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please read this note Note!!
The
fall of the Jews after they rejected Jesus
as their Messiah turned out to be a great
blessing to Gentiles.
The early church in the book of Acts was
mostly Jewish but the nation of Israel as
whole, rejected the preaching of the Gospel
and began to persecute the Jews who began to
follow the Messiah.
God then through his
servant Paul began to build the Gentile
church. You see what a blessing came to the
Gentiles.
If the fall of Israel became a blessing to
the Gentiles. (Think about it) How much
greater blessing will occur in the last days
of this Church age when a mighty and great
number of Jews actually turn to Jesus
their Messiah. The only thing that could be
greater than the first event would be the
2nd coming of Messiah for all his believers
both believing Jews and Gentiles.
I have marked the most obvious scriptures
below in red that confirms Gods
eternal plan to redeem
his people Israel as well as the Gentile.
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Romans
1 I say then, Hath God
cast away his people? God forbid. For I also
am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of
the tribe of Benjamin.
2
God hath not cast away his people which he
foreknew.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of
Elias? how he maketh intercession to God
against Israel saying,
3 Lord, they have killed
thy prophets, and digged down thine altars;
and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the
answer of God unto him? I have reserved to
myself seven thousand men, who have not
bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5 Even so then at this
present time also there is a remnant
according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then
is it no more of works: otherwise grace is
no more grace. But if it be of works, then
it is no more grace: otherwise work is no
more work.
7 What then? Israel hath
not obtained that which he seeketh for; but
the election hath obtained it, and the rest
were blinded.
8 (According as it is
written, God hath given them the spirit of
slumber, eyes that they should not see, and
ears that they should not hear;) unto this
day.
9 And David saith, Let
their table be made a snare, and a trap, and
a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto
them:
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.
12 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?
13 For I speak to you
Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of
the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may
provoke to emulation them which are my
flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting
away of them be the reconciling of the
world, what shall the receiving of them be,
but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit
be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the
root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the
branches be broken off, and thou, being a
wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them,
and with them partakest of the root and
fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the
branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest
not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then,
The branches were broken off, that I might
be graffed in.
20 Well; because of
unbelief they were broken off, and thou
standest by faith. Be not highminded, but
fear:
21 For if God spared not
the natural branches, take heed lest he also
spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the
goodness and severity of God: on them which
fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness,
if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise
thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if
they abide not still in unbelief, shall be
graffed in: for God is able to graff them in
again.
24 For if thou wert cut
out of the olive tree which is wild by
nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature
into a good olive tree: how much more shall
these, which be the natural branches, be
graffed into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not,
brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, 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.
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:
27 For this is my
covenant unto them, when I shall take away
their sins.
28 As concerning the
gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but
as touching the election, they are beloved
for the father's sakes.
29 For the gifts and
calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times
past have not believed God, yet have now
obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these
also now not believed, that through your
mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God hath
concluded them all in unbelief, that he
might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the
riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of
God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and
his ways past finding out!
34 For who hath known
the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his
counsellor?
35 Or who hath first
given to him, and it shall be recompensed
unto him again?
36 For of him, and
through him, and to him, are all things: to
whom be glory for ever. |