Musick-al note # 301
Paul in writing to the Romans said, “And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob” (Romans 11:26). In stating that ALL ISRAEL will be saved, he did not mean all the Jews or Israelites as counted from birth but ALL SPIRITUAL ISRAEL will be saved. He had stated earlier, “For they are not all Israel who are of Israel” (Romans 9:6). Who then is the Israel that he is speaking about? He said, “nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed shall be called.” That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the
children of the promise are counted as the seed” (Romans 9:7-8). Then in Galatians 4:28 he said, “Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.” John also spoke of the believers being the children of God in 1 John 3:1-2, “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” Christians are then the true Children of God or true Israel and they all shall be saved.
Gordon Musick
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