The Bible says in Romans 11 when Israel will be saved. When will Israel be saved? When Jesus comes back. When will He come back? After the…? Thank you, after the tribulation. I didn't ask when will the rapture happen because that’s not something that we know. But I know that seven years after the tribulation begins, it ends. How do I know that? The Bible tells me. And when Jesus comes back, He is not coming back for us. He’s coming back with us. Wait. And He’s landing on where? Mount Rushmore? No, where? Mount of Olives. And the Bible says, “They look at Me whom they pierced and they will mourn and they will cry.” And that’s the repentance of the remnant of Israel. And all Israel will be saved. The times of the Gentiles will come to an end. I didn’t say that. Paul said that. Jesus told it.
Romans 11:1-2
I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew.
Of the many reasons to reject the heresy of Replacement Theology, one word in what Paul wrote in Romans 11 is the proverbial nail in the coffin for this errant teaching. The word is “foreknew.” God foreknew the majority of Jews would reject Jesus as the Messiah, yet He brought Him into the world through them.
He foreknew this rejection would last for over two millennia. He also foreknew that someday all Israel would be saved when they looked upon Jesus as His feet touched down on the Mount of Olives. At that time, they mourn in a way one would mourn the loss of an only child.
Hosea 5:15
“I will return again to My place till they acknowledge their offense. Then they will seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
He also foreknew that the afflictions of the 70th week of Daniel would be the catalyst for this awakening and, in the end, lead to their earnest seeking of Him.
That doesn’t mean the Jews will be saved because they are Jews. It means the Jews will be saved through the same means as the Gentiles, through the shed blood of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Leviticus 17:11
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.”
Hebrews 10:4
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
Hebrews 10:10
By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
No one, including the Jews, can be saved through any other means than the blood of Jesus Christ shed for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2). The fact that Zechariah 12:10 says “they will look upon the One whom they pierced” tells us they will finally realize who Isaiah 53 was referring to when he spoke of the one who was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities. When they do so, it will include all of the Jews who survived the tribulation.
What a tremendous reminder of the grace and mercy of God, the same God who has shown such grace and mercy to us!
Someday soon, it seems, Jesus is coming for His church to take them to the Father’s house. Seven years later, He is coming back with His church to the earth and, at that moment, all Israel will be saved.
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus