“Has God cast away His people (Israel)?” God Himself answers the question… “God has not cast away His people...” (Romans 11:1,2).
Both the Old and New Testament are abundant with Scriptures that Israel shall be saved… “Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end” (Isaiah 45:17). And again…
“Brethren, I don’t want you to be without knowledge of this mystery, lest you become wise in your own conceits, that partial blindness has happened to Israel until the fulness of the nations have come in (to salvation). And so, ALL ISRAEL shall be saved: as it is written, ‘There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: for this is My covenant to them, when I shall take away their sins’” (Romans 11:25-27 quoting Isaiah 59:20).
God continues… “As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as concerning the election (those chosen by God for His purposes), they are beloved for the forefathers’ sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance (change of mind). For as YOU in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief, even so have these also now not believed, that through YOUR mercy they also may obtain mercy. For God has concluded everyone in unbelief, that He might have mercy upon all…" (Romans 11)
Israel, the nation God made to bring Christ into the world, to give us the Scriptures, to share the Good News of salvation with the world, is now to experience OUR prayers, and OUR love in Christ, that they as a nation might also believe.
Praise God His Word already reveals how these evil days will end. Maranatha.
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