(Through the Bible) Romans 11-12 — Chuck Smith

Romans 11: Israel, the Gentiles, and the Sovereignty of God

So, we turn now in our Bibles to Romans 11. Chapters 9 -11, Paul is dealing with a couple of subjects. One, the sovereignty of God. But it is the sovereignty of God in setting aside the nation Israel as God's primary target, you might say, for work.

And beginning to pour out His Spirit and work among the Gentiles. And because Paul is a Jew, through and through, his heart, his prayer for Israel is that they might be saved. And yet he can see in the Scriptures those prophecies of God's move among the Gentiles.

And so, in the latter portion of chapter 10, he gives some of those prophecies of how God was going to be found of them that did not seek for Him. He was going to manifest Himself under the Gentiles. But of the Jews, he said, all day long have I stretched out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

So, chapter 11 is just really a continuation of chapter 10. The chapter distinctions were not in the original writings. They have been placed there by men to help us to reference Scriptures, to reference passages.

But sometimes we have a tendency of just reading a chapter and quitting and then beginning a new chapter and you're not continuing in the same thought as though there were not the chapter or verse distinctions.

So, you must remember that in the original, this was just one continuous letter. Chapter verse distinguishing facts are placed there by man only for the help in referencing passages. So, God has said He was going to manifest Himself under the Gentiles.

He had stretched out His hands all day long to the disobedient and gainsaying people. I say then, have God cast away His people? And the answer is, God forbid. Now, it is unfortunate that there is a certain branch of theologians today who do declare that God has cast away His people.

And they endeavor to spiritualize Israel to make it apply to the Church. And those prophecies that relate to Israel, they seek to relate to the Church. And as a consequence, they really get the whole prophetic picture totally confused.

There are those who seek to identify the Anglo-Saxon nations as Israel. And there's a lot of talk concerning the ten lost tribes, which is not really a true scriptural type of a reference. He said the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Sent them to the lost sheep, but He didn't say anything about ten lost tribes. But just those who were lost. The lost sheep in the house of Israel. The Lord knows exactly who the ten tribes are, where the twelve tribes are.

And who comprises the twelve tribes. And in the book of Revelation, the Lord will be sealing twelve thousand out of each tribe to preserve them through a portion of the judgments in the book of Revelation.

But again, to try to make the Church Israel or to make the Anglo-Saxon race Israel is just unscriptural and it is not valid at all. They use such arguments as the nation of Denmark, they say is actually Dan's mark.

The tribe of Dan then are the Danish people. And the word ish in Hebrew means man. So Dan ish. So they're Danish people or Danish people, according to a different pronunciation, but it's Dan ish. And of course, you have the British and foolish.

So it really doesn't prove too much. But it does confuse the whole prophetic scene. God is now working among the Gentiles and God will continue to work among the Gentiles until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

As we'll get at the 25th verse of this chapter. So the question, has God cast away His people as He threw with them forever? God forbid. The whole prophecy picture of the Old Testament dealt with Israel's fall.

But in order that they might rise again. Hosea, an interesting prophet. God told him to take a prostitute for a wife. And he began to name the children with prophetic names or names of prophetic significance.

And of course, the one child he called Lo-Amy, not my child. His wife had gone out and was engaging in her old practices again even while married to him. Had a child that wasn't his. And finally, she just left him completely.

And her life went down the tubes until she was a slave. Almost destitute and destroyed. And God said to Hosea, you can now go take her again. Buy her out of her slavery. Wash her up. Cleanse her. And take her as your wife once more.

And the whole life of Hosea with this unfaithful wife became a picture of God's relationship with the nation of Israel. How He took her, espoused her unto Himself, married her. And the glories of that first bloom of love.

But then how Israel began to turn away unto other gods. And they began to forsake the fountain of living waters and worship idols. And how they finally turned their back on God completely. But yet, God's undying love and of course, bringing them back again and God's work of restoration, which is yet future, but shall be.

So, God has not cast away His people in a final sense. For Paul said, I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin. Now Benjamin was one of the supposed lost tribes. But it sure wasn't as far as Paul was concerned.

He knew what tribe he was from. And he didn't say we Benjamites, you know, we're lost. We don't know who we are or where we are. But he knew that he was of the tribe of Benjamin. Of course, Jesus was from the tribe of Judah.

And they say that the Jews today are for the most part from the tribe of Judah. However, the other tribes were lost. Judah and Benjamin remained, but the rest of them were lost. Not so. That is not the case.

Though most Jews today have lost their genealogies and could not tell you exactly what tribe they are from, yet they know that they are Jews. And so Paul of the tribe of Benjamin, and God has not cast away His people, which He foreknew.

Don't you know what the Scripture said of Elias or Elijah? How that when he was making intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed your prophets and dig down thine altars, and I am left alone and they seek my life.

But what did the Lord answer him? I've reserved to myself 7 ,000 men who have not bowed their knee to the image of Baal. Elijah had experienced one of the greatest victories in his career. As he had challenged the prophets of Baal, there on Mount Carmel, building the altars, let's pray unto their gods, the 400 priests of Baal can pray to Him and I'll pray to the living God.

And the God that answers by fire, let Him be the God. And of course, the priest of Baal prayed and nothing happened. And Elijah prayed and God sent down fire and consumed the offering and the altar and all.

Elijah took the priest of Baal at that moment of victory down to the Brook Kishon and slayed them. Killed 400 of them, the prophets and the priest of Baal. And the next day when Jezebel, the wife of the wicked king, found out what Elijah had done, she said, God do so to me also if I don't have the head of that man.

And so Elijah fled from Jezebel. And it is so typical how that the times of greatest trial often follow the times of greatest victory. And that's with Elijah. Tremendous victory, but now he's on the lam, you know, running from this queen.

Not afraid to face up to the 400 prophets and priests of Baal, but man, one angry woman. And he ran clear on down to the area of Mount Sinai. And there he hid in a cave. And as he was standing in the entrance of the cave, the Lord said, Elijah, what are you doing here?

And he said, I have been zealous for God. And they've all turned from you. I'm the only one you've got left and they're seeking my life. God, you're just about out of business. I'm your last one. And they got a contract out on me.

And so God responded to Elijah. I have 7000 who have not bowed their knee to Baal. There was the remnant, the faithful remnant that were there and God knew who they were and God had them numbered. And as Paul is going to point out, God has always had His faithful remnant, those believers among the Jewish people.

Those special persons, super special persons, among the Jewish people who have recognized the true work of God and are walking with God in fellowship with Him. And with God, they have always been a special number, a remnant, the faithful remnant.

And so in the time of Elijah, Paul said, don't you remember that God said, there are 7000 that I have reserved unto Me? The true remnant that worshiped God, that served God, that had not turned after Baal.

Even so, Paul said, at this present time also, there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And so there were those in Paul's day. And of course, the early church was a Jewish church to begin with.

There were some problems when even it was thought that they might introduce Gentiles into the church. It was, first of all, strictly Jewish. But among the Jews, there were many believers. The remnant.

God's faithful remnant who now are according to the election of grace. And if it is now by grace, it is no more of works. Otherwise, grace is no more grace. But if it is of works, then it is no more grace.

In other words, grace and works are mutually exclusive. If I am expecting God to accept me by His grace, then there is no work that I can do to make me acceptable. If I am seeking to be accepted by God by my works, then grace has no effect upon my life.

They are mutually exclusive, and yet we're so often trying to make a combination out of the two. Say by faith, but oh, you know, let me do my works. But if it is of grace, then it cannot be of works. If it is of works, then it cannot be of grace.

They are mutually exclusive. What then? Israel has not obtained that which it sought for, but the election have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. Now, what was Israel seeking? They were seeking to be righteous before God.

That was the whole purpose of the sacrifices of the law in order to develop a righteous standing before God. Now, it is interesting that Paul makes reference here that they were seeking it by works. And that continues to the present day.

A Jew today is seeking to be accepted by God on the basis of his good works. Yom Kippur is not a day of sacrifice. The priest entering in with the offering before the Lord in the Holy of Holies. But Yom Kippur is a day of reflection.

As you sit and you reflect upon your good works and upon your evil works and balancing the good works against the evil, so it is a seeking acceptance by God on the basis of works. Paul speaks about them doing it in his day.

They are doing it to the present day. Still seeking an acceptance by God on the basis of their works. The Jews are not alone in that. That same concept has crept over into the church. So that in many different churches there are people who are looking to their works as the basis of being accepted by God.

And God will accept me if I am faithful to the ordinances of the church and the sacraments of the church. And if I am doing this and this and this. And they are looking for acceptance on the basis of their good works.

Now, when you are looking to your good works as the basis of your acceptance before God, surely that does prompt a lot of works. And so these people are really workers. They have a practice of going around, many of them from door to door.

And it's easy to tell the difference from where they're coming from. If they're riding bicycles and have shirts and ties, then you know that they're working their way through the Mormon system. If they carry a little magazine bag, then you know that they're working their way through the Jehovah Witness system.

But they are both systems that are predicated upon works and looking to their works as the basis of being accepted. But if it is of works, then it is no more of grace. It can't be of both. So, Israel did not obtain that acceptance before God, that righteous standing, because they sought it by their works.

Whereas the election did obtain it, the election of grace, but the rest were blinded. According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, ears that they should not hear until this day.

And David said, notice how Paul just starts quoting passages of Scriptures out of the Old Testament to prove his point. And this is good, solid teaching. When a man will make a statement and then give you three or four verses to confirm that statement.

And so he quotes first from Isaiah, then he quotes from David. And he said, let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense unto them. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see and bow down their back always.

I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Have they stumbled that, you know, they should be put out of the game forever? God forbid, but rather that through their fall, there has come salvation unto the Gentiles in order to provoke them to jealousy.

Now, if the fall of them be the riches of the world, in other words, by Israel falling out of the place of divine favor in the sense that God now set them aside, that He might work among the Gentiles His work of grace.

They're being set aside, brought to us, the riches of God's grace, goodness and love unto the Gentiles. The diminishing of them are the riches of the Gentiles. How much more will their fullness be? God is yet to work with them.

And when the fullness comes and God begins to work again with Israel, if their fall brought such glory to the Gentile world, what will it be when God restores them? But of course, the kingdom age and that glorious age to which we look.

The Apostle to the Gentiles and Salvation by Faith

For I speak unto you Gentiles and as much as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office. So Paul now turns to speak to the Gentiles and he calls himself the apostle of the Gentiles. And Paul, of course, paid quite a price for this position as apostle to the Gentiles.

He had to take all types of gut from people, especially from the Jews. They considered him a traitor because he was telling the Gentiles that they did not need to obey the law of Moses to be accepted by God.

All they had to do was believe in Jesus Christ. He was telling the Gentiles that they did not have to offer sacrifices in the temple in order to be saved. All they had to do is believe in Jesus Christ.

And of course, this created quite a conflict between those Jews who were still seeking a righteousness by the law. It was a threat to them. Even as the declaration that a person can be saved through faith in Jesus Christ alone today is a threat to many church and church systems.

I have a friend who was in the Anglican church in Canada. He was a dean in one of the cathedrals there. And this man became born again, really turned on to the Lord. And he began to have prayer meetings with the Episcopalians or the Anglican church, their same thing.

And in these prayer meetings, people really were beginning to experience the power of God and the Holy Spirit in their lives. And the church was a very liberal church and that was quite fine. If that makes you feel good, you know more power to you.

Very tolerant attitude, but then he started teaching the people, hey, you've got to be born again. And he was kicked out because that was contrary to the basic church belief that you were born again when you were baptized as an infant.

And then later your confirmation, you were only confirming your salvation at infant baptism. And when he started to say, you've got to be born again, it created such a problem that he was dismissed from his church for teaching the people that you've got to be born again.

You see, they were trusting in their works, infant baptism and confirmation. Instead of just that faith in Jesus Christ. So, Paul magnifying his position as the apostle as he sought to provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, that I might save some of them.

So he was just really in his heart, as he said, my heart's prayer and desire for Israel is that they might be saved. And even though he was called of God as the apostle to the Gentiles and was into all kinds of hot water for preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, declaring that Gentiles could be saved, especially could be saved apart from becoming a Jew.

They could be saved by just believing in Jesus Christ. They didn't have to proselytize and become a Jew. That made him a heretic. And for this reason, they tried to kill him. When he was in Jerusalem.

But yet Paul's desire and prayer for Israel was for their salvation. But he goes on to say, if the casting away of them was the reconciling of the world, God reconciled the world to himself through Jesus Christ.

Not just the Jewish people, but now the world. What shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead? Again, dealing with the contrast from the lesser to the greater. If their casting away brought such reconciliation of the world to God, the Gentile world, then what will it be when God receives them again?

His divine favor and grace upon them. For if the first fruit be holy, the whole lump is also holy. And if the root is holy, so are the branches. Talking of course, the first fruit, Abraham, and the patriarchs, the fathers.

The root from which these people sprang. And if some of the branches were broken off and you being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them, and you have partaken of the root and the fatness of the olive tree, don't boast against the branches.

But if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root thee. And thou wilt say then, the branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. Well, it was because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith.

Don't be high-minded, but fear. So, there has been through history of the church a very unfortunate relationship between the church and the Jews. And unfortunately, the church has been responsible for much of the persecution of the Jews today.

And I think that that is indeed tragic. That for years, the Catholic Church led in the persecution of the Jews. And it was something that when Martin Luther broke away from the Catholic Church, he carried with him his anti-Semitism.

And Martin Luther also encouraged the persecution of the Jews. So, it crept on into Protestantism. And there are many Protestant ministers today who are very anti-Semitic. And I get hate mail from them because of my known position of support for Israel and for the Jews.

There are those who would boast themselves against the natural branches. God's cut them off. God's through with them. We're now, you know, the people. And all he says, wait a minute. You're a wild olive branch and you've been grafted into the vine or into the tree contrary to nature.

And they were broken off because of their unbelief. And you're only standing by faith, so don't be so high-minded. I do believe that as Paul, our hearts and desires and prayer for Israel is that they should be saved.

Now, that doesn't mean that I have a great burden to establish a Calvary Chapel in Jerusalem and to start a mission there to save the Jews. I do not feel that God has called me as an evangelist to the Jewish nation or to the Jewish people per se.

God has called me really to just teach His Word. And that I seek to do faithfully. However, I do not feel that I can undo what God has done. And that is why I don't have a great burden for Jewish evangelism.

And so in this, I'm neither fish nor fowl. I get it from both sides because there are some people who have a tremendous zeal for Jewish evangelism. That I don't have. I believe that God will evangelize them when He's ready.

And that God will graft them back in when He's ready. And that God will open their eyes when He's ready. In the meantime, God has poured out His grace, His Spirit upon the Gentiles. And thus, I like to fish where the fish are biting.

And so, these are the fruitful fields among the Gentiles. And I really feel that for the most part, Jewish evangelism is a waste of church finances that can be better used to evangelize the Gentiles at this time.

And that when the day comes, God Himself is going to reveal Himself to the Jewish nation, to Israel, and God is going to work there among them. So, I like to go over and provoke them to jealousy. Tell them how wonderful their Messiah is.

What He's done for me and how much I love Him and how glorious it is to walk in such fellowship with God and to have peace with God and the joy of the Lord and all. And just, oh, what a glorious Messiah they have.

And I like to provoke them to jealousy. But I am quite interested. I do share with them and I share my beliefs and my faith with them. But I am amazed at how blind they are. I really am. Because some of them are extremely knowledgeable in the Word of God.

And yet they are so totally blind when it comes to Jesus Christ. Blindness has happened to Israel. And that is true. When I was speaking a few years back at an international congress in Jerusalem, sharing the platform with Prime Minister Begin, then Prime Minister Begin, I got some hate mail from some of the rabbis in the Mea Sherem area of Jerusalem who are ultra-Orthodox, rebuking me for trying to support the nation of Israel with understanding from the Christians.

Because the purpose of the rally was to sort of bring understanding between the Jews and the evangelical Christians. And these radical rabbis wrote me these letters rebuking me and telling me I had no business being there and Israel had no right to even exist as a nation because the Messiah had not yet come.

They did not yet have their temple. And they were very opposed to the nation of Israel themselves. So they lived there in the Mea Sherem district of Jerusalem. But they did write to King Hussein in Jordan and they asked him to annex Mea Sherem into Jordan.

They didn't want to have anything to do with the nation of Israel. They feel that it's sort of an illegitimate state right now. And so they wrote me these letters. And also, these guides who I had been talking to for so long and witnessing to, I said, hey fellas, I want to show you.

They were so pleased. Oh, this is so wonderful. This is wonderful. And all this kind of stuff. I said, look what some of your rabbis sent me. And I gave them these eight letters that I had from the rabbis there.

And they read it and they said, oh, that's junk. That's junk. Those guys are just a bunch of religious fanatics. It's just that. They don't know what they're talking about. They're just religious fanatics.

I said, but they're rabbis. Oh, yeah, but they're just religious fanatics. I said, you mean a rabbi can be a religious fanatic? Oh, yeah, yeah. I said, have you ever stopped to think that it was probably those same kind of rabbis that rejected Jesus as the Messiah because He didn't fit the patterns?

A bunch of radicals. And yet you today are following those radicals. They didn't have much to say. So I get my little witness in, but they were broken off because of their unbelief and we only stand by faith.

For if God spared not the natural branch, take heed lest He also spare not thee. Jesus said, I am the true vine. My Father is the husbandman. Every branch in Me that bears fruit, He washes it that it might bring forth more fruit.

Now you are clean through the word that I have spoken unto you. Abide in Me. Let My words abide in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, neither more can you except you abide in Me.

Abide in Me. The emphasis of abiding. We are branches. We've been grafted in contrary to nature. We receive the blessings of God. The blessings of the promises of God to Abraham and to David. We have received the benefit of them through receiving Jesus Christ.

And we partake of the fatness and the richness and the fullness of God's love and grace that He had promised unto Abraham and unto Isaac and unto Jacob and unto David. But we only stand by faith. And again, we are encouraged to abide there.

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee. Behold, therefore, the goodness and the severity of God. On them which fell it was quite severe upon the fall of Israel from the place of God's favor and blessing.

Severity. But toward thee, the goodness, if you continue in His goodness, otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

So when they turn from their unbelief, God will receive them again. For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and you were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, you were cut out of this wild olive tree of the Gentile race.

And you've been grafted into the good tree. How much more shall these which are the natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree? For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits.

Ignorant of what mystery? That God is yet going to deal with the nation of Israel as the nation of Israel. And unfortunately there are many people who are ignorant of that mystery. And many ministers ignorant of that mystery.

Blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. God has sent His Spirit into the world, into the highways and byways, to compel men to come to the supper. As Jesus gave the parable, you know, of the kingdom.

How the king had prepared a great supper. And they said, go out to the invited guest and invite them to come in and to eat. And the servants came back and they said, well, you know, they said that they couldn't come and the various excuses.

And so the king said, then go out to the highways and byways and compel men to come in that my house may be full. The invited guest rejected the invitation. And so it's come to us, the Gentiles. And blindness has happened in part to Israel.

Not to all of Israel. Again, there is that remnant. But in part to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. I do believe that God knows exactly how many Gentiles are going to be brought in to the wedding feast.

That God knows the exact number. If He is an omniscient God, He has to know the exact number. Because that means all knowledge. It means He knows everything. And I do believe that God does know and does have a specified number of Gentiles that are going to believe and to be a part of that kingdom.

And that number is referred to as the fullness of the Gentiles. Now there is another phrase in Luke 21, the time of the Gentiles. That's a little different. I believe that the time of the Gentiles technically was over in 1967.

For Jerusalem shall be trodden under the foot of the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled. But since 1967 and now, we are living in a short period of an age of grace between the time of the fulfillment of the Gentiles until the time of the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Not all the Gentiles that were to be saved were saved in 1967. A lot of you weren't, you see, and so God waited for you. But somewhere alive on the earth today is some person whom God has known and he is the last one among the Gentiles to be a part of God's glorious eternal kingdom.

And the moment that person opens up his heart to Jesus Christ, we're all going to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. I'm convinced of that. It's just like walking into Disneyland and having, you know, the lights flash and the trumpets go off and the drums roll and they say, You are the five millionth visitor to Disneyland, you know.

And everything is celebration, you know. They've been counting the people as they come through and bang, you're it, you know. Now the big, big gala celebration. And such shall be the case when the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.

I wish I knew who that person was. I think I'd be tempted to do a little coercion. God has called out a people for himself. I am so grateful that God called me. I'm so thankful that God chose me to be a part of His eternal kingdom.

Oh, the goodness and the grace of God. That I was chosen in Christ. That I should be an heir in the kingdom of God. I thank God daily for that blessing. As you should thank God daily that He chose you.

Now, when the fullness of the Gentiles is come in, then the blindness will be taken away from Israel. I believe that this will transpire when Russia is defeated by God as she invades the Middle East. I received some reports from Israel this past week of the tensions that are building up as the result of Russia's deployment of the SS -21s in Syria.

And some of the military leaders there were declaring that this is a definite threat to Israel's security and will probably mean war with Syria very soon. Knowing that war with Syria can very easily escalate into war with Russia.

We do know that Russia is going to get involved and of course as the result of those tragedies today, the tensions are mounting in the Middle East. I would not be at all surprised but what we will not be forced to call on Israel to bail us out of Lebanon.

I think that our government has made some serious miscalculations and some serious blunders in the decisions concerning the Middle East. It's like my friends in Israel say, those men sitting over in Washington don't know what's going on over here nor do they understand the mentality of the people that we're dealing with.

The Syrian government recently released films of the young girls and boys in their training. These films, some of them, the ones concerning the girls, were shown in Israel on TV, but CBS and NBC and ABC felt that they weren't really newsworthy.

Well, they really show the kind of people we're dealing with and because this kind of news is withheld, we don't understand the mess we're in when we try to interfere with these people because they don't think as we think.

These particular films, made by the Syrian government, showing the training of the young girls for battle, for their army, and the Russians are now expanding their advisors to 8 ,000 in Syria. But these pictures show these girls taking snakes and handling the snakes and so forth.

They're in training, in their service, and then they begin to bite the snakes until their mouths are covered with blood and then they begin to eat the snakes. They roast them then and eat them after biting them to death.

Bloody mess. And it was shown on Israeli TV. It's a film out of Syria. The fellows, of course, they felt that the Israelis couldn't stomach this film and so they did it short. Choking to death the little dogs and then ripping them apart.

Part of their training in just being cold, callous, vicious. And that's the kind of people we're dealing with. And we're not prepared to deal with people like that because we can't understand how they think.

And we send our Marines in there and we restrict them and make them sitting ducks. And this is not right. And the Israelis know it isn't right. But we've tied the Israelis' hands too. And they said, Hey, you're going to tie our hands.

We're not going to stay around. These people are crazy. We're getting out of here. And they moved back behind the Olive River where they can set up defensible positions. And they said, Hey, you can't treat the people that way.

You can't stay there like that. They're just going to do murderous acts against you. Oh, we've got it all managed, you know. But we don't understand the mentality of the people we're dealing with. And it's a very tragic thing.

Russia, Israel, and the Prophetic Restoration of Israel

But Russia is going to be moving into the Middle East. And when Russia moves into the Middle East, God Himself is going to intervene and utterly destroy that Russian invading army. And when that day takes place, the blindness that Israel has experienced will be over.

And they will recognize their God. In Ezekiel chapter 39, God declares,. And in the day when I am sanctified before the nations of the world, that is the day when He destroys the Russian army, then will I pour out My Spirit again upon the nation of Israel.

Right now, God's Spirit has been poured out upon we Gentiles until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. But as soon as that takes place, then God is going to deal with the nation of Israel. Blindness has happened in Israel part until the fullness of Gentiles comes in.

But then all of Israel shall be saved. Because God is going to move by His Spirit again in a very powerful way among these people. And they're going to recognize. For there shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

For this is My covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. It's to your blessing and benefit because the Gospel has come unto us in the Spirit of God, bringing the truth of God.