BIBLE STUDY MANUALS: ROMANS CHAPTER 11 - OBSERVATION STAGE

ROMANS CHAPTER 11

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OBSERVATION STAGE

The purpose of the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand within the normative rules of language, context and logic which limits the observer to the content offered by the book of Romans. This will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and objective comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture.

Remember that something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in view.

*** KEY EXCERPTS FROM ROMANS CHAPTER 10 ***

OR MOVE TO RO 11:1

THE LORD THROUGH MOSES FORETOLD TO ISRAEL THAT GENERATIONS OF ISRAELITES WILL ACT CORRUPTLY TOWARD THE LORD. THERE WILL BE NO EXCUSE FOR NOT KNOWING ABOUT THEIR GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; WHEREUPON THE LORD WILL RESPOND WITH ANGER: HE WILL FORSAKE AND DESTROY THEM AND USE GENTILES AND A FOOLISH GENTILE NATION TO DISCIPLINE HER BY PROVOKING HER TO JEALOUSY AND ANGER. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE LORD WILL SURELY PRESERVE ISRAEL IN ORDER TO FULFILL HIS PROMISES TO A FUTURE GENERATION OF ISRAELITES

1) [Compare Dt 31:14-22; 32:1-21]:

THE LORD HID HIS FACE FROM THE GENERATIONS OF UNFAITHFUL ANCIENT ISRAELITES. ALTHOUGH THEY WERE GIVEN MUCH OPPORTUNITY TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD THEY WERE DISOBEDIENT AND OBSTINATELY UNFAITHFUL. CONSEQUENTLY, THE LORD TURNED AWAY FROM THEM AND TOWARD GENTILES:

HE WAS FOUND BY THOSE WHO DID NOT SEEK HIM AND REVEALED HIMSELF TO THOSE WHO DID NOT ASK FOR HIM. THIS MADE ISRAEL ANGRY AND JEALOUS

1) [Compare Isa 65:1-18]:

*** END OF EXCERPT ***

I) [Ro 11:1]:

A) THE CONTEXT OF CHAPTER 10 CONTINUES INTO 11 OF GOD'S UNIQUE TEMPORAL PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GENERATIONS OF HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE, ISRAEL. CHAPTER 11 DOES NOT TEACH OF THE ATTAINMENT OR LOSS OF ETERNAL LIFE BY INDIVIDUALS AS SOME MAINTAIN. FOR SALVATION UNTO ETERNAL LIFE WAS NEVER OFFERED TO WHOLE GROUPS OF PEOPLE, BUT TO INDIVIDUALS, ONE AT A TIME

B) HAVING ALREADY REFERRED TO SCRIPTURE TO PROVIDE THE ANSWER, PAUL EMPHATICALLY ASKS THE QUESTION, 'HAS GOD CAST AWAY HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL?' THEN PAUL DECLARES HIS ANSWER, 'CERTAINLY NOT!'

C) PAUL STATES THAT HE IS AN ISRAELITE, OF THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN IMPLYING EXPERTISE ON THE MATTER OF ISRAEL AND HER ETERNAL DESTINY

II) [Ro 11:2-5]:

A) FOREKNOWLEDGE = WHAT GOD KNOWS WITH CERTAINTY WILL COME TO PASS BECAUSE HE HAS DECREED IT AND WILL INTERVENE TO SEE TO IT THAT IT IS FULFILLED, I.E., THAT WHICH IS ACCORDING TO THE ELECTION OF GOD BEING STRICTLY BY HIS GRACE AND AS FULFILLED THROUGH HIM

1) [Compare Isa 65:8-9, 15-18]:

2) [Compare 1 Kgs 19:1-18]:

B) JUST AS A REMNANT OF ISRAELITES THROUGHOUT HISTORY WAS FOREKNOWN BY DECREE OF THE LORD TO BE PRESERVED FOR ALL ETERNITY OUTSIDE OF PERSONAL MERIT; SO AT THE PRESENT TIME A REMNANT OF ALL PEOPLES HAS BEEN FOREKNOWN AND CHOSEN BY GOD ACCORDING TO THE ELECTION OF GRACE = THE CHOICE OF GOD WITHOUT REGARD TO PERSONAL MERIT, NOT BECAUSE HE KNEW THEY WOULD CHOOSE TO BELIEVE, BUT BECAUSE HE DECREED IT

III) [Ro 11:6]:

A) JUST AS WITH ISRAEL OF THE PAST, AT THE PRESENT TIME, A REMNANT FROM THE POPULATION OF ALL MANKIND HAS BEEN CHOSEN ACCORDING TO GOD'S ELECTION OF GRACE, (= UNMERITED FAVOR), TO RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE. SO ETERNAL LIFE BEING BY GRACE CANNOT BE BY WORKS, OTHERWISE GRACE IS NO LONGER GRACE. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF ETERNAL LIFE, BEING OF THE ELECTION OF GOD'S GRACE, WERE BY WORKS THEN WORKS CAN NO LONGER BE WORKS

IV) [Ro 11:7]:

A) ISRAEL AND MANKIND THROUGHOUT HISTORY WILL LARGELY FAIL TO OBTAIN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD UNTO ETERNAL LIFE. IF INDIVIDUALS SEEK IT AT ALL, THEY SEEK IT VIA THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS; IN THE CASE OF ISRAEL VIA WORKS OF THE LAW. ON THE OTHER HAND, REMNANTS OF INDIVIDUALS THROUGHOUT HISTORY WHO ARE CHOSEN BY THE GRACE OF GOD TO HAVE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD UNTO ETERNAL LIFE WILL CHOOSE OF THEIR OWN VOLITION TO OBTAIN IT VIA A MOMENT OF FAITH ALONE IN CHRIST ALONE

B) THOSE OF ISRAEL AND ALL OF HUMANITY NOT CHOSEN BY GOD UNTO ETERNAL LIFE WILL PERSIST IN REJECTING GOD AND HIS GRACE, ESPECIALLY THE GIFT OF HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE BY FAITH, APART FROM WORKS. HENCE THEY WILL BE HARDENED BY GOD INTO THEIR WILLFUL STATE OF REJECTION OF HIM AND HIS GRACE

V) [Ro 11:8-10]:

A) GOD HARDENS THOSE WHO PERSIST IN THEIR REJECTION OF HIM AND HIS GRACE SALVATION. IN THE CASE OF RO 11:10 / PS 69:22-23, THIS HARDENING RESULTED IN GENERATIONS OF ISRAELITES DOWN TO THIS VERY DAY BEING SEALED IN THEIR OWN UNWILLFULNESS TO OBJECTIVELY SEE, HEAR AND BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS GRACE SALVATION CAUSING GOD TO CAST THEM AWAY FROM FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM UNTO HIS WRATHFUL RETRIBUTION

1) [Compare Dt 29:1-6 (cf. Ro 11:8)]:

2) [Compare Isa 29:1-11, (Ro 11:8)]:

3) [Compare Ps 69:1-24, (cf Ro 11:10)]:

*** EXCERPTS FROM ROMANS CHAPTERS 1 & 9 RE:

GOD HARDENING INDIVIDUALS IN THEIR OWN REBELLIOUSNESS ***

SEXUAL IMPURITY IS AN EXPECTED OUTGROWTH OF GODLESS AND WICKED BEHAVIOR WHEREIN GOD GIVES THE IMMORAL UNBELIEVER OVER TO SUCH DESIRES IMPLYING TEMPORAL SELF-DESTRUCTION ...

PAUL CONTINUES TO DEFEND THE SOVEREIGNTY AND HOLINESS OF GOD RELATIVE TO THE PLAGUES GOD PUT UPON PHARAOH AND EGYPT AND GOD'S HARDENING OF PHARAOH'S HEART IN THIS MATTER

**** END OF EXCERPTS (ROMANS CHAPTERS 1 & 9) ****

VI) [Ro 11:11-12]:

A) GENERATIONS OF ISRAELITES HAVE STUMBLED IN UNFAITHFULNESS, REJECTING GOD AND HIS GRACE SALVATION; BUT ISRAEL WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE A PERMANENT FALLING / CASTING AWAY FROM GOD, FOR THROUGHOUT HISTORY GOD WILL PRESERVE THE POPULATION OF ISRAELITES FROM EXTINCTION THROUGH THE SURVIVAL OF REMNANTS OF ISRAELITES WHO WILL CONSEQUENTLY BECOME FAITHFUL BELIEVERS SO AS TO FULLFILL HIS PROMISE OF A FUTURE ETERNAL KINGDOM RULED BY AN ETERNAL GENERATION OF FAITHFUL ISRAELITE BELIEVERS TO BE FOREVER HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE TO REPRESENT HIM AND HIS GRACE SALVATION TO THE WORLD

*** EXCERPT FROM ROMANS CHAPTER 9 ***

JUST AS THE LORD PREVENTED EXTINCTION OF THE NORTHERN ISRAELITE POPULATION BY PRESERVING A REMNANT OF THEM - WHO WOULD THEN BELIEVE IN AND BE TRUE TO THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM IN A MESSIAH-SAVIOR DESCENDANT THROUGH ISAAC UNTO ETERNAL LIFE HENCE TRULY RELY ON THE LORD; AND HENCE PRESERVE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FULFILLING HIS COVENENT WITH ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED ISRAEL OF A FUTURE GENERATION OF ISRAELITE DESCENDANTS OF ALL TRIBES WHO WOULD DWELL FOREVER WITH THE LORD IN THE PROMISED LAND; SO GOD INSURES THAT THERE WILL ALWAYS BE PRESERVED (SAVED FROM TEMPORAL DESTRUCTION AND PREMATURE PHYSICAL DEATH) A REMNANT OF INDIVIDUALS WHO WOULD BE FAITHFUL BELIEVERS IN EVERY AGE, JEWS AND GENTILES, I.E., ALL MANKIND, AND HENCE PRESERVE THE HUMAN RACE FROM EXTINCTION SO AS TO FULFILL HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HIS PROMISES TO MANKIND

ALTHOUGH THE PARTICULAR REMNANT OF THE TEN TRIBES OF THE ANCIENT ISRAELITES WAS SAVED FROM TEMPORAL DESTRUCTION PREVENTING EXTINCTION OF THEIR TRIBES AND THEN THEY TURNED FROM BEING GODLESS UNBELIEVERS TO BEING FAITHFUL BELIEVERS, TRULY RELIANT UPON THE LORD; NOT ALL ISRAELITES REMAINING ALIVE THROUGHOUT THE AGES WILL BE FAITHFUL BELIEVERS

*** END OF EXCERPT FROM ROMANS CHAPTER 9 ***

VI cont.) [Ro 11:11-12 cont.]:

B) ISRAEL'S TRANSGRESSION AS EVIDENCED BY HER UNFAITHFULNESS TOWARD GOD CAUSED THE LORD TO CUT HER OFF FROM TEMPORAL SALVATION / BLESSINGS AND PROVIDE THEM TO THE GENTILES INSTEAD, IN ORDER TO BEST SERVE HIS PURPOSES OF:

(1) PROCLAIMING HIMSELF AND HIS GRACE SALVATION TO MANKIND AND

(2) DISCIPLINING ISRAEL BY MAKING HER JEALOUS OF HIS WORKING WITH AND BLESSING GENTILES INSTEAD OF HER

*** EXCERPTS FROM ROMANS CHAPTERS 3, 9 & 10 RE: TEMPORAL SALVATION OF ISRAEL ***

MUCH IN EVERY WAY IS THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING A JEW - THE VALUE OF CIRCUMCISION. FIRST OF ALL THEY HAVE BEEN ENTRUSTED WITH THE VERY WORDS OF GOD AS CONVEYED TO THEM DIRECTLY AND THROUGH OTHERS AS RECORDED IN SCRIPTURE GIVING THEM THE RESPONSIBILTY TO OBEY, REPRESENT GOD AND CONVEY THOSE WORDS TO THE WORLD

TO THE ISRAELITES: THEIRS IS THE ADOPTION BY GOD AS SONS, AND THE GLORY OF GOD TO EXPERIENCE ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN, AND THE COVENANTS GOD HAS MADE WITH THEM, AND THE LAW GIVING, AND THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVICE OF WORSHIP OF GOD IN THE TABERNACLE AND THE TEMPLE, AND THE PROMISES WHICH ARE CONNECTED WITH THE COVENANTS GOD GAVE TO THE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM THROUGH ISAAC AND JACOB

PAUL DECLARES TO HIS BROTHERS, I.E., FELLOW BELIEVERS THAT HIS HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR THE ISRAELITES IS THAT THEY MAY BE SAVED, I.E., PRESERVED FROM PREMATURE PHYSICAL DEATH AND TEMPORAL DESTRUCTION BY BECOMING BELIEVERS WHO TRULY RELY ON THE LORD

*** END OF EXCERPTS FROM ROMANS 3, 9 & 10 ***

VI cont.) [Ro 11:11-12 cont.]:

C) ISRAEL'S TEMPORARY FALLING AWAY FROM THE LORD TRANSLATED INTO RICHES, I.E., TEMPORAL BLESSINGS FOR THE WORLD - TO A UNIQUE GROUP COMPRISED OF FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF THE LORD OF JEWS AND GENTILES ALIKE. AND IN THE FUTURE, SO MUCH THE MORE WILL ISRAEL'S TEMPORARY FALLING AWAY TRANSLATE INTO ISRAEL'S FULLNESS WHEN THE FULL NUMBER OF JEWS DECREED AND CHOSEN BY GOD TO BECOME FAITHFUL BELIEVERS AND SERVANTS OF THE LORD COMPRISES HER PERFECT COMPLETION OF BEING GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE. THIS TIME FOREVER

VII) [Ro 11:13-14]:

A) PAUL MAGNIFIED = GLORIFIED HIS MINISTRY TO THE GENTILES IN FRONT OF FELLOW JEWS SO THAT HIS WORK MIGHT COME TO THEIR ATTENTION IN ORDER TO PROVOKE THEM TO JEALOUSY AND SAVE SOME OF THEM FROM TEMPORAL DESTRUCTION - THIS TIME AS PART OF A UNIQUE GROUP OF FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF THE LORD OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL AND COMPRISED OF JEWS AND GENTILES ALIKE

VIII) [Ro 11:15-16]:

A) GOD'S CASTING AWAY OF GENERATIONS OF UNFAITHFUL, UNBELIEVING ISRAELITES FROM HIS UNIQUE, PERSONAL, TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM AS A GROUP OF PEOPLE PROMPTED GOD'S RECONCILING FROM THE WHOLE WORLD TO HIMSELF A GROUP COMPRISED OF GENTILES AND JEWS WHO BECOME FAITHFUL BELIEVERS UNTO THEIR OWN UNIQUE, PERSONAL, TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD

B) THE WORD "FIRSTFRUIT" IS USED TO CHARACTERIZE REMNANTS OF FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF THE LORD TO BE HOLY = SET APART TO GOD AND HENCE PRESERVED FROM DESTRUCTION THROUGHOUT THE AGES SO THAT A FUTURE GENERATION OF ISRAELITES WILL SURVIVE TO BE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE. THE REMNANTS ARE DECREED TO CHOOSE TO BE OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM IN A MESSIAH-SAVIOR DESCENDANT THROUGH ISAAC, JESUS CHRIST, UNTO ETERNAL LIFE AND BE FAITHFUL TO THAT FAITH

1) [Compare Numbers 15:17-21]:

C) JUST AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE OF THE PLANT, ITS ROOT, LEADS TO SUSTAINING LIFE IN THE BRANCHES; SO THE SOURCE OF HOLINESS, I.E., BEING SET APART TO FAITHFULNESS TO GOD IN REMNANTS AND GENERATIONS OF FAITHFUL BELIEVERS, IS GOD HIMSELF, HIS RIGHTEOUS CHARACTER AND SOVEREIGN POWER

*** KEY EXCERPTS FROM ROMANS 11:1-5 WHICH POINT TO GOD'S INTERVENTION TO ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSES AND PROMISES ***

FOREKNOWLEDGE = WHAT GOD KNOWS WITH CERTAINTY WILL COME TO PASS BECAUSE HE HAS DECREED IT AND WILL INTERVENE TO SEE TO IT THAT IT IS FULFILLED, I.E., THAT WHICH IS ACCORDING TO THE ELECTION OF GOD BEING STRICTLY BY HIS GRACE AND AS FULFILLED THROUGH HIM

JUST AS A REMNANT OF ISRAELITES THROUGHOUT HISTORY WAS FOREKNOWN BY DECREE OF THE LORD TO BE PRESERVED FOR ALL ETERNITY OUTSIDE OF PERSONAL MERIT; SO AT THE PRESENT TIME A REMNANT OF ALL PEOPLES HAS BEEN FOREKNOWN AND CHOSEN BY GOD ACCORDING TO THE ELECTION OF GRACE = THE CHOICE OF GOD WITHOUT REGARD TO PERSONAL MERIT

*** END OF KEY EXCERPTS ***

C cont.) JUST AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE OF THE PLANT, ITS ROOT, LEADS TO SUSTAINING LIFE IN THE BRANCHES; SO THE SOURCE OF HOLINESS, I.E., BEING SET APART TO FAITHFULNESS TO GOD IN REMNANTS AND GENERATIONS OF FAITHFUL BELIEVERS, IS GOD HIMSELF, HIS RIGHTEOUS CHARACTER AND SOVEREIGN POWER

IX) [Ro 11:17-18]:

A) IF SOME BRANCHES / GENERATIONS OF UNFAITHFUL ISRAELITES WERE BROKEN OFF / CAST FROM GOD'S TEMPORAL SALVATION AS HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE - BROKEN OFF FROM THEIR UNIQUE TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD; AND 'YOU' A BRANCH FROM A WILD OLIVE TREE / A GENTILE REPRESENTING A UNIQUE GROUP OF GENTILE-JEWISH FAITHFUL BELIEVERS IS GRAFTED IN, 'DO NOT BOAST' BECAUSE IT DOESN'T DEPEND UPON YOU, BUT UPON THE ROOT = GOD HIMSELF

X) [Ro 11:19-21]:

A) BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF, GENERATIONS OF ISRAEL WERE BROKEN OFF FROM THEIR UNIQUE TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD, BUT THE NEW FOUND GROUP OF GENTILE / JEWISH FAITHFUL BELIEVERS OF PAUL'S TIME WHO NOW STAND IN THEIR OWN UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD, INSTEAD OF ISRAEL, MUST NOT BE HAUGHTY, BUT INSTEAD FEAR GOD WHO DID NOT SPARE THE NATURAL BRANCHES, ISRAEL, WHEN SHE DEMONSTRATED UNBELIEF. HENCE HE MAY NOT SPARE THEM EITHER IMPLYING THAT THEY MUST CONTINUE IN THE FAITH

XI) [Ro 11:22-24]:

A) CONSIDER THE SEVERITY OF GOD IN HIS RESPONSE TO GENERATIONS OF ISRAEL WHICH FELL INTO CONTINUED UNBELIEF WHEREUPON HE CUT THEM OFF FROM THEIR UNIQUE TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM. ON THE OTHER HAND, CONSIDER THE GOODNESS OF GOD WHICH HE EXPRESSED TOWARD THOSE GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO CONTINUED TO BE FAITHFUL TO HIS GOODNESS AS HE ENABLED THEM TO CONTINUE IN THEIR TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM. FINALLY, CONSIDER HOW MUCH MORE READILY ISRAEL WILL BE GRAFTED BACK INTO HER UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD WHEN SHE NO LONGER CONTINUES IN UNBELIEF

1) [Compare Ro 11:2-5]:

a) God's Foreknowledge = What God Knows With Certainty Will Come To Pass Because He Has Decreed It And Will Intervene To See To It That It Is Fulfilled, i.e., That Which Is According To The Election Of God Being Strictly By His Grace And As Fulfilled Through Him

XII) [Ro 11:25-27]:

A) THE PHRASE "THE FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES HAS COME IN RO 11:25b REFERS TO THE NUMBER OF GENTILES WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN TO BECOME FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF THE LORD AS PART OF A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS FROM THE WORLD RECONCILED WITH GOD IN A UNIQUE TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD TO REPRESENT HIM AND HIS GRACE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD, WHO WERE PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS SAINTS, SET APART TO BELONG TO JESUS CHRIST

B) PAUL UNVEILS A MYSTERY TO GENTILE BELIEVERS TO DISPEL THE POSSIBILITY THAT THEY THINK THEY MERITED THEIR NEW FOUND RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD OVER ISRAEL BECAUSE GOD CAUSED A PARTIAL / TEMPORARY HARDENING OF ISRAEL UNTIL A PREDESTINED NUMBER OF GENTILES, WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED BY GOD, BECOME FAITHFUL BELIEVERS IN GOD AND HIS GRACE SALVATION AND COME INTO A UNIQUE TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM AS PART OF A GROUP OF FAITHFUL SERVANTS FROM ALL PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, GENTILE AND JEW ALIKE

*** EXCERPT FROM RO 8:29-30 ***

THOSE THAT GOD PREDESTINED TO BE CONFORMED TO THE RIGHTEOUS IMAGE OF HIS SON HE CALLED TO BELIEVE IN HIS SON'S ATONEMENT UNTO A DECLARATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ETERNAL REDEMPTION, AND THEN DECLARED THEM GLORIFIED

*** END OF EXCERPT FROM RO 8:29-30 ***

*** EXCERPTS FROM ROMANS 11:7-10 ***

GOD HARDENS THOSE WHO PERSIST IN THEIR REJECTION OF HIM AND HIS GRACE SALVATION. IN THE CASE OF RO 11:10 / PS 69:22-23, THIS HARDENING RESULTED IN GENERATIONS OF ISRAELITES, DOWN TO THIS VERY DAY, BEING SEALED IN THEIR OWN UNWILLFULNESS TO OBJECTIVELY SEE, HEAR AND BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS GRACE SALVATION CAUSING GOD TO CAST THEM AWAY FROM FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM UNTO HIS WRATHFUL RETRIBUTION UPON THOSE GENERATIONS FOREVER

*** END OF EXCERPTS FROM RO 11:7-10 ***

C) GOD WILL CONTINUE TO PARTIALLY HARDEN, I.E., HARDEN CERTAIN BUT NOT ALL GENERATIONS OF ISRAEL IN THEIR UNBELIEF UNTIL A PREDESTINED NUMBER OF GENTILES, WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED BY GOD, BECOME FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF THE LORD AT WHICH TIME ISRAEL'S DELIVERER / REDEEMER FROM ZION WILL COME TO REMOVE HER UNGODLINESS AND RESTORE ISRAEL - A FUTURE GENERATION - TO BEING FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF THE LORD FOREVER. SO THAT ALL OF THAT GENERATION OF ISRAEL WILL BE ETERNALLY AND TEMPORALLY SAVED

D) THE FUTURE SALVATION / RECONCILIATION OF ISRAEL WITH THE LORD WILL OCCUR WHEN THE DELIVERER / REDEEMER, BOTH GOD AND JEWISH MESSIAH MAN WILL FULFILL HIS COVENANT WITH ISRAEL: TO TAKE AWAY HER SINS AND REMOVE HER UNGODLINESS SO THAT SHE WILL BECOME A NATION OF FAITHFUL SERVANTS TO THE LORD TO REPRESENT HIM AND HIS GRACE SALVATION TO THE WORLD FOREVER

1) [Compare Isa 59:1-21]:

2) [Compare Isa 26:21-27:9]:

3) [Compare Jer 31:1-34]:

XIII) [Ro 11:28-29]:

A) ACCORDING TO GOD'S ELECTION, CERTAIN GENERATIONS OF ISRAEL, BECAUSE OF THEIR WILLFUL UNBELIEF AND CONSEQUENT UNFAITHFULNESS TO THE LORD, ARE TO BE HARDENED IN THEIR STATE OF ENMITY WITH HIM UNTIL A CHOSEN NUMBER OF GENTILES BECOMES RECONCILED TO THE LORD; WHEREUPON ALL OF A FUTURE GENERATION OF ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED AND RECONCILED TO THE LORD. THE RECONCILED GENTILES ARE PART OF A GROUP COMPRISED OF FAITHFUL SERVANTS FROM THE WORLD - GENTILE AND JEW ALIKE - TO REPRESENT GOD AND HIS GRACE SALVATION IN A UNIQUE TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD

B) GOD'S ELECTION OF ISRAEL TO BE HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE AND BELOVED IN HIS SIGHT FOREVER WAS PART OF HIS UNILATERAL PROMISE TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB, TO HAVE ISRAEL AS THEIR PEOPLE AS AN EVERLASTING INHERITANCE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD

*** EXCERPT FROM ROMANS CHAPTER 4 ***

THE LORD'S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM AND TO THOSE OF HIS PHYSICAL DESCENDANTS THROUGH ISAAC THROUGH JACOB, (JEWS), WAS FOR THEM TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE AND BECOME ETERNAL HEIRS OF THE WORLD, NOT THROUGH LAW, (HUMAN DOING), BUT THROUGH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH

*** END OF EXCERPT FROM ROMANS CHAPTER 4 ***

C) THE GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD ARE IRREVOCABLE: ETERNAL LIFE IS A FREE GIFT TO WHOM ALL WHO ARE CALLED BY THE LORD TO RECEIVE WILL INEVITABLY CHOOSE TO BELIEVE IN CHRIST UNTO ETERNAL LIFE AND BE IRREVOCABLY SECURE IN IT. FURTHERMORE, GOD'S CALLING OF ISRAEL TO BE HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE AS PART OF HIS UNILATERAL COVENANT WITH THE PATRIARCHAL FATHERS, ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB IS IRREVOCABLE

XIV) [Ro 11:30-32]:

A) ISRAEL'S DISOBEDIENCE GAVE OCCASION TO A GROUP CHOSEN BY GOD - COMPRISED OF INDIVIDUALS OF THE WORLD, GENTILES AND JEWS ALIKE - TO RECEIVE THE MERCY OF GOD AND BECOME FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF THE LORD, TO BE RECONCILED TO HIM BY HIS GRACE IN A UNIQUE TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP AS HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE TO REPRESENT HIM AND HIS GRACE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD

B) FUTURE GENERATIONS OF ISRAEL WILL OBTAIN GOD'S MERCY OF TEMPORAL DELIVERANCE / RECONCILIATION WITH THE LORD THROUGH THE MERCY SHOWN BY GOD TO THE GROUP OF GENTILE BELIEVERS

C) GOD HAS COMMITTED ALL GROUPS OF MANKIND, GENTILES AND JEWS ALIKE TO DISOBEDIENCE - THE NATURAL TENDENCY OF HUMANITY - THAT HE MIGHT HAVE MERCY ON ALL OF THOSE WHO BECOME BELIEVERS - TEMPORAL DELIVERANCE / RECONCILIATION AND ETERNAL SALVATION SOLELY THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD

*** EXCERPT FROM RO 11:11-12 ***

ISRAEL'S TRANSGRESSION AS EVIDENCED BY HER UNFAITHFULNESS TOWARD GOD CAUSED THE LORD TO CUT HER OFF FROM TEMPORAL SALVATION / BLESSINGS AND PROVIDE THEM TO THE GENTILES INSTEAD, IN ORDER TO BEST SERVE HIS PURPOSES OF:

(1) PROCLAIMING HIMSELF AND HIS GRACE SALVATION TO MANKIND AND

(2) DISCIPLINING ISRAEL BY MAKING HER JEALOUS OF HIS WORKING WITH AND BLESSING GENTILES INSTEAD OF HER

*** END OF EXCERPT FROM RO 11:11-12 ***

XV) [Ro 11:33-36]:

A) IN LIGHT OF GOD'S MERCY TOWARD MAN, CONSIDER THE UNENDING DEPTH OF THE RICHES OF GOD'S WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE, HIS UNSEARCHABLE JUDGMENTS (DECREES), AND HIS UNFATHOMABLE WAYS WHEREIN NO ONE CAN BE HIS COUNSEL, NOR BE IN HIS DEBT: FOR OF HIM AND THROUGH HIM AND TO HIM ARE ALL THINGS, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOREVER. AMEN!

1) [Compare Isa 40:13 NKJV]:

2) [Compare Job 41:11 NKJV]:

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