HP, God will come to Israel's rescue when the time comes. Romans 11:26 declares, All Israel will be saved. Zechariah 12:10 reveals that Israel will welcome the Messiah. Romans 11:27 confirms that Israel will come to repentance. Israel will welcome the Messiah when the Gentiles have come in. This is in process now.
In Romans 11:25 it reads, For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be
wise in your own opinion, that the blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
According to John Hagee's book, Final Dawn over Jerusalem, the word translated fullness is the Greek word pleroma. The word refers not to a numerical capacity, but to a sense of completeness. Scholars Walter C. Kaiser Jr, Peter H. Davids, F.F. Bruce and Manfred Brauch in Hard Sayings of the Bible wrote that The Completion of the mission to the Gentiles will result in, or lead to, Israel's fullness or completion (Romans 11:12) her acceptance ( Romans 11:15) Also stated by Hagee was that Paul proclaiming this future realization of God's intention as "a mystery" (Romans 11:25) and states the most instructive parallel to this text - which envisions the grafting of both Gentile and Jew into the same olive tree - is Ephesians 3:3-6, where Paul says that the content of the mystery of Christ is the inclusion of the Gentiles as fellow heirs of the promise with Jews in the new community of Christ's body.
Bible scholars agree with Paul's statement that "all Israel will be saved" as a whole, not every single individual. Just as the phrase "the fullness of the Gentiles" ( Romans 11:25) does not mean every single Gentile will accept Jesus as Messiah.....................but when the fullness of the Gentiles has come, that is, when the Gentiles time of grace is completed, then God will remove their blindness (Romans 11:10) to the identity of Messiah and all Israel will be saved ( Romans 11:26)
I find that explanation in John Hagee's book to be quite good. That is why those who are lost, H.P., must come to Jesus Christ now - while the window of opportunity is opened. There will come a day when it will be too late.
With that realize this: there will be Muslims who will receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and they will be saved and receive eternal life and heaven - there will be Pagans who will receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and they will be saved and Hindus, Greeks who worship false gods, Catholics, Jehovah Witnesses, Jews, people of every walk of life - there will be some who will receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and live holy unto Him, obeying Him and they will receive eternal life and heaven.
There will also be some who will not and they will be shut out of heaven. And there will be many born again believers shut out of the kingdom of heaven because they didn't believe Jesus when he said the road is narrow and few will find it. They did not believe Jesus when he said, those that endure until the end the same shall be saved. (Matthew 24:13) They did not believe Jesus when he said, If you love me, keep my commandments. If you love me, obey me. Keep yourselves separated from the world. The love of the world is to be at enmity with God. It is to be at war with God.
There will be many, many people who will come to him on that day and say Lord, didn't we do these works in your name? Laying hands on the sick, casting out demons, preaching the Gospel, doing the works of God - the signs following the believers as written in Mark 16:15-18 but because they did not come out of sin they will die.
For it is written:
Ezekiel 18 20 The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.
That is a warning to the Matthew 22 churches who refused to receive the invitation given them by the Kings servants - they eventually lost their invitation because they were busy with the affairs of the world and had no time for Jesus. They were compromising with sin and with the world. The King said ( I am paraphrasing ) to his servants, that is enough. They don't deserve to come. Too late for them. Time is up.
Now go to the highways and byways and compel those you find to come in. Those who were shut out of the wedding banquet fell under judgment. The King sent his army to destroy them and their cities were burned up, they perished when an enemy invaded. ( The wicked are God's sword - see Psalm 17:13) As to the lukewarm church that was destroyed.... What had been their response to the invitations from the King's servants? When asked to come - they turned on the kings servants to attack them, slander them, murder them, because they knew they were not who they pretended to be. They thought they were rich and in need of nothing, yet they were blind, naked and wretched - a picture of the Laodicean church. (see Rev. 3:14-22) The lukewarm church cannot enter in if they do not repent and the door for repentance is closing. Even now...
As to your writing, H.P., that God murdered Egyptian babies - you need to read the scriptures and learn the reason the angel of death came through the land of Egypt. Pharoah had seen the power of God - he had been ordered to Let God's people go - yet he refused because his heart was hardened. Here is the scriptural explanation here:
Rebecca's children had one and the same father. Isaac. Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad - in order that God's purpose in election might stand: Not by works but by him who calls - she was told, The older will serve the younger. Just as it is written: Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
What shall we say then? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
It does not, therefore depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy, For the Scripture says to Pharoah: I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
One of you will say to me: Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will? But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, Why did you make me like this? Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath - prepared for destruction?
What if he did this to make the glory of his riches known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory - even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? As he says in Hosea, I will call them "My people" who are not my people~ and I will call her "my loved one" who is not my loved one.
(see Romans 9:10-25)
This is what it means - that God loved us
first. How great is the love of God towards us? Is it not most amazing? Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now.........
I see!
