ROMANS CHAPTER 10:1-21 ISRAEL’S PRESENT CONDITION

Mike Balloun teaches today 01-16-21.

THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 10:1-21
ISRAEL’S PRESENT CONDITION

VERSES: Numbers 35; Ephesians 2:14-16; Isaiah 8:14, 51:1-8, 61:10; Deuteronomy 30:10-20;

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“What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.” [Romans 9:30-10:3]

Paul has been laying the groundwork to rebuke and enlighten the Roman Gentile believers in Jesus Christ to the realities of God’s Salvation Plan for all mankind. Due to Emperor Claudius’s banishing of all Jews from Rome, the Gentile believers in Christ had developed the idea that God had finally finished with Israel. (This is when Replacement Theology crept in.) They were developing anti-Semitism due to their ignorance of God’s Salvation Plan. The challenge before us here in these ‘short’ lessons is to present the fullness of Truth as it relates to today’s present New Man, in order to minister according to practical needs and also to minister a revelatory historical and future directional picture by combining the prophetic word and bringing out the reality from the shadows of the Old Testament. Both in order to clearly define the different mysterious moves of God in His Salvation Plan on a personal level and for all mankind. 

We must take Chapters 9-11 all together, not tear them apart to prove this or that theological misunderstanding and misrepresentation. It is only in this broader understanding of the prophetic and shadowing of the Old Testament that we will see clearly the intent of Paul’s letter to the Romans and not distort it by chopping up these 3 Chapters to suit our particular theological fancy. 

Who is Israel that Paul is writing about here? Who are the elect of God he has been referring to? It is not saved Messianic Jews converted to Christ. It is not saved Gentiles. It is unsaved Israel, as can clearly be seen in verse 2 where Paul says it is his heart’s desire for them to be saved. It is unsaved national Israel estranged from God throughout these three chapters that Paul is referring to. They were/are in a current state of stubborn blindness and deafness in true Biblical righteousness, and their condition is a result of the Judgment of hardening by God, of which Isaiah had warned about. 

The 9th Chapter told of their past calling out of God, and now in the 10th Chapter is the understanding of their present state or condition with God (if Paul had stopped here at the end of the 10th Chapter, we might of agreed with those Roman Gentile believers; in that God has surely replaced Israel). But Chapter 11 is where Paul confronts growing anti-Semitism and replacement theology as he then openly declares the sure saving in the future restoration of Israel.

Now the lost Israel of that day, over which Paul grieved, was because of his knowing their blindness to be chronic, and was due to God’s pronounced judgments from Isaiah’s day, that will, according to Scripture, last until the end times, when only a continued remnant of the living will ultimately be saved. That insight brings Paul naturally to an ultra compassionate place for Israel. The remnant of that future Day could be compared with the remnant of which Paul was a part of at Christ’s first coming; wherein Paul received the calling of the New Man under the Seed (Jesus) of Abraham. Whereas the elect of Israel in the last days are after the calling of the seed (progeny) of Abraham. (Revelation 7:1-8) More on that in a moment.

Before we go any further in Romans 10, let us state some Scriptural prophetic and typical understandings little known about to mainstream modern-day Christians; that will help us take the meaning of what Paul is saying in its entirety. First, is the Scriptural understanding that God has 3 First-Born Sons…Jesus Christ, Israel (Jews) and the New Man (Jewish and Gentile Christians). The Father has one Bride; Israel (typically Sarah) but.....

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