Israel & the World — Lance Lambert

If you come to the Lord and you have great problems and you major on the problems all the time, well you don't seem to get very far except downhearted, but when you begin to praise the Lord, not only for what He is, but what He's going to be and for what His word declares He's going to be, then you begin to come out on top and the victory begins to be given.

And we have found that wonderfully true. Let's look at that. Psalm 48, verse 9. Now this is this morning, verse 9. We have thought on thy steadfast love, O God, in the midst of thy temple. As thy name, O God, so thy praise reaches to the ends of the earth.

Thy right hand is filled with victory. Zion be glad. Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of thy judgments. Walk about Zion. Go round about her. Number her towers. Consider well her ramparts. Go through her citadels that you may tell the next generation that this is God, our God, forever and ever.

He will be our guide. Isn't that marvelous? It reminds us that sometimes in the Old Testament, as often as you read this, this psalm reminds you that there were times when Israel were really up against it and they always are because the devil is always there.

And whenever they were up against it, one of the things they used to do was to begin to praise the Lord. That is when they thought on it. When they, like this morning, were reminded of the efficacy of prayer and intercession with their God.

When their eyes were turned to God, they immediately began to praise Him. And we read in one place anyway that the Lord set ambushes all around their enemies. Now I believe, friends, that as we love Israel, that we should be those very people, as Judah were, so should we be.

We should beset them with praise for what God is going to accomplish in Israel in the earth. Because the Lord has said He is going to make them the head and not the tail. They're not going to be as He was despised and rejected of all men, but all men are going to honor the Jew and their King when He reigns in the day of His glory.

This is the day we all long for. Much must happen before that day, but we're going to have a part in that because we're going to pray that God will really do something today, that His name will be glorified in Israel.

Jewish People and the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose

Now I've got a few Jews around about our way and quite a few of them know me and we're great friends. And I do believe that the Lord is saving many Jews. Some of them are very secret at the moment, some of them are frightened to really come out in the open, but weren't we the same?

We were. We were all scared at one time, but there came a day when we really took our stand for God and this is what we are just waiting for. But let's be careful to give them in love all that we know about Jesus.

I so appreciated the message this morning and I believe it's so needful. Some years ago when I was, of course, a young person, I was brought up in church, mum and dad still go to the same church and so on, my family.

But we heard very little about Israel. All the prophecies of the Old Testament that referred to Israel, we took them all for us. And we almost stripped Israel of all that they were entitled to. Well since I began to read this glorious book and the Lord has opened my eyes somewhat, I begin to see that we have taken half their blessings, if not more.

And we have become sons of Abraham through faith and we have entered into all those blessings which we trust and believe that many of those dear brothers and sisters in Christ in the Jewish nation at the moment will enter into.

We are privileged, those of us who are Gentiles, aren't we? And so we do love those amongst us who belong to the Lord's real natural family, if we can call it that, the Jewish race. Now let's pray, shall we, together, so that when last comes to deliver the word, the Lord will speak in a mighty way, the anointing may be upon the word and his servant an unfettered and uncluttered instrument in his hand.

Father, we come before you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We thank you that he didn't disdain to become a man. He didn't think it just that he would come to be an angel, nor yet that he would come to be some king and prince, unattainable, unapproachable, far above us in our ordinary life.

But he started as a baby in a manger which we, none of us, were ever born in. He lived a life so humble and then at the very end we all believe that he died there on Calvary, in shame, humiliation, all that spitting and discouraging.

The reputation that our Lord had, Lord, we just bless you today that you've let us in on this wonderful love, that we also may know something of that fellowship in your sufferings. And Lord, as we have approached you today on behalf of the Jew, we know that they today, many of them unknowingly, no doubt, and many of them because of their stand for you, are today having fellowship in your sufferings, one way and another.

And we pray that this very day your word will become so precious to us, you will unlock our appreciation of the things that are going on, that you will give us understanding of how we should pray that the life that we lead from now on will be spirit-directed, that your throne will constantly be besieged with the words that will bring life and liberty to the souls in bondage who don't know you.

And we pray, Lord, for all of us gathered, the same thing, that you will bind us as one, though apart in the flesh, as one at your throne, and let this be an increasing thing, that the nation may hear of Jesus, the Messiah, the King of Israel, the Prince over all the earth.

How we thank you, Lord, that you've let us know your glory in advance, so that we can praise you even now that you are already thrown there in the glory. We remember in that psalm, number two, where there were men who thought to appoint a king, but you said, you're too late, the throne is already filled, Jesus sits a king forever.

And how we praise you, Lord, this afternoon for that. We ask you to give us liberty, to give us love in our hearts that is real, fervent, and effective in bringing us into your work. Now bless your servant, Lord, as he later will minister, and give us all just that thing that we need.

We don't all know what we need. Some of us have come, we have an idea we need, we don't know what. But your Spirit knows, and we pray that because you know all things, and because you are wisdom itself, that you will just come to our own heart, and deal us out that very blessing that we need.

And we ask it in the precious name of the Lord Jesus, our Saviour and Lord.

The Difficulty of Interpreting Israel in Scripture

I have the real privilege for me to be able to speak to you this afternoon. I was asked if I would speak on the subject now of Israel and the world. I don't think there is any subject in one way that is more difficult to speak on than Israel.

Not because of the word, but because of the multitude of conceptions and interpretations and ideas that people have. We need really a special help in this matter. Will you please approach this whole time this afternoon with an open mind.

I want to read a few scriptures, first of all, well-known scriptures. Romans chapter 11, Romans chapter 11, from verse 11 to 18. Romans 11, from verse 11 to 18, and then from verse 25 to 34. I say then, did they, that is the Jewish people, stumble that they might fall?

God forbid. But by their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness.

But I speak to you that our Gentiles, in as much then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry. If by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them.

For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead? And if the first fruit is holy, so is the lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, was grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree, glory not over the branches, but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root, thee.

Verse 25,. For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceit, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.

And so all Israel shall be saved, even as it is written, They shall come out of Zion the deliverer, he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob, and this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but as touching the election, they are beloved for the Father's sake. For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance. For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you, they also may now obtain mercy.

For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all, all the debt of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways, past the tracing.

And then if you will turn to Zechariah, the prophecy of Zechariah, Zechariah chapter 12, just a few verses here from verse 1, Zechariah chapter 12, verse 1 to 3, and then verse 6. The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel.

Thus saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling unto all the peoples round about, and upon Judah also shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem.

And it shall come to pass in that day that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All that burden themselves with it shall be sore wounded, and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.

And then in verse 6, in that day will I make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaths, and they shall devour all the peoples round about on the right hand and on the left.

And they of Jerusalem shall yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem. Verse 10, and I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication, and they shall look unto me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him as one mourner for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the mourning of Hadad-Rimon in the valley of Megiddon. And the land shall mourn every family apart, the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart, the family of the house of Natan apart, and their wives apart, the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart, the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart, and the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

And then one last scripture in Zechariah chapter 8, Zechariah chapter 8, verse 18, chapter 8, verse 18,. And the word of the Lord of hosts came unto me, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth month, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness and cheerful feasts, therefore love, truth, and peace.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, It shall yet come to pass that there shall come peoples and the inhabitants of many cities, and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts, I will go also.

Yea, many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, In those days it shall come to pass that ten men shall take hold out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

God’s Eternal Purpose for Israel and the Nations

The world, what a subject. I can only take one or two things this afternoon. First of all, I would like to spend just a little time upon what God's God and is. That's just one thing I'd like to say. You see, there's a tremendous amount of interest in the prophetic details, the geographical details, the sort of why and wherefore of everything, but there is sometimes so little understanding of what the real purpose of God from eternity to eternity was and is.

And I believe that when we get that, everything starts to fall in place. You've no doubt, there are people who say that there is no future for the Jew, that the Jew is finished, that all these prophecies, as my brother said a little earlier, are really for the church, for the Christian.

The Jew is finished, he's under the judgment and wrath of God, there is no future for him. And then you've got the other people, who quite honestly, the more you listen to them, the more you wonder why you're a Christian.

Wouldn't it be better to be a Jew? And really it doesn't seem to matter too much that the Lord came into the world as well. It's all in the future, everything's relegated to the future, you don't evangelize, you don't seek to bring him to the Lord, because it's all going to happen in a moment of time, and it's all sort of geographically based, and you've got this dichotomy, do you understand, this kind of civil war amongst those who either are for or against this matter.

And the most confusing thing of all, I'm quite sure, to any younger believer, and certainly to some older believers who are open-hearted and open-minded, is the way both sides use Scripture. Because the more you listen to one, the more heartily you become convinced, and then you listen to the other, and you become even more convinced by the other, and then you end up wondering, what do you believe?

On the one hand, there seems to be so much Scripture for the first view, and then there seems to be so much Scripture for the second view. Now, it seems to me that once we see the heart of this matter, a whole lot of our problems disappear.

So please, you may wish to tear me apart later, but I will at least seek to explain a little of what the Apostle Paul called the mystery, which has been hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to us by the Spirit of God.

So I'd like to spend a little time first on the heart of the matter. Then I would like to say something, if we have time, about the present situation, and then I would like to say just something about the future.

Oh, very briefly. We'll see how we go. Now, here is the first. What really is the purpose of God for the Jewish people? What was his original purpose for Israel? Now, I want to take one Scripture, which goes, I think, to the heart of the matter, at least to our misunderstanding.

And here it is in Romans 11 and verse 11. By their fall, salvation is unto the Gentiles. By their fall, salvation to the Gentiles. You can't get over that. That's the Word of God. By their fall, salvation to the Gentiles.

What was God's original plan and purpose? Why did God choose Abraham? Why did he, as it were, take hold of Abraham out of all the multitudes of men in the earth? Because he had a people in mind. A chosen people.

A vessel. A vehicle. An instrument, if you like. And what was the idea? That that people should become an interned, closely knit people? No. But that they should become the vessel to take the salvation of God to the ends of the earth.

That they should be the means for the light of God to shine into the darkest parts of the earth. Now you will find this again and again with the prophets. This is the thing they bring again and again and again.

We shouldn't be just turned in. Our vocation is to carry the light which God has given us and the salvation of God to the ends of the earth. To take the knowledge of God to the darkest parts of the earth.

I wish we could stop and explore many of these things then. I think of Jonah. Jonah is a good example of it. Jonah is a good example of the kind of hyper... Now I'm a Calvinist, so you'll answer what I'm going to say.

Jonah and the Prison of Theological Particularism

Hyper-Calvinist type of view which is interned. Particularism. The kind of view that said, everything outside of the covenant people, God's answers. God is not interested in them at all. So when the voice of God came to him one time in his quiet time, Jonah, Jonah, I want you to go to Nineveh.

He said, well the voice of the Lord came to him not once but again and again until finally Jonah was caught. You see he was in his own theological straitjacket. He couldn't get out of it even if he wanted to.

He couldn't get out of it. And so he did the only thing he could do spontaneously. He ran for all he was worth down to Joppa, booked a cruise on a boat and went as far as possible as he thought in the wrong direction.

He thought he would put as much distance between him and Nineveh as it was possible. But you know the story. I don't have to tell you. God prepared a great fish. God prepared a great storm. You will remember that even the captain of the boat and the sailors in the boat wanted to save Jonah.

But in the end he was tipped out. And in the end when in the fish he remembered Solomon's great prayer of dedication. That if I turn towards the place where thou calls thy name to dwell and seek thee thou will hear me.

Well now how he quite knew in the fish which direction to turn. He did it by faith. I suppose he thought well this Lord I'm taking this position by faith. We'll say this is toward Jerusalem. And he prayed.

And the Lord heard him. And caused the fish to spew him out on dry land. Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah and said, Jonah remember you said that if I did you would go to Nineveh. Off to Nineveh.

And off he went to Nineveh. And he delivered that message to Nineveh with all the energy and resource that was his. He I think had quite an interest in the message since it was one of judgment. He gave it with every inch of life and energy that was within him.

But then he had the greater shock of his life. Because all the Ninevites from the king right down to the last person repented. They even dressed as the domestic animals up in sackcloth. They said the whole place.

The king said let there be a fast. Let everyone seek this God. We will seek for help. We will seek for an answer to this. And God said Jonah have you seen what has happened. I cannot do this thing. And you remember the story.

Jonah got out. Now it seems to me that many of us tend to think of Jonah as a man who was a very little man. He wasn't a little man. We see in Jonah. He was the prisoner of his own theological conceptions.

He had certain definite conceptions. Certain definite ideas. And he became a prisoner of them. What was the greatest shock to him was when he sullied. And the Lord allowed that good to come up and then die within a day.

And then he was sulking and God came to him and said Jonah you have had more compassion on that good that grew up in a day and died within a day than you've had upon this city of Nineveh. How can I destroy this great city with all these toddlers that cannot tell their left hand from their right.

And all the domestic animals. What a revelation of God. That he could be concerned for animals let alone the people. It took a big man to leave the book of Jonah where it's left. Remember that when you're tempted to judge Jonah.

He could if I'd been writing my biography of these details I would have added another little paragraph and said and Jonah turned again to the Lord and showed great compassion towards the people of Nineveh.

And then I would have sort of undercut all this sort of preachers boom for taking hold of Jonah and leaving him in a rather dark light. But Jonah evidently was so dealt with that he could leave the story where he left it so that ever afterwards people could speak about the hardness of that man.

He left it with a message. Now why did God choose the people? Don't you think Jonah saw this? Jonah suddenly saw the vocation of the people of God. Their vocation was to save Nineveh not damn Nineveh.

Their vocation was to take the knowledge of God to Nineveh not withhold it from Nineveh. Of course if you'd spoken with Jonah he would have said well well well of course if they all want to come up to Jerusalem and get converted that's all right.

If they want to come up we will accept them after we've put them through the course. But the biggest shock he ever had was that God was known in the streets of Nineveh not by the people but God knew the streets of Nineveh.

He knew the houses of Nineveh. He knew the toddlers that were in Nineveh. He knew even the domestic animals that were in Nineveh. He knew the city of Nineveh like he knew Jerusalem. That was a shock to Jonah.

Why was the book of Jonah written? It was written that we might understand that God had a purpose for his people it just was not fulfilled by them. And that's why Jonah has become the symbol of the death and burial and resurrection of the Messiah.

Because only through the Lord Jesus could this original purpose of God for his people be fulfilled to carry the salvation of God to the ends of the earth. Why did God choose Abraham? He was forming a people.

Why did he form that people? That they might become the dwelling place of God and the means by which the knowledge of God, the salvation of God might go to the ends of the earth. Now we find this I think again and again once we understand that we go back again, talk from another point of view.

The Fig Tree, Israel’s Judgment, and Jerusalem’s Desolation

Have you ever noticed in Mark chapter 11 verse 13 and 14 seeing a fig tree far off having leaves he came if haply he might find anything thereon and when he came to it he found nothing but leaves for it was not the season of figs and he answered and said unto it no man eat fruit from me henceforward forever and his disciples heard it.

Now I wonder whether you have noted this. First there is this reference to the fig tree then just a little farther on in the same chapter verse 20 and as they passed by in the morning, the next morning they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots and then in that same day verse chapter 13 and verse 28 now from the fig tree learn her parable, learn her lesson when her branches now become tender and put forth its leaves ye know that the summer is nigh even so ye also when ye see these things coming to pass know ye that he is nigh even at the doors.

Verily I say unto you this generation shall not pass away till all these things be accomplished. Now will you please note we have obviously in the disciples minds very clearly a fig tree. They saw the Lord hungry and they saw him go over to a fig tree and they saw him looking for fruit.

Now the Lord is no fool. He knew there was no fruit on the fig tree. He wasn't just a fit of pique a fit of anger, of irritation as some people imagine he knew very well that there was no fruit. He was using that fig tree as a parable.

He looked in a studied way for fruit. He found none he said. Henceforth no man eat from it. The next day early in the morning they passed by that same tree and the disciples remembered and looked and it was withered.

And they make a point it was withered from the roots. It hadn't got some blight upon it. It had gone from the roots from inside, from its very foundation as it were it had withered and died. Now will you mark very carefully what happened after the Lord pronounced that word of judgment upon that fig tree.

He went into the temple it says. And this is what he did. Verse 15. They come to Jerusalem. And he entered into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and them that bought in the temple overthrew the tables and the money chains and the seats of them that sold the dance.

And he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple. And he taught and said unto them is it not written my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations. But ye have made it a den of robbers.

And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and thought how they might destroy him for they feared him for all the multitude of the now the next verse or two next morning it is they saw that fig tree wither.

Now see what happens from verse 27. And the whole of chapter 12 was the final confrontation between the Messiah and his people. Not all the people but the leaders the establishment the chief priests the elders the scribes.

Do you remember how they came first the Pharisees then the Sadducees one after another came with quick questions to try and catch him out. Now do you begin to get what it is. Matthew in a fuller account tells us exactly what the Lord said in Matthew 23.

Verse 37. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem killeth the prophets and stoneth them that are sent unto her. How often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings.

And ye would not behold. Your house is left unto you desolate. It is a terrible thing that those were the last words of our Lord. No they were not. And this is where so many preachers have made their great mistake.

Here they've said. And the Lord pronounced a word of judgment upon the Jewish people turned his back on them went out and never goes will never go back. Listen verse 39. For I say unto you ye shall not see me.

Henceforth till ye shall say blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. They seem to overlook that point. This is the old traditional. Many of you will know the old traditional welcome. It just means welcome.

Welcome in the name of the Lord. That was the traditional religious welcome. Welcome in the name of the Lord. So these people that have rejected him these people that have stood against him these people that have as it were finally signed their death warrant and turned their back on the Messiah.

And he says your house is left unto you desolate. He says just wait I shall go out and I will not return until there comes a cry from within. This people welcome in the name of the Lord. Now the remarkable thing is this.

This is the paradox. First you've got the fig tree cursed judged. And second you have the fig tree withered from the roots. And here you have him. In the same day in the evening of that very day when the Lord went over the brook he'd gone up onto the Mount of Olives and sat there over against the temple.

These are the words after those tremendous words. When will this be Lord. When will these stones be cast down. So there's not one left on another. When will this happen to Jerusalem. And what will be the sign of your return.

And he said a number of things. And then he said. Learn the parable of the fig tree. Learn. Let's put it in modern language. Learn the lesson of the fig tree. It was all in their minds of course. Well now then just go on.

Listen to this. This is what he says Mark 13 and verse 28 when her branches now become tender and put forth its leaves. Oh isn't it hard sometimes unless you have the Spirit of God isn't it hard to understand the Scriptures.

No wonder we've got two opposing on these things. First you have a fig tree cursed and judged and withered from its roots. And now he's talking about the fig tree putting forth its leaves becoming tender putting forth its leaves.

So what is the Lord saying. He's saying this people is judged. This people is going to wither from its roots in one sense. But at the end of the age they will still be here. And they'll be more than here.

They will put forth leaves again. Now the fig tree is the symbol as most of you undoubtedly know of the covenant people of God. I don't think I have to argue about that along with the olive tree the fig tree and the vine these are the three supreme symbols of the people of God the covenant people of God.

But it's a very interesting thing about the fig tree. And I wish again we had time to go into it. But it's a very interesting thing about the fig tree that the fig tree is associated not just with the people the nation but with the land in which the people of land do you remember how one of the prophets said.

And every one of you shall sit under his own fig tree. He wasn't talking about nationhood. He was talking about your actual inheritance in the land. You'll have a plot of ground. You'll have a piece of the promised land for yourself.

You will sit under your own fig tree. So now we have three things that the fig tree symbolizes. First, nationhood. Secondly, the territory in which that nation is found. And thirdly, fruitfulness. We know that the fig tree is a symbol of fruitfulness.

What happened to Israel. It rejected its Messiah. Those terrible words let his blood be upon us and upon our children. And so began the sad terrible story of the Jewish people lost their nationhood. Their constitution as a nation didn't lose their race didn't lose their ethnic bond or even the religious bond.

They lost their nationhood. They were uprooted from the very territory that was given to them by God and dispersed to the ends of the earth because there was no fruit. Now what does it mean when the Lord says that at the end the fig tree will be there.

Learn the parable. Luke, by the way gives us an even more interesting thing. He says consider the fig tree and all the trees. And some people say ah, now you see now this is just revealed that the fig tree is not the Jewish people.

You see, it's just a symbol of summer. When you see the leaves coming out from the trees. You know summer's nice. So don't talk about Jewish people nothing to do with them. I don't think so at all. Why didn't Luke then say consider the trees where they fall off their leaves.

And even better for those of us who know a little bit more about biblical typology why not the almonds. What a wonderful thing that would have been if the Lord had said consider the almond tree the first tree to put forth its leaves the harbinger of spring.

But no, he says the fig tree. And Luke, who emphasized that says the fig tree and all the trees. So it is a question of summer coming. But it's a particular tree that you must look at all right? Now what does this mean.

Does it not mean first this people though judged under a curse and dispersed to the ends of the earth having lost their nationhood having lost their natural territory given to them by God would first come back to the territory then be reconstituted as a nation.

But surely dear child of God it must mean that they're going to be fruitful. Surely if they were judged for fruitlessness surely there's a point of fruitfulness at the end. Sorry to speak so fast. But one can't forget to get a lot in and to give you a lot.

I want to provoke you all as much as I possibly can. I have no doubt I'm doing it to get you really to think and think and think. Now what was God's purpose in this people. Now can I come back again to this matter.

Only the Lord can help me to put it over clearly without sort of putting it in such a way a clumsy way that will not help you. There are only one inept people. The problem is this we tend to think of them all as gentiles.

God doesn't. God starts on the other side. He starts on the other foot. He says this is the people. And Abraham is the father of all who believe. And the glory of the gospel is this that every gentile who believes is incorporated into the commonwealth of Israel.

So it's not that somehow the Jew comes to the Christian. It is really a gentile comes into Christ. You've got it now. Why I'm so glad what I'm going to say. There are a lot of calls here. But you see people get these views about some kind of future which is you've got a dichotomy again you've got the Christian here and the Jew there.

The Olive Tree and Gentile Inclusion in God’s People

Now just wait now let me go further. See if we don't part ways on the next part. You see you see there's a how can I put it. Let me put it this way. If you turn to Romans 11 Romans 11 I could give you so many scriptures.