Now look at Romans 11:26 and the climax...and this must have just filled Pauls heart with tremendous joy. And so all Israel shall be saved. You know he wanted to say that. You know he longed to see that. And please, there is no way to interpret that other than as the nation Israel and be fair with the text...no way. It cannot refer to a Jewish remnant, it is set in contrast to the doctrine of the remnant which has already been given. What he is saying is there has always been a remnant and theres always been a group of Jews redeemed but some day the nation will be redeemed. Any other viewpoint does terrible injustice to the text and it is not uncommon for amillennialists to say all you have in verse 26 is another remnant. It is not another remnant. It is set in contrast to that. And thats why it says all as opposed to verse 25 where blindness in part is happened. The time will come when all the nation, not just some elect Jews from a future remnant, but all as opposed to not all. And the nation itself will be grafted back in. Thats the whole point of his analogy of the olive tree. - John MacArthur
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:20:57 +0000
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