COVENANT OF ISRAEL - NYOBS 11.10

RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 11 - CALVINISM

ISRAEL’S COVENANT RABBIT TRAIL

• God made a covenant with Israel that they would be His special people and that He would save them – The covenant contained a lot of “Ifs” – Scripture states that “ALL Israel” will be saved. – How can this be since most of the Jews rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
• It becomes crucial in our life to understand that God does not break His promises – If God goes back on His covenant with Israel, then perhaps He would go back on the promise of salvation for us. – He will not.
• “All Israel” is made up of those who accept Jesus Christ, both the Jews as well as the believing Gentiles whose branches were grafted into the root of the Jewish vine.  The unbelieving Jewish branches that were broken off can be grafted back in if they accept Jesus as the Messiah.
• If you have accepted Jesus Christ, you now have Jewish roots.

Rom 11:26 – All of Israel will be saved.

26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

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Rom 9:6 All of Israel is not Israel

6 It is not as though God's word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. NIV

John 10:16 – Believing Jews and Gentiles are All Israel

16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. NIV

Rom 11:17-23 – The Gentiles were grafted into the vine

17 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,

23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

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