Romans 11: 25-27

(Romans 11: 25-27)

『For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. 』

 

The Apostle Paul explains, "Israel will be closed, and the Gentiles will be saved." In Luke (21:20):『And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 』 Luke said of the destruction of Israel, "These days are the day of punishment that accomplishes all that is written." Luke said that it was "the time of the Gentiles" that God would shed light on the Gentiles and bring them back to God. Luke 21:24 says:『And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. 』

 

Luke says, "Until the Gentiles are saved, Jerusalem will be occupied by the Gentiles." Jerusalem is still dominated by Muslims. It means that when the Gentiles are full, they will return to Israel.

 

The apostle Paul says in Romans (11:25):『lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 』 The number of Gentiles spoken of by the Apostle Paul in Romans (11:25) is the same as that of the Gentiles Luke refers to in Luke (21:24).『 Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. 』

 

We should be familiar with the concept of salvation. Every human being has a spirit. The spirit dwells in the flesh, but it should originally be in the kingdom of God. The apostle Paul speaks of the Spirit in 2 Corinthians (5: 1):『 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 』

 

When the body dies, "the spirit must come out of the flesh and put on something."『 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 』(2 Corinthians 5: 2-3) Salvation is the death of the flesh and the return of the spirit to the kingdom of God and the wearing of the body of the spirit. This is similar to the parable of "The Return of the Prodigal Son".

 

The father of the prodigal son sees his son return and says, "It is my son who died and is raised." When he left his father, the wicked son died and returned to the reborn son of repentance. In this way, if we reconsider salvation through the prodigal son, the spirit created by God followed Satan, but comes back to God in true repentance. The repentant is the one who has left "the image of evil (old man) in the flesh" (died with Jesus on the cross), and is reborn in the Spirit and clothed with the spirit body.

 

This salvation of the spirit is the object of every human being in this world. In particular, God chose Israel to be a model for all peoples and to be seen and understood by all nations.

 

God chose Abraham to make the promise of the seed. The seed promise to Abraham is the seed promise for all people. In Isaiah (42: 1) there is also a word of promise from the seed to the Gentiles. In Isaiah (42: 1) "Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles."And in Isaiah (49: 6).『 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. 』

 

More important than the salvation of Israel is salvation for the Gentiles. Israel tried to find the way of salvation through the law, but failed, and now the Gentiles are saved in Jesus Christ.

 

Salvation is "the spirit is saved," not the body being saved. The creature with a body must die, but God seals the spirit until the body dies. It is inevitable that the body must die because the old man in the flesh is evil. So, the Bible (Romans 6: 4) says that the old man must die. This evil heart must die on the cross with Jesus. Jesus came into the world and accomplished everything on the cross. "Those who are in Christ" must speak this to "all the people who have left God" as the foolish way of evangelism. In 1 Corinthians 1:21 says:『 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 』

 

Isaiah (61: 1-2) says:『 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 』

 

Jehovah God sent Christ to preach " the acceptable year and the day of vengeance." the acceptable year means to the period in which the gospel can be preached to the Gentiles. the day of vengeance means to the last tribulation that will take place at the end of time (the restoration of Israel).
Says in Luke (4: 18-19).『The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 』

 

Nobody is talking about the acceptable year. When Jesus went to a synagogue in Nazareth, he read Isaiah. "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
The prophet Isaiah said the acceptable year, the day of vengeance, but Luke did not say the day of vengeance.


It is said in Acts (15: 16-17).『 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.』After the ascension of Jesus, God gave the Gentiles about 2,000 years to preach the gospel, and no one knows how much time will pass.

 

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