Volume 25, Issue 4
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‘All Israel’ Will Be Saved (Continued From Page 14)
“But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, ‘Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.’ Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you
Church is nonsensical and violates the text. “All Israel” means every Jew living at the time of Christ’s return will look upon Him and mourn, for they will know in that instance Jesus is Messiah. Thus, all will be saved. John Gill, the Puritan theologian, credited with the development of Hyper-Calvinism, got it right. He wrote of this passage: “And so all Israel shall be saved... Meaning not the
Jesus to be the true Messiah, and shall look to him, believe on him, and be saved by him from wrath to come.” Modern Reformed and Covenant theology adherents have drifted so far away from the biblical narrative concerning Israel’s restora- tion, that they are beginning to stand as en- emies of Israel politically, and of other Christians who uphold the truth that Yah-
stand by your faith. Do not be con- ceited, but fear; for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either. Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?
weh is not finished with His chosen people. It’s one thing to understand eschatology in a particular manner but another thing entirely to take a physical and political stand against Israel, denouncing her and advo- cating for her demise. The invec- tives are becoming increasingly hostile even against other Chris- tians who hold to a different view of Israel.
I recommend a book for your fur- ther investigation into this subject. It is Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum’s, “Israelology: The Missing Link in Systematic Theology.” Dr. Frucht- enbaum does thorough research into the roots of Covenant Theology of the Postmillennial, Amillennial, and Pre- millennial persuasions. Without question, the most virulent of the three is Covenant Postmillennialism. Many of its adherents have become rabidly anti-Is- rael and anti-Semitic. They excuse this be- havior as warranted against false teaching. Their fight is against Yahweh and His de- clared plans for Israel. Pray for them to come to the truth. Dr. Mike Spaulding Pastor, Calvary Chapel of Lima www.cclohio.org www.DrMikeSpaudling.com
“For I do not want you, brethren, to be unin- formed of this mystery — so that you will not be wise in your own estimation — that a par- tial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, ‘The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will re- move ungodliness from Jacob.’ This is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.” “All” Israel is not spiritual Israel, consisting of Jews and Gentiles who have believed in Jesus for eternal life. All Israel doesn’t mean the Church. Prophecies concerning Israel are not spiritually realized in the Church. Is- rael and the Church are two different enti- ties. Deliberately conflating Israel and the
mystical spiritual Israel of God, consisting both of Jews and Gentiles, who shall appear to be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation, when all God’s elect among the lat- ter are gathered in, which is the sense many give into; but the people of the Jews, the gen- erality of them, the body of that nation, called ‘the fulness’ of them, Romans 11:12, and relates to the latter day, when a nation of them shall be born again at once; when, their number being as the sand of the sea, they shall come up out of the lands where they are dispersed, and appoint them one head, Christ, and great shall be the day of Jezreel; when they as a body, even the far greater part of them that shall be in being, shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their King; shall acknowledge
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