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The Seed of Israel

Brightfame52

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The Fable !

Titus 1:14

Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

The whole concoction of a future restoration of National Israel is premised on mere speculation and spiritual blindness to the truth; for If God did make such a promise, then the promise would be unconditional, and if so, then how and why did He cut her off as branches from the covenant olive tree because of their unbelief ? For that would be absurd and contradicts the very nature of God in being Faithful to His covenant promises in spite of our unbelief per 2 Tim 2:13

13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

But yet the false teaching of today's dispensationalist says just that, that Israel [ the nation] has been rejected only temporarily due to unbelief ! 2
 

Brightfame52

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The all Israel that will be saved !

Rom 11:26

26And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob

The all Israel that will be saved is the all Israel for which the deliverer came out of zion [ which is Christ the messiah first coming] Isa 59:20

20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

The all Israel for whom He went to the cross to redeem per Ps 130:7-8

7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

Isa 44:21-23

21Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel,[see Isa 49:3] thou shalt not be forgotten of me.

22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

23Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel

Lk:68

68Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,

This is not carnal Israel, but all the Israel of God, chosen not by race but by Grace in the Israel of God, Jesus Christ. The New Covenant with Israel is inclusive of the fullness of the gentiles and when that is completed, then cometh to pass, and so all Israel shall be saved, by the deliverer that came out of zion..

This was fulfilled during Jesus Christ first coming, and during His ministry then, He was the King that cometh unto zion..

Matt 21:1-6

1And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,

2Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an *** tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.

3And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.

4All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,

5Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ***, and a colt the foal of an ***.


6And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,

This turning of Jacob from ungodliness was accomplished by Jesus death on the cross, for it was used of God to turn many ethnic Jews of Israel to God, peter states here Acts 3:25-26

25Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

26Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. cp with Rom 11:26

26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob
 

Brightfame52

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The Gifts and Callings of God

Rom 11:29

29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

For the gifts and callings of God are without repentance; and that's why for the Fathers sake there is a remnant [ Israel of God] in Israel [ National Israel], again that's why Paul, a benjamite, a hebrew of hebrews , was made to see[converted], and that's why he had a good hope that many more of his jewish brethren would be turned to the Lord, they too being of the foreknown of God and the election of grace, of which the rest were broken off in their unbelief.

Note: When God set aside the National Covenant with Israel as a Nation being the representation of the Kingdom of God on earth as His People, that did not mean He would not still save ethnic Jews by grace.

You see those that were blinded [ Jn 9:39] were made enemies for the gentiles sake, that the elect remnant of them [ see Acts 15:14-16] may be grafted into the Olive Tree, but in regards to the remnant according to the election of grace [in national Israel], they are beloved for the Fathers sake, because the gifts and the callings of God's own eternal purpose of grace [ 2 Tim 1:9] and not race.

For God did not repent of His purpose of Judicial blindness unto the nation of Israel [ Jn 9:39] nor of His purpose and calling of the election of grace of the gentiles for James says:

Acts 15:17-18

17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

This blinding of national Israel and introducing of the gentiles into covenant relationship with the elect remnant of the jews, was all of Gods doing .. 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? 2
 

Brightfame52

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God has not changed towards Israel

For God has not changed His purpose of Grace towards Israel, for He keeps His covenant faithfulness [ in spite of the rejection of Him by the jews of national Israel] He keeps His promise by converting the remnant according to the election of grace..That is Paul's point in Rom 11:2

God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. That means there were Jews in Israel He foreknew in their being chosen in Christ and predestinated to the Image of His Son per Rom 8:28


28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

So God is Faithful in converting the Jews of the nation who are of the election, and He is Faithful in converting the gentiles of the nations who are of the election. And Gods plan entailed breaking off national Israel for the grafting in of the Gentiles

So in reality, it is those who believe in some kind of postponement theory [ jewish fable] that have no understanding of Gods immutability, for they fail to see Gods purpose in national Israel fall [ Matt 21:42-43 ] and the grafting in of the gentiles per Acts 15:17-18


17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world

Notice how this calling of the gentiles is associated with the building up of the tabernacle of David vs

16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

This building again was in a spiritual way. Notice how the terminology of building is used by Paul with the adding of the gentiles to build the temple of God Eph 2:19-22

19Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;


20And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

21In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

22In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit

We should all know that the temple was built after the pattern of the tabernacle..

So vs 29 of Romans 11 is emphatically stating that the gifts and callings to the remnant Jews, and the remnant gentiles are without repentance by God; for this is evidenced by the everlasting covenant to Israel has not been annulled by the reject and blindness of National Israel in part, because the election [ within the nation] hath obtained the promises of the everlasting covenant along with the elect gentiles in the world, and this was the Mystery, but now being revealed by the Gospel.


"To claim that God postponed His kingdom because national Israel rejected Christ is to argue that human rebellion caught the Creator off guard. God's purpose of grace has not shifted an inch. National Israel fell precisely as scripted so that the elect Gentiles could be grafted into the single, eternal Israel of God. The gifts and calling to the remnant are unchangeable because they depend on God’s sovereign immutability, not human cooperative alignment."
 

Brightfame52

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Romans 11:32 is one of the most misunderstood and wrested verses in the entire New Testament:

“For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.”
—Romans 11:32

False teachers and their followers routinely have a field day with this text, ripping it out of its structural context to manufacture either a synergistic universal opportunity or a flat-out universalism. But Paul is not speaking about every single individual on earth. This verse is the grand climax of Paul's exposition of the mystery of the gospel age!

Look at how Paul defines this mystery elsewhere:

“...lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”
—Romans 11:25

“...according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,”
—Romans 16:25

“How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery...”
—Ephesians 3:3
The mystery is the precise structural mechanism by which God is gathering His One Chosen People out of two distinct groups. The partial blindness of national Israel was sovereignly ordered by God for a specific purpose: to open the door for the grafting in of the Gentiles into Covenant Israel.

The Divine Succession of Unbelief and Mercy

When Paul says God shut up "all" in unbelief to have mercy on "all," he is speaking about Jews and Gentiles as distinct classes of people. God has operated by a historical succession:
  1. The Old Testament Era (Gentiles Shut Up): For thousands of years, the Gentiles for the most part were left in unbelief, spiritual darkness, and ignorance regarding the true way of salvation. God's focus was restricted to a physical nation.
  2. The New Testament Era (Jews Shut Up): Under the New Covenant, the tide completely changed. The physical nation of Israel has been cut off and shut up under judicial blindness, while the gospel has exploded across the Gentile world.
Why did God arrange history this way? So that the Gentile Church would now become the very instrument used by God to call the elect Jewish remnant into fellowship with Jesus Christ!

The text explicitly shows that the elect Jews will come to faith through the ministry of the Church, which is now predominantly Gentile:

“Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?”
—Romans 11:12
This beautiful gospel enrichment was prophesied long ago:

“But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.”
—Isaiah 61:6
The Gentile Church is being used by God up until the very end to call out of national Israel a people for His name's sake, just as He previously visited the Gentiles to call out a people for His name's sake (Acts 15:14).

The Verdict: Mercy Only Upon the Vessels of Mercy

Therefore, "all" means all groups containing the election of grace. God shut down the Gentiles in the OT, and He shut down the Jews in the NT, so that He might have sovereign mercy on the elect remnant within both groups.
This matches the exact high-Calvinist commentary of John Gill on Romans 11:32:

“...that he might have mercy upon all; not upon every individual of the Jews and Gentiles, for all are not saved... but upon all the elect of God among them both; who are called ‘all’, because they consist of all sorts, of every nation, tongue, and people...”
These are the true targets of Romans 11:32. They are not an autonomous, self-determining crowd. They are the specific:

“...vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?”


—Romans 9:23–24

The Bottom Line

Romans 11:32 does not support free-will synergism. It highlights the absolute sovereignty of a Triune God who governs the rise and fall of nations, hardens whom He wills, blinds whom He wills, and uses the preaching of His Church to effectively gather every single vessel of mercy chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. Halleluiah! 3


 
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