What is the opposite/reverse grafting that Romans 11 describes?
Romans 11 describes reverse grafting: Gentiles, a wild olive tree, are grafted in among the Jews, the good olive tree, and partake of its root and fatness. Normally a good hybrid is grafted into a native root; here the good tree is cast aside and the wild, worthless olive is grafted in.
Les teaches that Romans 11:17 presents the direct opposite of normal grafting. Normally, the old native root is kept because it survives local climate and soil, though its fruit may be poor; a horticulturist breeds a good hybrid and grafts it into that root, as with a native pecan receiving a paper-shell hybrid. In this reverse grafting, the beautiful tree is cast aside, and an old wild olive tree—worthless, fruitless, like a bad weed—is grafted in. Gentiles, the wild olive, are grafted in among the Jews and share the root and fatness of the good olive tree.
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
More Questions
Why is the grafting in Romans 11 the opposite of normal grafting?
Paul's grafting illustration in Romans 11 is the direct opposite of how we normally graft trees.
How is the grafting in Romans 11 different from normal grafting?
The grafting Paul describes in Romans 11 is the direct opposite of the way people normally graft trees.
What does Romans 11 teach about Israel's branches and the Gentiles being grafted in?
In Romans chapter 11, God broke off the branches of natural Israel and grafted in the Gentiles.