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Jim
IP: 71.100.232.252 Jan 30, 08 - 4:14 PM |
Correlating Acts 3:22-23 and Romans 11:16-24 / 11:25-27
Hello, Peter and Paul: (ASV) Acts 3:13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Servant Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. 14 But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you, 15 and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. 17 And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. 18 But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. ... 22 Moses indeed said, A PROPHET SHALL THE LORD GOD RAISE UP UNTO YOU FROM AMONG (OUT OF / EK) YOUR BRETHREN, like unto me. To him shall ye hearken in all things whatsoever he shall speak unto you. 23 And it shall be, that EVERY SOUL THAT SHALL NOT HEARKEN TO THAT PROPHET, SHALL BE UTTERLY DESTROYED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE. ... 26 UNTO YOU FIRST GOD, HAVING RAISED UP HIS SERVANT, SENT HIM TO BLESS YOU, IN TURNING AWAY EVERY ONE OF YOU FROM YOUR INIQUITIES. (ASV) Romans 11:16 ... if the Root is holy, so are the branches. 17 But if SOME OF THE BRANCHES WERE BROKEN OFF, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the Root ... 18 ... it is not thou that bearest the Root, but the Root thee. ... 20 ... BY THEIR UNBELIEF THEY WERE BROKEN OFF, and thou standest by thy faith. ... 22 Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God's goodness, if thou continue in his goodness ... 23 ... IF THEY CONTINUE NOT IN THEIR UNBELIEF, (THEY) SHALL BE GRAFTED IN; for God is able to graft them in again. 24 ... thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and (THOU) WAST GRAFTED CONTRARY TO NATURE INTO A (CULTIVATED) TREE ... THESE, WHICH ARE THE NATURAL, (SHALL) BE GRAFTED INTO THEIR OWN OLIVE TREE ... 25 ... A HARDENING IN PART HATH BEFALLEN ISRAEL, UNTIL THE FULNESS OF THE GENTILES (ENTERS). 26 And (in this manner) all Israel shall be saved ... as it is written, THERE SHALL COME OUT OF (EK) ZION THE DELIVERER. HE SHALL TURN AWAY UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB. 27 And THIS IS MY COVENANT UNTO THEM, WHEN I SHALL TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS. Jim: All of the fellow believing branches are fellow partakers of the same holy Root. They all are fellow receivers of the same thing, and they all are fellow participants in the same status. Aside from their origins (natural versus foreign), what is true of one is true of all. If one is a citizen of the believing part of Israel, then so are all fellow citizens of the believing part of Israel. Compare these two passages quoted above. Who are the “people” from among whom the Jewish unbelievers are destroyed by not believing in the “Prophet” (Christ)? These “people” are the Jewish believers. From what are the Jewish unbelievers excluded / broken off? They are excluded / broken off from fellow citizenship with the Jewish believers (the “people”). Into what will the Jewish unbelievers be engrafted when they finally believe in the Prophet (Christ)? They will be engrafted into the very thing from which they had previously been removed / broken off, namely, fellow citizenship with the Jewish believers. Into what then are the Gentile believers now being engrafted by believing in the Prophet (Christ)? They are now being engrafted into the very thing from which the Jewish unbelievers have been excluded / broken off by their unbelief toward the Prophet (Christ) and into which the Jewish unbelievers will later be engrafted when they finally believe in the Prophet (Christ), namely, fellow citizenship with the Jewish believers (the “people”). What is the sequence in which all of this happens? The sequence is this: (1) The “Prophet” (Christ) arises “out of” (ek) the “people.” (the Jews). (2) This Prophet is like Moses; just as Moses brought the people (the Jews) into the Old Covenant, likewise this Prophet brings the people (the Jews) into the New Covenant. (3) This Prophet “turns away” the iniquities/ungodlinesses of the people (the Jews). (4) The Jews who do not believe in this Prophet are destroyed / removed / broken off from fellow citizenship with the Jews who believe (the “people”) in this Prophet (Christ). (5) The Gentiles who believe in this Prophet enter / are engrafted into the very same fellow citizenship with the Jewish believers (the “people”) from which the Jewish unbelievers had been destroyed / removed / broken off by their unbelief toward the Prophet (Christ). (6) Once the fullness of the Gentiles has entered / been engrafted into fellow citizenship with the “people” (Jewish believers) by believing in the Prophet (Christ), then the Jewish unbelievers will likewise believe in the Prophet (Christ) and they will likewise enter / be engrafted into fellow citizenship with the “people” (both Jewish believers and Gentile believers). Question: Who are the “people” who believe in the “Prophet”? They are the “people” who comprise Israel. Which Israel? The Israel in Romans 9:6-8, or the Israel in Romans 9:31-32/11:7-11? The Israel in Romans 9:6-8. Gentile believers are included in the fellow citizenship of this believing, New Covenant Israel (the “people”) in Romans 9:6-8 for the same reason that Jewish unbelievers are excluded from the fellow citizenship of this believing, New Covenant Israel (the “people”) in Romans 9:6-8, the reason being that fellow citizenship in this believing, New Covenant Israel (the “people”) in Romans 9:6-8 is based on believing in the “Prophet” (Christ). This is why, after having identified the children of the promise / the children of God as all believers in Christ (the Prophet), both Gentile and Jew, namely “us/we,” in Romans 4:13-16 / 8:14-18, Paul identifies the fellow citizens of the believing, New Covenant Israel in Romans 9:6-8 as the children of the promise / the children of God (“us/we”), that is, all believers in the Prophet (Christ), both Gentile and Jew. The “us/we” in Romans 9:6-8 is the same “us” in Romans 4:13-16 and the same “we” in Romans 8:14-18 and the same “us” in Romans 9:22-24. “We” are the “people” who believe in the “Prophet” and who thus comprise the fellow citizenship of New Covenant Israel. Jim |
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