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Hello sbm, you may find this interesting to know:
http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?p=1725605#post1725605
You made some good points !
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Hello sbm, you may find this interesting to know:
http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?p=1725605#post1725605
Rom 11:8
8 (According as it is written, God hath given them [National Israel] the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear unto this day.
Isa 29:10
10For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Isa 6:9-10
9And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Its mentioned in Jn 12:37-40
37But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:
38That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
39Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
40He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Jesus himself says that it was His purpose for coming, not only to open blind eyes [ the elect remnant] but also make blind [ the rejected Nation ] Jn 9:39
39And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
The making blind of National Israel was in Line with what God had planned and purposed before the world began.
27Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
God had purposed to harden and reprobate the rest of the Nation, because He had another way determined on how all Israel shall be saved, and it was not by saving the Nation of Israel [ corporate], for God had another election of grace out of the gentiles, and their conversion and the conversion of the election of grace in National Israel, this is how all Israel will be saved. But we will get to that later in the study, but now its important to realize, that National Israel's hardening and blinding was of the LORD.
Matt 21:42
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Rom 11:9
Now we must keep in mind, that there are Two Israels , we get this from Rom 9:6 and it is not Israel the Elect Remnant, that these terrible judgments were against, but National Israel in general that these things were foretold of.
And its for a specific reason as we will see in this study.
Rom 11:9-10
9And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them
Once again, this verse is about God Judging the wicked Nation of Israel. David who was a type of Christ, and what is termed a Messianic psalm speaks a curse upon this Nation. BTW, this was the Lord Jesus Christ sentiment as well towards the wicked Nation. The Lord Jesus Christ prayed imprecating prayers against this People.
Neither does the prayer of Christ change anything or is contradictory when He prayed these words Lk 23:34
Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
This utterance was not for the nation, but for the Remnant of the Election of grace that partook in ignorance with His death.
There were some Jews who like Paul, did what they did while in ignorance and unbelief. 1 Tim 1:12-13
12And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
And so, there were other Jews of the Election of Grace, who acted in ignorance , but they will be converted none the less by the grace of God as Paul was.
But for the most part, The Lord Jesus Christ desired their destruction as a Nation, and He brought it to pass with the Roman armies later.
vs 10 continues:
10Let their [National Israel] eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
Now, it is no Love of God towards this wicked people, For , The Lord Jesus Christ is praying against their conversion, against the enlightening of their eyes of understanding.
This desire and prayer of the Blessed Redeemer has been answered and will continue to be answered.
Romans 11:10
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
I am not going to leave vs 10 as of yet, because of what it is saying, and from where it is saying it from, it would behoove us to look at the rest of the context from where this scripture was taken Ps 69:23-28
23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
This is a Messianic psalm and prophecy, and the very Spirit of Christ is in the prophet David offering the very words of Christ [1Pet 1:11] speaking His thoughts and prayers as when He was actually going through His ordeal with the jews.
Lets look at vs 24
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
For the Lord Jesus Christ is petitioning His Holy Father to pour out His Wrath on this ungodly nation, His Indignation, and His wrathful anger, this is very serious, I cannot perceive no Love of Christ towards this people, not with such vengeful words as these.
vs 25 He prays for that nation [ their habitation ] be left desolate, for Job speaks of the desolation of the wicked Job 15:34
34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Now how many times did the Lord call this people hypocrites?
Matt 23:13-15,23,25-29
13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
14Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone
25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
And Jesus finally said Matt 23:38
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
See how Job's scripture comes to pass with this wicked nation?
Jesus asked them a rhetorical question ! How could they escape the damnation of hell Matt 23:33
33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
And remember just back in vs 15 He called them children of Hell !
If you think this is a beloved people of God, you are sorely deceived.
Still can't get to verse 11 -
dw
You are very impatient ! I have already told you I am going verse by verse. You should be paying attention to the verses leading up to vs 11. And just think, you have the nerve to be talking about contextual..
I have read your HALF truths coupled with your proganda half ERROR and verse 11 will expose your half ERROR.
dw
Those verses leading up to vs 11 are very important, for they were actually expressing the very mind of Christ on that nation and people, Israel according to the Flesh. He was not referring to Israel of the Election of Grace. Its Two Israel's Rom 9:6. One was a very small spiritual remnant the other was a nation related to Abraham by the flesh. The Israel related to Abraham only by means of the Flesh, they were not the Children of God and had no promises made unto them. Rom 9:8
8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
When scripture says this Isa 45:25
In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
This Promise is not speaking about National Israel according to the Flesh..Thats not the Seed of Israel that is being spoken of, sorry..
Lets continue to look at ps 69 as we ponder the prayer of imprecation of Christ through David against the Nation of Israel.
Ps 69:26
26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
This points again to Jesus Christ for was He not the one who was smitten of God ? Isa 53:4
4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Was He not wounded ? Isa 53:5
5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Again, this is evidence of Christ call out for vengeance on this corrupt people, this seed of the serpent.
27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Far from praying for the forgiveness of this ungodly nation [ except for the election of grace within it] Jesus prays for their guilt to increase; may they treasures up unto themselves wrath against the day of wrath, and the revelation of the righteous Judgment of God.
Now see this next curse, " let them [ The Nation ] not come into thy righteousness ! Don't we see the answer to this request here ? Rom 10:3
3For they [National Israel] being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
This prayer of Christ is not wishy washy, to be His desire one day, and not His desire the next. This nation [ except for the Election of Grace in it] will always be ignorant of Gods Righteousness and Salvation;
And to prove that I am not stretching the Truth, look at the very next verse 28
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
This indicates total exclusion from the Lambs book of life. Remember in the revelation this phrase ?
Rev 3:5,22
5He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
22:
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
The Nation of Israel as a whole has been rejected of God, excluded from the very City of God, the General Assembly and the Church of the Firstborn " WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN" [ see Heb 12:22-23]
For the the ethnic Nation of Israel as a whole, the corporate Israel, has no part in the Great Salvation of God through Jesus Christ, but again, there is a Election of Grace in her who will partake, for their names had been written in the Lambs book of Life from the foundation.
Let us not overlook that this is the inspired prayer, of the Lord Jesus Christ, through His type, the King David, for this gives us to see the very mind and heart of the Lord Jesus Christ towards this God Forsaken nation, and you can be sure that all His prayers against them hath been or will be answered according to His Mind.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
God had a wise purpose behind the fall and rejection of National Israel, for it was through this avenue He would Graft in the Gentiles with Covenant Israel of Promise [ The Election of Grace] and that would complete God's chosen Israel of God Eph 2:11-19
11Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
I have read your HALF truths coupled with your proganda half ERROR and verse 11 will expose your half ERROR.
You have made yourself clear over and over and over and over again. So there is no turning back for you now. There is no reverse. Your position has been is and shall be that God has repudiated NATIONAL ETHNIC ISRAEL for time and eternity and that the only Jews that God saves will be "remnant" Israel which you say is not or never will be ALL NATINAL ETHNIC ISRAEL!
So what is New??????? Verse 11 simply denies your proganda outright "God forbid" and demands that it is the SAME ISRAEL in verses 7-10 that is the subject of verse 11. The pronouns demand it.
The only difference between verses 7-10 and verse 11 is TIME. It is not TIME for Israel as a nation to be saved. Until that TIME arrives Israel as a nation is rejected, condemned and repudiated by God except for the remnant that God has saved and is saving and will save UNTIL it is time for God to save ALL ETHNIC NATIONAL ISRAEL at the second advent.
It is that simple!
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
The same "their" of verse 10 is the same "their" of verse 11 - case closed.
You interpret verses 7-10 to claim ETHNIC NATIONAL ISRAEL is not part of God's redemptive plan in the future but Paul in verse 11 asks that very question and then explicitly responds "GOD FORBID."
Nothing you will be able to say will change what it says!
I have read your HALF truths coupled with your proganda half ERROR and verse 11 will expose your half ERROR.
You have made yourself clear over and over and over and over again. So there is no turning back for you now. There is no reverse. Your position has been is and shall be that God has repudiated NATIONAL ETHNIC ISRAEL for time and eternity and that the only Jews that God saves will be "remnant" Israel which you say is not or never will be ALL NATINAL ETHNIC ISRAEL!
So what is New??????? Verse 11 simply denies your proganda outright "God forbid" and demands that it is the SAME ISRAEL in verses 7-10 that is the subject of verse 11. The pronouns demand it.
The only difference between verses 7-10 and verse 11 is TIME. It is not TIME for Israel as a nation to be saved. Until that TIME arrives Israel as a nation is rejected, condemned and repudiated by God except for the remnant that God has saved and is saving and will save UNTIL it is time for God to save ALL ETHNIC NATIONAL ISRAEL at the second advent.
It is that simple!
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
The same "their" of verse 10 is the same "their" of verse 11 - case closed.
You interpret verses 7-10 to claim ETHNIC NATIONAL ISRAEL is not part of God's redemptive plan in the future but Paul in verse 11 asks that very question and then explicitly responds "GOD FORBID."
Nothing you will be able to say will change what it says!