KMT---Few are really interested in the Word of God. They prefer the
fables of the world rather than the truths of God.
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May the Holy Spirit give you a spirit of wisdom and understanding
as you read. We pray that the will of God be done and may He be
glorified in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Concerning Rom. 11:25-32.
The key verse to understand this group of verses is:
"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."
Has the deliverer come? Yes.
Has He turned ungodliness from Jacob? Here is the key question?
We know that by the Spirit in our hearts that prophecy cannot fail.
We know if God said He will turn ungodliness from Jacob, then He will
do it. God gave us these prophecies hundreds of years before the Jesus' day.
If we consider the Jews of today as Israel, then it appears that the
prophecies failed. So, the question is, who is "ALL ISRAEL"
I struggled with these verses for years until the Lord revealed His truth.
God answers the question in His Word.
Turn to Rom. Ch.9 and read verses 4-8 carefully. Verse 6 unfolds
the mystery. "Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect.
FOR THEY ARE NOT ALL ISRAEL WHICH ARE OF ISRAEL:
When the light of this verse first hit me, I saw the whole picture.
Notice verse 8, "That 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."
Refer to Gal.,3:16: Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of
many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ"
God is telling us that there are true Israelites and there are false Israelites.
The way to recognize the True Israelites is to find those with FAITH in God.
WOW-----Who are the children of the Promise--
Those who have Faith in Jesus.
Now turn to Rom.11 and read verses 1-6. The Spirit begins by "I say
then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid."
The only people God has ever had are those that have had the Faith
of Abraham.
Now turn to verse 5. "Even so then at this present time also
there is aremanat according to the election of grace."
IT IS THAT REMNANT THAT IS "ALL OF ISRAEL"
Praise God, that is the answer to the mystery. Just as in the
days of Elijah there were only 7000 TRUE ISRAELITES-men of faith-
So in the days of Jesus there was all a Remnanat that were the
True Israel of God.
Turn to verse 7. "What then? Israel hath not obtained that
which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it,
and the rest were blinded."
All of the True Israelites in the generation of Jews during Jesus's
ministry were saved. There was first wave of salvation--The Apostles
and the disciples that the inner group were all Jews. Then as the
Apostles and disciples began to preach, tens of thousands of Jews
were saved as recoded by Acts. There were several thousands
saved in one day when Peter preached his famous sermon in Acts Ch. 2.
Read verse 40. "Then they that gladly received his word were baptized;
and the same day there were added untothem about thress thusand souls."
This verse gives us a glimpse of "ALL ISRAEL' in the process of being
saved. These waves of Jewish conversion continued until the destruction
of the Temple in 70 AD---this was the official end of the OLD COVENANT
and the end of Old Testament Judaism. We can see in the Scriputres
that many many tens of thousands were being saves. In ch 4 verse 32
it calls them a multitude. Turn to Acts 6:7. "and a great company of the
priests were obedient o the faith." We know if a great company of
priests had been coverted that their must have been tens of thusands
of Jews being converted.
After these ALL OF TRUE ISRAEL were converted, they went out and bagan
to convert the whole world. It was these Jewish Apostles that went
into the pagan Rome and pagan Greece and pagan Europe etc. and converted
our ancestors. Praise God--God's Word has been fulfilled to the T for
these with ears.
Going back to our original verse "and shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob" The Lord Jesus Christ achieve this by dying on the Cross.
When the true Jews the true sons of Jacob accepted Jesus their
ungodliness was turned away.
After the conversion of the true Israelites or true Jews, the real
Jews separated themselves from the false Jews and through the
power of the Holy Spirit, established the Church. The Jews that
rejected Jesus established was God called "THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN" Rev 2;9 and 3:9.
Since God had destroyed the Temple, the Priesthood, the Genealogies,
the Ark of the Covenant and all the Temple furniture, the old
Temple Judaism no longer existed. The NEW COVENANT in Jesus' blood
had replaced the OLD COVENANT. The OLD COVENANT was now dead.
Hebrews 8:13 "In that he saith, a new covenant, he hath made the first old,
Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away."
The old Covenant has indeed vanished away and been relplaced
with the glorious NEW COVENANT in JESUS' BLOOD.
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Romans 2
28: For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in
the flesh:
29: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and
not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
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Galatians 3
16: Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of
many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
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Galatians 3
29: And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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