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17 results for “Romans 9–11”
Clear searchCircumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
Does Romans 2:28-29 Make Christians "Spiritual Jews"? Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew Paul's description of the inward Jew is often treated as a decisive redefinit…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…an? Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation Romans 9:6 is often used as a definition of spiritual Israel: "For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel." —Romans 9:6 The usual argument is straightforward. Physical descent from Jac…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…promises made unto the fathers: And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy." —Romans 15:8-9 Christ came "for the truth of God" to confirm what God had promised to the fathers. Paul does not say that Christ's coming changed those promises into something different from…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?" —Numbers 23:19 His faithfulness is not merely a habit which He happens to maintain. It flows from who He is. He is the God "that cannot lie" (Titus 1:2). Even when human beings are faithless, "he abideth…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…he One in whom all God's promises are yea and amen (Galatians 3:16; Luke 1:32-33; Hebrews 9:15; 2 Corinthians 1:20). The Church also shares blessings once associated with Israel's covenants and hope. Gentile believers who were "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and stranger…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…Grafted into Israel? The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor Romans 11 pictures Gentile believers as branches taken from a wild olive tree and grafted into a cultivated olive tree. They now share its nourishing root alongside branches which belong to…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…h they lived. Their Scriptures, worship, identity, and hope of return endured. On 14 May 1948, Jewish sovereignty was re-established in the ancestral land through the declaration of the State of Israel. That event does not by itself settle every prophetic question. The modern sta…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…following the argument through the covenants, the prophets, the teaching of Jesus, Acts, Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, and the history of Christian interpretation, the cumulative answer is no. God has judged Israel severely. The nation remains largely in unbelief and cannot inheri…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…the flesh" as Israelites to whom belong "the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants" (Romans 9:3-5). He can say there is no difference in the sinner's need and the gospel's availability (Romans 10:12), then distinguish Israel from the Gentiles throughout Romans 11. Equality a…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…on was commanded as the covenant sign, and disobedience had real consequences (Genesis 17:9-14). Yet human failure does not turn the covenant into a promise God may permanently discard. Its historical line, stated land, and blessing to the nations belong to the oath God swore. Th…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…atural branches and anticipated those branches being grafted into "their own olive tree" (Romans 11:17-24). Israel's blindness was partial and temporary; the nation's gifts and calling remained irrevocable. Later supersessionism therefore cannot be projected backwards as though i…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…d forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin." —Romans 11:1 His first answer is the believing remnant: God had not rejected every Israelite. His argument then goes further. Israel's fall is not final, their blindness is "in part", and it…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…irst of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord." —Mark 12:29 He did not treat the Hebrew Scriptures as the relics of a discarded religion. He declared that they testified of Him, answered temptation from Deuteronomy, interpreted His mission through…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…rist is then called Abraham's seed and an heir according to the promise (Galatians 3:16, 29). If Christ is the true Seed and the Church is united to Him, does the Church inherit every promise previously associated with Israel? Second, Paul closes the letter by pronouncing peace a…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?" —Numbers 23:19 God's constancy is not an abstract attribute. It is the reason His people can trust what He says. If the wording of a divine promise does not reliably disclose what God has committed Himse…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…o seize his inheritance. They cast him out of the vineyard and killed him (Matthew 21:38-39). Jesus then asked what the lord of the vineyard would do. His hearers supplied the sentence: "He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandm…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…ompletion of Daniel's seventieth week. Seventy sevens for Daniel's people and city Daniel 9 begins with Jeremiah's prophecy of Jerusalem's seventy years of desolation. Daniel confesses Israel's covenant rebellion and pleads for "thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain" (Daniel 9:16…
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