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How can Israel include the church when v25/26 together go as below?????
V25 and 26 are literally the same sentence, and v25 refers to the hardening of Israel and contrasts Israel with the Gentiles.
Also see verses 2 and 7, which use the word Israel in the same way, referring to their hardening. Is the church that which is hardened and is non-Gentile?? Israel = Jews here, unambiguously.
Romans 11:25-26 NASB
For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery-so that you will not be wise in your own estimation-that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; [26] and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "The DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB."
Israel is compared to an olive tree earlier, branches were broken off so that the gentiles could be grafted in, once the olive tree is complete, it shall be said, all Israel is saved.
Another dodge of the scripture.
Paul is reminding them that God hasn't left the Jews, to keep preaching to them because some of them will be grafted in again.
Back up again, could you please pick somewhere higher up the thread and restart there so we don't end up with an indecipherable thread?
How can Israel include the church when v25/26 together go as below?????
V25 and 26 are literally the same sentence, and v25 refers to the hardening of Israel and contrasts Israel with the Gentiles. Also see verses 2 and 7, which use the word Israel in the same way, referring to their hardening. Is the church that which is hardened and is non-Gentile?? Israel = Jews here, unambiguously.
Romans 11:25-26 NASB For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery-so that you will not be wise in your own estimation-that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; [26] and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "The DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB."
Israel is compared to an olive tree earlier, branches were broken off so that the gentiles could be grafted in, once the olive tree is complete, it shall be said, all Israel is saved.