Ernest T. Bass
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The majority of fleshy Israel became... Christian. You cannot compare unbelieving Israel with those of the seed that have believed on Jesus, and I'm not talking about Jews, I'm talking about the majority of the scattered seed of the "house of Israel" (ten tribes) which were not known as Jews, and are still lost to the world and to the Jews, but not to God. This is why Apostle Paul quoted Hosea 1 to Roman Gentile believers. It's because when The Gospel went forth after the passion of Christ, it went to the ten lost tribes scattered among the Gentiles, and both would become Christ's Church. It literally fulfilled God's promise to Jacob that his seed would become "a company of nations", and to Ephraim that his seed would become "a multitude of nations" (Gen.35 & 48).
Just a remnant were saved, Romans 9:27; Romans 11:4-5.
God's election of fleshly Israel was not an unconditional guarantee of their salvation. Those chosen of God they still had to obey God to be saved and just a remnant obeyed.
Romans 11:4-5 "But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace."
Back in the days of Elijah out of millions of Jews only 7000 were God's people, Paul then points out that in "this present time" there is only remnant of Jews that were God's people. Millions of Jews were not God's people way back then just as it was at this present time....what was true in Elijah's time was true at Paul's time.
That remnant was composed of Paul's time was made of those Jews that obeyed the gospel. In Acts 2 we see the true Israel that is Christianity (spiritual Israel, the church, the true Jew Romans 2:29) coming out of the old fleshly Israel of Judaism.
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