I'm hard pressed to see how this type of rhetoric
helps the people who have been taught that Romans 11 means that the Jews will come to Christ after gentile times end. Are you here to help change their minds?
Perhaps, it would be more helpful to lend your insights on it?-
Romans 11-
25For I do not want you, brothers
and sisters, 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;
26and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written:
“THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION,
HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.”
27“THIS IS
[k]MY COVENANT WITH THEM,
WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.”
28In relation to the gospel
they are enemies on your account, but in relation to
God’s choice
they are beloved on account of the fathers;
29for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
30For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,
31so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy.
32For God has shut up all in disobedience, so that He may show mercy to all.
You’re asking if I want to help people who were taught Scofield’s version of Romans 11 — that “the Jews will come to Christ after Gentile times end.”
Yes, I want to help. But not by sugarcoating the
error. I want to
rescue people from a Zionist fantasy that’s delaying their obedience to the Gospel.
Let’s go through Romans 11 and clear this up —
without Scofield goggles:
Romans 11:25 — “A partial hardening has happened to Israel…”
Correct. But Paul is explaining a
mystery — not laying out a prophecy chart. The hardening was partial because
not all Jews rejected Christ. Paul himself was a Jew. So were Peter, James, John, and thousands more. Acts 2–4 shows a
Jewish remnant coming to Christ
immediately — fulfilling the remnant theology of Isaiah (Rom 9:27).
“...until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in”
This doesn’t mean “
then God will save the Jews en masse later.” No — it means
God is building one body, and when the full number of Gentiles are grafted in,
the covenant plan is complete. There’s
no second chance prophecy here — just the timeline of mercy: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile, and
then both as one.
Romans 11:26 — “And so all Israel will be saved”
Here’s the verse Scofield-Dispensationalists like to butcher.
Paul doesn’t say “
and then all Israel will be saved” — he says
“and so all Israel will be saved.” In Greek:
houtōs — meaning
“in this way,” or
“thus.”
So what way?
By faith.
By grafting into Christ.
Not by ethnicity.
Not by some future event in Tel Aviv.
He’s saying: this is
how Israel —
true, spiritual Israel (Rom 9:6-8) — will be saved: by being
grafted back into their own olive tree through faith in Christ, just like the Gentiles.
Romans 11:27 — “This is my covenant with them…”
Yes — the covenant is Christ. Not land. Not a temple. Not bloodline.
When will their sins be taken away?
“Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” — John 1:29
“This cup is the new covenant in My blood.” — Luke 22:20
That covenant
already came. And it’s irrevocable —
but only through Christ.
Romans 11:28–29 — “Enemies… yet beloved… for the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable”
Yes. The
Jews as a people were chosen to bring forth the
Messiah, the
Scriptures, and the
oracles of God (Rom 3:2). That gift and calling stands — because God used them to birth the New Covenant.
But don’t twist that to mean
modern ethnic Jews are saved apart from Christ or will be saved later by nationality.
Paul said they are “
enemies of the Gospel” —
that’s not a compliment.
Romans 11:30–31 — “So they may now receive mercy”
Right —
now. Not after a rapture chart.
Now. The entire point of Paul’s analogy is urgency:
“Do not be arrogant… Do not be wise in your own eyes… God did not spare the natural branches…”
(Romans 11:20–21)
This is
not about postponing Jewish salvation.
It’s about warning Gentile believers not to get cocky — because
salvation has one door, and His name is Jesus.
Romans 11 isn’t teaching a future wave of national ethnic salvation.
It’s showing the mystery of how
God saves a remnant from both Jew and Gentile into one body — the Church.
The olive tree is Christ.
The branches are believers.
The root is the promise.
And the grafting is by faith —
not ethnicity.
So yes, I’m here to help. But not by propping up Zionist pipe dreams.
I’m here to declare what Paul did:
“They are not all Israel who are descended from Israel.” (Romans 9:6)
“If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed.” (Galatians 3:29)