ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
"they also ... shall be graffed in: for God is able to gratf them in again." During the great tribulation period, after the translation of the church, they will cry unto God to send their Messiah. The Antichrist will persecute them even unto death. But they will exercise faith God..-ward, and the Lord Jesus will come down and reveal Himself to them. Just as He revealed Himself to Paul on the Damascus road, so He will make Himself known to His suffering people. Then there will be "a fountain opened" for Israel, "and so all Israel shall be saved." "Hath God cast away his people? God forbid." They are His olive tree, ever green, because of His unchanging covenant made to their father, Abraham, many centuries ago. 3. Goo's UNCHANGEABLE CovENANT WITH ISRAEL, verses 25..-29. Still reminding the Gentiles of the danger of boasting and being "wise" in their "own conceits," Paul says yet again that "blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in"-until the full number of Gentiles have been added to the Body of Christ. Then Paul continues: "All Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and 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: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance" (verses 26..-29 ). "Hath God cast away his people?" Here is your answer. my friend. God ma~e a covenant with Abraham, all of grace. And God never breaks His word! The Lord Himself "shall descend from heaven," and "shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." In the days of bitter persecution from the Antichrist, He will he· "the Deliverer out of Sion." And He will "take away their sins," because Israel will know Him by the·wounds in His hands and feet and side. She will accept [Page 210
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