And All Israel Shall Be Saved / Y Todo Israel Será Salvo
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Introduction
Introduction
There are certain things, that in times past, were a complete mystery to man:
The formation of a baby in a womb - we have only been able to see what happens through the invention of ultrasound.
The spread of disease through through bacteria and viruses - we have been able to observe these organisms through high powered microscopes.
One of the those great is mysteries is: What is God’s plan for humanity?
The Bible in general terms shows us certain aspects of God’s plan:
Adam and Eve fell into sin bringing death upon all their descendents.
God offered salvation through the offspring of the woman which was eventually was fulfilled in the coming of the Lord Jesus.
Jesus came to live a perfect life, God became man, and died upon a cross as a sacrifice for our sins.
Jesus was resurrected by the power of the Holy Spirit demonstrating that God has accepted his sacrifice.
Jesus ascended to heaven and will one day return to judge the living and the dead.
However, there is a certain aspect about God’s plan where we are invited to peer into the mind of the Almighty.
Today we walk on sacred ground as we are given insight into the mind of God itself as it relates to the people of Israel.
Today the curtains are pulled back so that we may see the purposes of God for the jews from their election to the end of time.
Today, we will consider:
God’s election of Israel
Israel’s rebellion against God
God’s future salvation of the jews
The blessing of God upon the gentiles
I. God’s election of Israel
I. God’s election of Israel
Notice how Paul starts chapter 11:
I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Digo, pues: ¿Ha desechado Dios a su pueblo? En ninguna manera. Porque también yo soy israelita, de la descendencia de Abraham, de la tribu de Benjamín.
Paul speaks of God’s people.
Paul specifies that God has a people. If he has a people, this means God in time past had chosen a people for himself.
God’s chosen people had received great blessings from God. Paul specifies the blessings that he had poured out upon his chosen people.
For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.
Rom 9.
Porque deseara yo mismo ser anatema, separado de Cristo, por amor a mis hermanos, los que son mis parientes según la carne;que son israelitas, de los cuales son la adopción, la gloria, el pacto, la promulgación de la ley, el culto y las promesas;de quienes son los patriarcas, y de los cuales, según la carne, vino Cristo, el cual es Dios sobre todas las cosas, bendito por los siglos. Amén.
By looking at at each of these blessings we are supposed to be able to identify who are God’s people.
Who was given the covenant?
Who was given the law?
Who was given the system of temple worship?
From whom did the patriarchs com?
Paul is speaking of the children of Israel.
The people of Israel, the daughters and sons of Abraham, are God’s chosen people.
We can go to the book of Genesis where God exercised his divine prerogative to chose a people for himself.
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
“I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
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Pero Jehová había dicho a Abram: Vete de tu tierra y de tu parentela, y de la casa de tu padre, a la tierra que te mostraré.Y haré de ti una nación grande, y te bendeciré, y engrandeceré tu nombre, y serás bendición.
God chose, amongst all the peoples upon the earths, Abraham’s descendants as his own people.
There were many other peoples upon the earth.
There were ammonites, jebusites, egyptians, etc., but God chose Abraham’s children as his own people.
God chose them, not based on anything good in them, but solely based on his sovereign election.
II. Israel’s rebellion against God
II. Israel’s rebellion against God
Although God chose the people as Israel, as his own people, they have not believed.
Paul expresses this anguish in the letter to the Romans:
I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.
que tengo gran tristeza y continuo dolor en mi corazón.Porque deseara yo mismo ser anatema, separado de Cristo, por amor a mis hermanos, los que son mis parientes según la carne;que son israelitas, de los cuales son la adopción, la gloria, el pacto, la promulgación de la ley, el culto y las promesas;
Rom 9.
God sent his Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, to his people. John recognizes the fulfillment of God’s promise:
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
A lo suyo vino, y los suyos no le recibieron.
John 1.1
It is amazing to see how God sent his son, the son of David, the Messiah who would die behalf of the sins of his people - and yet, they crucified him.
When Pilate was to release a prisoner, as was the tradition during the Jewish Passover, they asked that Barrabas be released and Jesus be crucified.
His people, God’s chosen people, the people that God had chosen from before the foundation of the earth, asked for his death.
…and to this day, as we consider christian believers we can see that the majority of believers are gentiles and not jews.
The majority of jewish people, the descendants of Abraham, continue to deny the Messiah that came from within their own people.
In fact, many jews believe that by becoming a christian, then they become traitors to their own people.
For many jewish people, part of being jewish is denying that Jesus is the Messiah.
III. God’s future salvation of the jews
III. God’s future salvation of the jews
Nevertheless, Paul takes us to consider God’s final plan for his chosen people.
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written:
“The deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
Romans 1
Porque no quiero, hermanos, que ignoréis este misterio, para que no seáis arrogantes en cuanto a vosotros mismos: que ha acontecido a Israel endurecimiento en parte, hasta que haya entrado la plenitud de los gentiles;y luego todo Israel será salvo, como está escrito:
Vendrá de Sion el Libertador,
Que apartará de Jacob la impiedad.
There will come a day, before the end of time, when many jews will com to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
There will com ea day, when jews from all over the world, will come to confess faith in the gospel of the Jesus Christ.
Have you ever wondered why God’s people have been persecuted throughout the ages?
During the days of Moses, the evil Egyptian Pharaoh enslaved the people of God.
During the days of Esther, the evil Hamman wanted to kill the jews.
In the year 70 AD, the emperor marched upon Jerusalem and completely destroyed the city of God. The people of God fled for their lives.
During the middle ages, the Catholic Church, during the inquisition forced the conversion of many jews or face certain death.
During WWII, the evil dictator Adolph Hitler, sent 6 millions jews to their death.
…however, all around the world, we have many descendants of Abraham. The jewish people have not been exterminated.
Why are there still jewish people all around the world? God must have a plan for and through the people that he chose more than 6,000 years ago in the calling of Abraham.
IV. God’s plan for his people
IV. God’s plan for his people
God allowed the turning away of his people.
as it is written:
“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that could not see
and ears that could not hear,
to this very day.”
Romans 11.8
como está escrito: Dios les dio espíritu de estupor, ojos con que no vean y oídos con que no oigan, hasta el día de hoy.
God allowed his own people to turn away from the truth.
God allowed that they would continue in a system of false religion.
God allowed his own people to cry out for the crucifixion of his son.
Although God allowed that they might turn away, he has not abandoned his people:
Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.
Digo, pues: ¿Han tropezado los de Israel para que cayesen? En ninguna manera; pero por su transgresión vino la salvación a los gentiles, para provocarles a celos.
Although they have fallen in unbelief, although they have denied the savior, although they have rebelled against God’s plan of salvation - God has not turned his face away from his people.
Rather, God’s plan was that through their unbelief, the rest of the world might hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Although Israel has not believed, salvation has come to all the peoples of the earth.
For what purpose?
The bible says that salvation has come to us gentiles, to provoke envy in God’s chosen people, that they may desire the salvation that has come to all who believe.
So Paul’s argument is that because the children of Israel have not believed, essentially this unbelief become the way by which the offer of salvation to the rest of the world.
Romans 11.
But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!
Y si su transgresión es la riqueza del mundo, y su defección la riqueza de los gentiles, ¿cuánto más su plena restauración?
Paul says that the sin of unbelief of the children of Israel, has ushered the richness of salvation to all the people of the earth.
Paul says that if their unbelief provoked so great a blessing, just imagine how much more blessing will there be, when the children of Israel come to faith in Jesus Christ!
So God’s plan throughout the ages was that the unbelief of the people of God would bring salvation to all the ends of the earth.
The people of God would see how many gentiles were coming to faith and be provoked to jealousy/envy so that they may one day believe.
God would not only save jews but he would also save gentiles from all the corners of the earth - for God so loved the world and not only the children of Israel.
In Paul uses the image of the olive tree - a wild and cultivated olive tree.
The natural/cultivated olive tree represents God’s chosen people.
The wild olive tree represents the gentile nations.
Jewish, through their unbelief, were cut off from the natural olive tree.
Through their rejection of Jesus Christ they have turned away from the promises of God and salvation.
There is no salvation apart from belief in the Lord Jesus Christ.
But…God has taken branches of the wild olive tree, and grafted them in to the natural/cultivated tree.
Romans 17.1
If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,
Pues si algunas de las ramas fueron desgajadas, y tú, siendo olivo silvestre, has sido injertado en lugar de ellas, y has sido hecho participante de la raíz y de la rica savia del olivo,
Although we do not belong on the natural/cultivated olive tree, we now share in the blessings of the people of God.
We who were not God’s people, are now considered heirs of the promises of God.
Just imagine the great salvation that we now enjoy through faith in Jesus Christ.
For this reason, Paul exhorts his gentile readers to not consider themselves as greater than those branches that were cut off.
Rom 11.18
do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
no te jactes contra las ramas; y si te jactas, sabe que no sustentas tú a la raíz, sino la raíz a ti. Pues las ramas, dirás, fueron desgajadas para que yo fuese injertado. Bien; por su incredulidad fueron desgajadas, pero tú por la fe estás en pie. No te ensoberbezcas, sino teme. Porque si Dios no perdonó a las ramas naturales, a ti tampoco te perdonará.
In other words, we are not part of the natural/cultivated olive tree for anything good we have done.
Rather, God through his mercy has granted us the gift of faith…and if we do not believe, then we can take no part in God’s rich blessings.
The day will come, when the branches who were cut off, the jewish people, will com to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
One day, those branches that were cut off, will be made part of the natural/cultivated olive tree.
God will bring his people back to himself.
God will save those whom he chose when he called Abraham.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Paul sees God’s plan throughout the ages and cannot do anything but praise his most holy name.
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
“Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”
“Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay them?”
For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.
¡Oh profundidad de las riquezas de la sabiduría y de la ciencia de Dios! ¡Cuán insondables son sus juicios, e inescrutables sus caminos! Porque ¿quién entendió la mente del Señor? ¿O quién fue su consejero? ¿O quién le dio a él primero, para que le fuese recompensado? Porque de él, y por él, y para él, son todas las cosas. A él sea la gloria por los siglos. Amén.
Paul recognizes God’s faithfulness. He chose the children of Israel from before the foundations of the earth, and will be faithful despite their unbelief.
God has preserved his people, so that his promises may be fulfilled.
Surely, we can trust the Lord who is sovereign over history and has preserved his people, surely he will preserve all those who believe in him.
May we continue to pray for the salvation of the children of Israel that they may believe and enjoy the riches that we have in Christ Jesus - the king of Israel.