Jesus and the Jew

Rom 11:25 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.

Rom 11:25 is an important warning from God to us Christians.

Before the time of the Gentiles, the Jews were arrogant in boasting that God was theirs alone. This verse warns Christinas not to make that same mistake against the Jews. That kind of thinking is referred to as "blindness"

The proceeding verse puts it into it's context...

Rom 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural [branches], be graffed into their own olive tree?

This verse makes it clear that God is talking about the Jews in the context of salvation.

The Gentiles were initially not included into God's covenant with the Jews. We were "grafted in" God is telling us that we are not to get arrogant in believing that we have taken the place of the Jews - that God took away the promise He made with the Jews, and gave it to us. He did not do that. God "included" us into His promise with the Jews. We are "partakers" in the covenant - this new covenant did not include a breaking of the old covenant with the Jews - we are "included" in it. God doesn't break His promises...ever.

So the warning stands, that we shouldn't make the same arrogant mistake the Jews made in believing they had God exclusively - they didn't, and neither do we.

Rom 11:26 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:

Rom 11:27 For this [is] my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

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