ROMANS 11
I ask then: Did God reject HIS PEOPLE? By no means! I AM AN ISRAELITE MYSELF, A DESCENDANT OF ABRAHAM, FROM THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN. 2 GOD DID NOT REJECT HIS PEOPLE, WHOM HE FOREKNEW. Don’t YOU know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel: 3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”? 4 And what was God’s answer to him? “I HAVE RESERVED FOR MYSELF SEVEN THOUSAND WHO HAVE NOT BOWED THE KNEE TO BAAL.” 5 So too, at the PRESENT TIME THERE IS A REMNANT CHOSEN BY GRACE. 6 And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
7 What then? WHAT THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL SOUGHT SO EARNESTLY THEY DID NOT OBTAIN. THE ELECT AMONG THEM DID, but THE OTHERS WERE HARDENED, 8 as it is written:
“GOD GAVE THEM A SPIRIT OF STUPOR,
EYES THAT COULD NOT SEE
AND EARS THAT COULD NOT HEAR,
TO THIS VERY DAY.”
9 And David says:
“May their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
10 May their eyes be darkened so THEY cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”
11 Again I ask: Did THEY stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSION, SALVATION HAS COME TO THE GENTILES TO MAKE ISRAEL ENVIOUS. 12 But if THEIR TRANSGRESSION MEANS RICHES FOR THE WORLD, and THEIR LOSS MEANS RICHES FOR THE GENTILES, how much greater riches will THEIR FULL INCLUSION BRING!
13 I AM TALKING TO YOU GENTILES. Inasmuch as I AM THE APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES, I take pride in my ministry 14 in the hope that I may somehow arouse MY OWN PEOPLE to envy and SAVE SOME OF THEM. 15 For IF THEIR REJECTION BROUGHT RECONCILIATION TO THE WORLD, what will THEIR ACCEPTANCE BE BUT LIFE FROM THE DEAD? 16 If the part of the dough offered as first fruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, SO ARE THE BRANCHES.
17 If SOME OF THE BRANCHES HAVE BEEN BROKEN OFF, and YOU, THOUGH A WILD OLIVE SHOOT, HAVE BEEN GRAFTED IN among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18 do not consider yourself to be superior to those OTHER BRANCHES. If YOU do, consider this: YOU do not support the root, BUT THE ROOT SUPPORTS YOU. 19 YOU will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” 20 Granted. But THEY were broken off because of unbelief, and YOU stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. 21 FOR IF GOD DID NOT SPARE THE NATURAL BRANCHES, HE WILL NOT SPARE YOU EITHER.
22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but KINDNESS TO YOU, PROVIDED THAT YOU CONTINUE IN HIS KINDNESS. Otherwise, YOU also will be cut off. 23 And IF THEY DO NOT PERSIST IN UNBELIEF, THEY WILL BE GRAFTED IN, FOR GOD IS ABLE TO GRAFT THEM IN AGAIN. 24 After all, if YOU WERE CUT OUT OF AN OLIVE TREE THAT IS WILD BY NATURE, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
25 I do not want YOU to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that YOU may not be conceited: ISRAEL HAS EXPERIENCED A HARDENING IN PART UNTIL THE FULL NUMBER OF THE GENTILES HAS COME IN, 26 and IN THIS WAY ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED. As it is written:
“THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION;
HE WILL TURN GODLESSNESS AWAY FROM JACOB.
27 AND THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM
WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.”
28 As far as the gospel is concerned, THEY ARE ENEMIES for your sake; but AS FAR AS ELECTION IS CONCERNED, THEY ARE LOVED on account of the patriarchs, 29 for GOD’S GIFTS AND HIS CALL ARE IRREVOCABLE. 30 Just as YOU WHO WERE AT ONE TIME DISOBEDIENT TO GOD have NOW RECEIVED MERCY AS A RESULT OF THEIR DISOBEDIENCE, 31 so THEY TOO HAVE NOW BECOME DISOBEDIENT IN ORDER THAT THEY TOO MAY NOW RECEIVE MERCY as a result of God’s mercy to YOU. 32 For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”
35 “Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay them?”
36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.
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*v1 Paul asked if God rejected HIS PEOPLE? Paul then identifies himself as an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin, Southern Kingdom, Judah.
**v2 GOD accepts His People whom He FOREKNEW.
**V4-5 THE PRESENT TIME was 1stcentury around 57-58AD when Romans was written and Paul pens that THERE IS A REMNANT CHOSEN BY GRACE just like God RESERVED 7000 during Elijah’s time.
**v7 THE ELECT obtained RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH. Non-Elect were HARDENED.
**V11 JUDAH TRESPASSES and SALVATION HAS COME TO THE GENTILES, the northern Kingdom, Israel. FULLNESS of the GENTILES coming in are those who were SCATTERED in the nations being brought back into the Kingdom via the Gospel by 70AD.
**v12 “Their” refers to the southern kingdom, Judah’s trespass which means RICHES for the gentiles in the Northern Kingdom, Israel. Riches for the “world” is the covenant world.
**v13-14 Paul is specifically speaking to GENTILES. He is trying save some Jews by making them jealous of Gentile Israelites coming into the Kingdom.
**v15 reconciliation of the covenant world
**V25 A Partial Hardening came over Israel, UNTIL the FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES came in. Some Jews were hardened. 2 Cor 3:14 “But their minds were HARDENED. For to this day (1st century), when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.”
**v26 ALL ISRAEL WAS SAVED. Christ, The Deliverer came out of ZION in 70AD within that 1stcentury generation as He said He would. The covenant world is banished of ungodliness from Jacob.
**v28 Elect Gentile or Remnant Israelites are BELOVED.
**v29 Gifts and Calling are irrevocable.
Romans 9:4 They are Israelites, and to them belong THE ADOPTION, THE GLORY, THE COVENANTS, THE GIVING OF THE LAW, THE WORSHIP, AND THE PROMISES. 5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 8:28-30 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he FOREKNEW he also PREDESTINED to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom he predestined he alsoCALLED, and those whom he called he also JUSTIFIED,and those whom he justified he also GLORIFIED.
**v30 The Northern Kingdom, Israel was at one time disobedient to YHWH but NOW have received MERCY.
(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God ACCORDING TO ELECTION might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),
**God's elect Israelites among the Roman gentile nation were being gathered in Israel's Last Days.
Hosea talks about the scattered Israelites and says they would be called NOT MY PEOPLE but prophesies that later God would regather them and then they would be called MY PEOPLE again.
Hos 1:9
Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for YE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE, and I will not be your God.
**Hosea says the number of the children OF ISRAEL will be as the ‘sands of the sea’ but God will call a ‘remnant’ out of them.
Hos 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, YE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE, there it shall be said unto them, YE ARE THE SONS OF THE LIVING GOD.
Hos 1:11
Then shall the children of Judah (southern tribes) and the children of Israel (northern tribes) be GATHERED TOGETHER, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
Now, knowing this verse in Hosea about Judah and Israel being scattered and ‘cut off’ by breaking the Mosaic Covenant but reconciled and ‘regathered’ later.
In Romans 9:24-29, Paul brings it up! Notice the question mark at the end of ‘gentile’ in
Rom 9:24:
“whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?”
Paul then quotes Hosea 1:9 to define the ‘gentile’ narrative:
25 As he says in Hosea:
“I will call them MY PEOPLE who are NOT MY PEOPLE;
and I will call her ‘MY LOVED ONE’ who is NOT MY LOVED ONE,”
26 and, “In the very place where it was said to them,*‘YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,’*
there they will be called ‘CHILDREN OF THE LIVING GOD.’ ”
Paul is telling his readers in Rome that they are the remnant descendants of the tribes of Israel, the seed of Abraham to whom the promise of the NC Kingdom was to (Rom9:3-5). The ‘called’, the elect ‘remnant’ out of the ‘sands of the sea’. They were the scattered elect (lost sheep) being regathered, reconciled back into the (sheep) fold. (the sheep from another fold)
***Here, Peter quotes the same verse!
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1Pet 2:10 Which in time past were ***NOT A PEOPLE***, but are now ***THE PEOPLE OF GOD***: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
***Peter is writing to the same audience as Paul.
The NOT MY PEOPLE were SCATTERED ISRAELITES who had been ‘cut off’ by the curse of the Mosaic Law for their ‘uncircumcision’ and idolatry.
They were transgressing (breaking) the Mosaic Law due to their ‘uncircumcision’ and were called *NOT MY PEOPLE*.
Yeshua then fulfilled that Law (Gal.4) so that they could be regathered into a New Covenant (Heb8:8) and then be called the *children of the living God*. (This was the ‘manifestation of the sons of God’)
Romans 11:5-7
Even so then, at THIS PRESENT TIME there is A REMNANT according to THE ELECTION of grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. 7What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but THE ELECT have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
**According to this passage when would a remnant according to the election of grace be? PRESENT TIME 1st century.
**What did the elect obtain?
**Who was blinded?
Romans 11:25-28
For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to ISRAEL UNTIL THE FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES (NATIONS) has come in. 26 And so ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED, as it is written:
“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness FROM JACOB;
27 For this is MY COVENANT WITH THEM,
WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.”
28Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning THE ELECTION they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.
**Who was blinded? Israel
** Who were the gentiles? The 10 Northern scattered Tribes
**Who is ALL ISRAEL? The elect remnant of the 10 Northern Tribes & 2 Southern Tribes who are saved by The Gospel.
**Who did YHWH covenant with to take away their sins? Israel.
Who was the enemies of the gospel? unelected Jews (Israel).
**Who was Jacob? The whole house of Israel both northern and southern kingdoms
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