THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 11:21 THE MYSTERY OF THE BLINDNESS OF ISRAEL

Mike Balloun teaches today. 02-06-21.

THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 11:1-21
THE MYSTERY OF THE BLINDNESS OF ISRAEL

VERSES: Isaiah 49:1-6; Matthew 21:43; Isaiah 29:10; Acts 3:22-23; Leviticus 26:28

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Paul has reached the critical point of his Letter. The Mystery of which Paul refers to in verse 25 of this Chapter is that Israel the nation and its people are set aside in judgment as God’s witnesses in the Earth, and the ‘Gentile’ Church would take their place. For Israel, as a people of God, will not be restored during this Age of Mercy and Grace; the timeframe wherein He calls out another people for His Name, out of the ‘Gentiles.’ This had begun shortly after Pentecost with the Gentile Cornelius being saved. (Acts 10) The Jews in general continued their united rejection of Christ their Messiah and claimed they are a people of Moses throughout the 30 plus years associated with the Book of Acts up until 70 AD. This is when God cut them off, by the hand of Titus, and destroyed the Temple, and with it the Jewish means by which they could serve God through observance of the Mosaic Law.

VERSES 1-6 “I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid (using the strongest negative in the Greek, this is expressed as an emphatic ‘No! Not ever!’). For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the Scripture saith of Elijah? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.” Are they to remain forever in that cast off state? NEVER! So says Paul, as he gives example of when God told the prophet Elijah, who thought himself alone in Israel as a man of God, that He had reserved unto Himself 7000 men who had not bowed to other gods. There is now, and has always been a remnant elect, by God’s Grace, which Paul himself could attest to, as one himself in his day. In his Road to Damascus experience, Paul was cast down upon the ground in the Glory of Christ, and was then bidden to arise and he arose. Paul then is a type for the last days remnant Jew! It was election and justification by undeserved grace and not by merit of his or their own when they again will be grafted back in. (Paul’s scales over his eyes being symbolic of their being blinded and his being filled with the Holy Spirit and subsequent ministry as the Apostle to the Gentiles symbolizing the scales of unbelief dropping from the Jews’ eyes at the time of Christ’s Coming and them being used as ministers on Earth as lights unto the Gentiles/nations in the millennial kingdom!)

VERSES 7-10 “What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them: Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.” As Paul has already said, Israel was seeking to establish their own righteousness before God, and for that “…the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes…” [Isaiah 29:10] And to add injury to a long-standing insult, in their pride they refused to receive (and still refuse today) the imputed righteousness of Christ outside the Law, which God, by His prophets, had all along promised to provide outside the Law of Moses. “They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.” [Psalm 69:21] And so in this great display of pride, God judged them unworthy to have the part of the “New Man” heavenly kingdom calling (the heavenly portion of the Abrahamic Covenant) and gave it to another. “Wherefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.” [Matthew 21:43] (What was being taken from them was the heavenly portion of the kingdom inheritance that was promised to Israel through Abraham’s faithfulness, of which he is an inheritor of. The inheritors of the heavenly inheritance being the antitype for....

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