Israel and The Church
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God’s Elect Includes Jewish People
God’s Elect Includes Jewish People
1 I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? 3 “Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” 4 But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5 In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice. 6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
μὴ γένοιτο
This is as forceful a negative as one can write in Koine Greek. Absolutely Not!
What does Paul mean by “foreknow?”
What he does not mean is what many Arminians think he means: God’s knowledge is passive. God Learns.
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 30.100 προβλέπομαι; προγινώσκω
to choose or select in advance of some other event—‘to choose beforehand, to select in advance.’
Notice that the text does not say that God foreknew WHAT they would do. When God is the subject, it always refers to the person, not the actions of that person.
Divine knowledge is determinative. God does not learn. God’s knowledge of all creation is grounded in his decree, which is grounded in his nature.
God knows the future perfectly because God decreed it.
29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
What is the example Paul uses to answer this question?
Paul is an Israel and God has not rejected him.
God did not reject Elijah.
God had already reserved 7,000 people for Himself.
Think about like this: God has not exclude the Jewish people from the New Covenant without exception.
It is according to God’s gracious election
It is according to God’s gracious election
οὕτως οὖν καὶ
In this way, therefore, also…or in the same way.
ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ λεῖμμα κατʼ ἐκλογὴν χάριτος γέγονεν
In the present time a remnant according to election gracious it happened.
If it were based on anything in us, it would not be by grace.
Not works, not ethnic group, not our nature, gender, potential, etc.
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4 Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.
7 What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened; 8 just as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, Eyes to see not and ears to hear not, Down to this very day.” 9 And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, And a stumbling block and a retribution to them. 10 “Let their eyes be darkened to see not, And bend their backs forever.”
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 30.93 ἐκλεκτός, ή, όν; ἐκλογή, ῆς
(derivatives of ἐκλέγομαιb and ἐκλογήa ‘to choose, choice,’ 30.92) that which has been chosen—‘chosen.’
From the semantic domain “To Choose, To Select, To Prefer.”
Israel has not obtained what they were seeking.
But those who were chosen obtained it.
The rest were hardened.
11 for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,
52 for they had not gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but their heart was hardened.
14 But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.
4 “Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.
Israel’s Rejection is Not Total
Israel’s Rejection is Not Total
11 I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous. 12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be! 13 But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them. 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16 If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.
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Israel’s fall as a nation was not the end of God’s purpose. The purpose was always to bring salvation to all people groups.
Paul is attempting to move some of his people group to jealousy in the hopes of saving some.
Israel’s fall is not total destruction.
What can we make of this word fulfillment?
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 59.32 πλήρωμα, τος
total quantity, with emphasis upon completeness—‘full number, full measure, fullness, completeness, totality.
This points to the total number of elect that will be saved.
V. 15 is the parallel passage.
15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament: Romans Exegesis and Exposition
Most scholars, however, rightly understand the phrase “life from the dead” to refer to the physical resurrection of the dead. That is, the salvation of “all Israel” (cf. 11:26) will be the climax of this age and will be followed by the resurrection.