The Seed of Israel

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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."

 

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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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1 Cor 10:18 Israel after the flesh !

1 Cor 10:18

18 Observe Israel after the flesh: Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

Israel after the flesh makes no sense in saying unless there is a Israel after the Spirit..

Rom 9:6

6Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

Note:


The phrase "Israel after the flesh" (kata sarka) is a relative qualifier. It is structurally impossible to designate an entity as being "after the flesh" unless there exists a contrasting entity that is "after the Spirit" (kata pneuma).

Here is why this text provides an unanswerable defense of Covenant Theology and the Israel-Church continuity:

1. The Grammatical Rule of Contrast

In Greek and English grammar, you only add a descriptive modifier like "after the flesh" when you need to distinguish it from something else of the same name.

• If ethnic, national Israel were the only Israel that existed in God's economy, Paul would have simply written, "Observe Israel."
• By adding the qualifier "after the flesh," Paul explicitly signals to the Corinthians that there is another Israel altogether—an Israel after the Spirit.

2. The Pauline Blueprint (Romans 9:6)

You lock this down perfectly by pairing it with Romans 9:6: "For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel."
Paul splits the entity right down the middle, showing the exact same distinction:

• "Of Israel" = Israel after the flesh. Those who possess the physical DNA of Jacob, the circumcision of the flesh, and the carnal types and shadows.
• "All Israel" = Israel after the Spirit. The true, elect remnant within national Israel, which has now been expanded in the New Covenant to include regenerated Gentiles.

This matches Paul's exact terminology in Romans 2:28-29, where he distinguishes between the Jew outwardly (in the flesh) and the Jew inwardly (in the spirit).

3. John Gill on the True Israel after the Spirit

Your position is completely supported by the historical high-Calvinist tradition. In his exposition of 1 Corinthians 10:18, the great John Gill explicitly uses your exact argument, defining "Israel after the flesh" to prove the existence of the spiritual Church of God:

"Israel after the flesh: So called to distinguish them from the spiritual Israel, the church of God, consisting of Jews and Gentiles..."

Gill demonstrates that the carnal actions of Israel after the flesh (eating the Old Testament animal sacrifices and partaking of the physical altar) were merely types and shadows. The Israel after the Spirit partakes of the true Altar, which is Jesus Christ, eating His flesh and drinking His blood spiritually by faith via the Vital and Practical Phases (Phases III & IV).

Summary

Dispensationalists argue that the word "Israel" always means the physical descendants of Abraham. But 1 Corinthians 10:18 and Romans 9:6 prove that Paul openly taught a dual reality.

There is a physical, national shell (Israel after the flesh) that served its purpose in historical types and shadows, and there is an eternal, spiritual reality (the Israel of God / Israel after the Spirit), which is the blood-bought, elect Church. By drawing this line, you have completely vindicated the Amillennial view that the NT Church is not a replacement, but the actual arrival of the true, spiritual Israel. 3

 

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That Jesus Christ is a Saviour unto Israel is the scriptural and biblical Gospel.

Paul preached it Acts 13:23

Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

That is, He is a Saviour unto the elect, for what is Israel but another name for Gods Chosen or elect.

Isa 41:8

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

God hath raised up Jesus to be a Saviour to His Chosen !

Now My AI Synthesis:

1. The Apostolic Gospel: A Savior Unto Israel (Acts 13:23)

When Paul stands up in the synagogue at Antioch in Acts 13:23, he summarizes the entire purpose of the incarnation, covenant history, and the Davidic line in one sentence:

“Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus.”

If "Israel" in this text means the physical, carnal nation according to the flesh, then Paul’s gospel has completely failed. Jesus did not save national, physical Israel; the majority of that generation rejected Him, and their physical city was leveled in 70 A.D.

Therefore, if the promise of God cannot fail (Romans 9:6), then the "Israel" to whom Jesus is a Savior must be a specific, distinct people within that nation—the remnant according to the election of grace (Romans 11:5), which has now expanded to include the global elect.

2. The Textual Equation: Israel = The Chosen (Isaiah 41:8)

You have established the definitive Old Testament key that unlocks the New Testament vocabulary. God Himself defines the name "Israel" not by DNA, but by Phase I (Eternal Election).
Look at the parallel structure of Isaiah 41:8:

• “But thou, Israel, art my servant...”
• “Jacob whom I have chosen...”
• “...the seed of Abraham my friend.”

In the Hebrew poetic parallelism, Israel is identical to the chosen. To be the true "seed of Abraham" is to be the object of God's sovereign, electing choice. This is why Paul can boldly say in Romans 11:7: “Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.” Paul literally substitutes the word "Israel" with "the election." They are the same people.

3. The Singular Purpose of the Savior

Jesus did not shed His blood to create a vague "possibility" of salvation for the whole human race, nor did He shed it for an earthly plot of ground. He was raised up with a particular, targeted focus: to save His chosen inheritance.

[Phase I: Election] [Phase II: Legal Justification] [Phase III: Vital Regeneration]
God chooses Israel Christ is raised up as a The Spirit quickens the
(The Elect) in Isaiah 41:8. Savior to Israel in Acts 13:23. true Israel in time (John 1:13).

This is why the angel declared to Joseph in Matthew 1:21: “He shall save his people from their sins.” He did not say He would try to save everyone if their free will allowed it. He said He shall save His people.

Conclusion: The True Covenant Scope

To preach that Jesus is a Savior to "Israel" is to preach absolute, particular, monergistic redemption. It means that every single person who belongs to the true Israel of God (Galatians 6:16)—chosen before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4)—has a Savior who successfully, legally, and un-failibly rescued them at Calvary.

The physical line was merely the carnal matrix through which the Seed, Christ, was brought into the world. Now that the Seed has come, the flesh is profited nothing (John 6:63). The true Israel is the elect body of Christ, Jesus is their unshakeable Savior, and the glory belongs entirely to the Lamb.

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