WHAT ABOUT NATURAL ISRAEL
IN OUR FUTURE?


The Jews are indeed a loved people by believers due to the Lord's fleshly heritage as a man. It is precious that the Lord came through them to be in the earthy through incarnation. God used that nation and kept them from idolatry as an incubator to later come through them and give us salvation.

I handle the issue the way Paul did. Watch:

Paul said they had the oracles of God.

Romans 3:1-2 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?  Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
However, that makes them none the less in need of faith just as we have it.

And Paul later says, after the above verses...

Romans 3:9-10 What then? are we (PAUL WAS A JEW, SAYING "WE" AS SPEAKING OF "WE JEWS") better than they (GENTILES)? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
They are sinners as well as we were without Christ.

Paul stressed that sin makes a Jew a sinner just like a Gentile is a sinner.

Romans 2:25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Being a Jew by nature does not give one any more leverage with God than does being a gentile. God is no respecter of persons.

Ask yourself why you believe God will work with natural Israel as a whole in our future. What scriptures teach that? I think you will learn that Romans 11 is where that idea comes from.

Jews can be saved today as much as any nationality can be saved, for salvation is for those of every nation and tribe and tongue and language. The people's fleshly heritage, though, is of no spiritual consequence in God's eyes since the cross, except that from Paul's day and onward God would restore national Israel to Himself apart from the work with the remnant. But the question is really whether or not this will occur outside the Church. In Paul's day, Paul preached to Gentiles in order to stir that greater part of Israel to emulation and save some of them (Rom 11:14-15). Had Paul felt Israel would never be saved through the means of the church, he would not have done this. Therefore, we can see a note of how Paul had no concept of Israel being saved after the church is removed from the world. Ask yourself, where does Paul explicitly state the church will be gone when Israel comes to God. IT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE.

Some contend that the phrase "...until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in," in Rom 11:25, refers to the Church age ending.

Rom 11:25-26 KJV  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.  (26)  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:

That would imply the Church is a GENTILE body of people. And this idea is very popular today, but it is severely wrong and actually denies scripture teaching otherwise.

Paul plainly taught that the entire Mystery of the Church is that it is a single body of Jews and Gentiles brought together in fellowship.

Eph 2:11-19 KJV Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; (12) That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: (13) But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. (14) For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; (15) Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; (16) And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: (17) And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. (18) For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. (19) Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Eph 3:4-9 KJV Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) (5) Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; (6) That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: (7) Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. (8) Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; (9) And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

The fellowship of this mystery is the fellowship of Jews and Gentiles in one body. God broke down the middle wall of partition that divided the Jews and Gentiles, so they could join together in one body, the Church. Why would Paul, let alone God, speak of the Church as being Gentile in Romans 11:25, then? He would have rendered all his teachings about the Jews and Gentiles in one body of the church to be meaningless.

One minister with whom I discussed this issue argued that Paul was speaking of the first century, where it was both Jewish and Gentile. I responded requiring him to show me where Paul made that distinction in the writings of Ephesians where he clearly wrote saying the fellowship of the mystery was simply a general Church issue, and not a first-century church issue. He replied telling me that I had to admit there were more Gentiles in the Church than there were Jews today. I responded in turn saying that if the whole world was saved, there would be more Gentiles in the church than there would be Jews! Take any nationality, and contrast their numbers with the rest of the nationalities in the church put together, and you will find any nationality is in the minority. Such reasoning this brother provided was simply silly. But it was all done in attempts to maintain the thought that the Church is Gentile, so he could argue that Israel will be saved after the Gentile Church is removed from the world, according to Romans 11:25-26. Bad form.

Romans 11 does teach a future working with that nation as a whole from perspective of the day of Paul when he wrote Romans 11. But they will come in as any people will come in. Same opportunity and same chance. In fact, we read in Romans 11 that Israel will be saved by way of the heathen!

Rom 11:30-31 KJV For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: (31) Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

The above verse tells us that through the gentiles' mercy Israel would receive mercy. I believe this is referring to the instrumentality of the gentile people in the church! They will come to know Christ by the gentile members of the Church! So, how can Israel be saved in this way after the church is removed from the world?

In the kingdom of God there is neither Jew nor Gentile. We lose all carnal distinctions of this world when we are baptized into Christ, but Paul does speak of members of the Church who came from the ethnic backgrounds of Jewish of gentile peoples.

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.