews would have to come to belief and if they didn't they would be left behind like other believers but this is not at all what Paul says. All of Isreal (the Jews) will be saved and I think that is amazing! Our Lord made a covenant with Isreal and he will remain true but he also is making room for the "full number" of Gentile believers. Paul also says in verse 11 that "because of their trangression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Isreal envious," verse 14 says "in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them." God is so good to use Gentile believers to return his own people home.
It amazes me that everytime you read the Bible some new bit of information is brought to your attention and gives you pause to realize the interconnecting magnitude of Adonai's plan. In Paul's time he is already numbering the believers that will come to him. I am so thankful that I am one of his chosen and that for me he gave his life. What better gift could we be given and how do we EVER repay that?
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Israel can be the Jews but the Jews is not Israel. Israel can also be many other races, such as Englishmen, Americans, Indians, Indonesians, Singaporeans, Taiwanese, Koreans, and Russians. Someday in the future, many gentiles from East Asia such as Chinese and Japanese may also become Israel. Israel is a spiritual state, not a political state. Let's pray that Israel will come soon to our life. God bless you.
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