The key to God’s promised dealings with Israel is His sincerity. The solemn promises made to Abraham and his seed concerning the Hebrew racial family and to David and his seed concerning the Hebrew royal family have not been cancelled—only postponed. They are centered in Christ, and until His return they are in abeyance. Their ultimate fulfillment awaits His coming again when the nation which rejected Him will hail Him at last as Messiah and Kinsman-Redeemer. During the present age, as we have seen, God is offering salvation to Jew and Gentile alike on an individual basis. Those who accept Jesus as Saviour become members of the church and heirs of the privileges and prerogatives set forth in the New Testament. Mistakes in interpreting Romans 11 can be avoided by observing that its theme is not the church. It is the Jewish nation, and also the Gentile nations which occupy, for this dispensation, the place of religious privilege temporarily forfeited by the unbelieving Jew.
