Les Feldick Bible Study

Is Israel still blinded as a nation, and can an individual Jew still be saved?

Yes. Israel remains nationally blinded, as Paul repeats from Isaiah in Romans chapter 11, but that blindness is national, not individual. A Jewish person can still be saved and enter an individual relationship with God even while the nation remains under that national blindness.

Les teaches that God made a national covenant with Israel, and that covenant involved the whole nation. Yet a nation is made up of individuals, so God deals with the Jew individually. When Scripture says the nation of Israel shall be blinded, that is a national matter: nationally they have been blinded and are still blind. But an individual Jew can still be saved and come into an individual relationship with God even though the nation has been blinded. Les ties this to Israel's calling as God's peculiar treasure, a treasure of intrinsic value beyond comprehension, chosen above all people because God is sovereign and all the earth is His.