Has His lovingkindness ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end forever? (Psalm 77:8)
I. The Grand Question
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. (Romans 9:6)
I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? (Romans 11:1)
…for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. (Romans 11:29)
II. The Promises
To Abraham - Genesis 12
To David - 2Samuel 7
To Zechariah - Zechariah 2 & 8
III. The Answer
Who are the people of God?
The answer from Romans 9; (cf Rom 11:7)
The answer from Romans 10; (cf Rom 11:22)
IV. Romans 11
But what about Israel then? Is there nothing for them?
How to understand “all Israel” (v26)
For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery--so that you will not be wise in your own estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB." (Romans 11:25-26)
An end-time conversion of the Jews?
chart from Hoekema, The Bible & the Future, p145.
