What is Romans 11 about regarding Israel and the Gentiles?
Romans 11 concerns Israel's rejection of God's promises and His response: He strips the branches from the tree, which is Israel rooted in Abraham, and grafts in the Gentiles. This fulfills the Abrahamic covenant promise that all families of the earth would be blessed through Abraham's seed.
Les teaches that Romans 11 is an account of how Israel had rejected everything, and God is going to literally strip the branches from the tree, which is Israel, that is rooted in Abraham, and He is going to graft in the Gentiles. This ties back to the Abrahamic covenant, where God promised Abraham that in him all the families of the earth would be blessed, primarily through Christ, the seed of the woman coming through the seed of Abraham. The account connects to Romans 11:15, 'For if the casting away of them...' It follows Israel's rejection of Christ and the move into the Church Age after the conversion of Saul of Tarsus.
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
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Does the reconciling of the world in Romans 11 mean the whole world will be saved?
The reconciliation language connected to the casting away of Israel does not mean the whole world is going to be saved.