For anyone who wants to go back and read my summaries on all of Romans 9-11, click the links below. Enjoy! God’s Faithfulness, Election, and Israel (Romans 9:1–13) The God of Sovereign Justice (Romans 9:14–24) Prepared for Glory or Destruction: By Whom, When, and How? (Romans 9:22–23) Righteousness: Accomplished in Jesus Christ (Romans 10:1–4) The… Read More »
Romans 11:28–32 closes Romans 11:11–32 and all of Romans 9–11 with a summary of God’s present and future dealings with Israel. Romans 11:28 describes God’s present posture towards Israel. On the one hand, He is at enmity with Israel. God has hardened Israel, and she has rejected Christ and the gospel. This enmity is “for… Read More »
Romans 11:25–27 provokes many questions for the interpreter of Scripture, including the phrase “And in this way all Israel will be saved” (Rom 11:26), which one commentator calls “the storm center in the interpretation of Rom. 9–11.”1 What follows are a summary of many of those questions, as well as a summary of answers for… Read More »
Romans 11:16–24 memorably illustrates Israel’s future salvation in two ways. First, Paul speaks of “the dough offered as firstfruits,” something which eventually becomes “the whole lump” (Romans 11:16a). Second, he speaks of “the root” and its outgrowth, “the branches” (Romans 11:16b). He then expands this second illustration to include Gentiles as well (Romans 11:17–24). What… Read More »
Romans 9–11 is central to understanding God’s plan for Israel. We learned in Romans 9 that a remnant of Israelites believe, thanks to the electing grace of God. From God’s perspective, He chose Israel for salvation, and specifically, a remnant within Israel who would be “truly Israel” (cf. Rom 9:6, 27). We then learned in… Read More »
In Romans 9–11, Paul addresses Israel’s present unbelief and future salvation. A quick sketch up to Romans 10:14–21 is that chapter 9 discusses this unbelief from God’s perspective while chapter 10 explains it from Israel’s perspective. Israel has rejected the righteousness of God in Christ because she pursued her own righteousness through the law, a… Read More »
In a previous post, I began a series of posts to summarize Romans 9–11 passage by passage. In Romans 9:1–13, Paul begins to explain “God’s purpose of election” for Israel (Romans 9:11; cf. 9:4–5). In short, God’s promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did not mean that every ethnic Israelite was an Israelite who was… Read More »
Romans 9–11 is a difficult and debated section of Scripture in terms of God’s role in salvation and ethnic Israel’s role in the redemptive plan of God. Over the next few weeks, I hope to crystallize my own thoughts about these chapters into a few posts, passage by passage, as we work through this section… Read More »