<TITLE>06. Par 42-46</TITLE>L-42 Now, to finish the transgressions of Israel who transgressed against God, will be the turning away of the ungodliness of Jacob. Now, to find this, let's turn to Romans, the 11th chapter of Romans, and begin with the 21st verse of Romans 11. Now, we're going to what? Finish the transgressions. Romans 11:21. All right.
For if God spared not the natural branch,... (Which was who? Israel.)... take heed lest... also he spare not thee... (Now, I want you when you go home to read this whole 11th chapter. I'm just reading this so... Mark down the whole 11th chapter and read it.)... spare not thee.
Behold therefore the goodness... severity of God: on them which fell,... but towards thee, goodness, if thou continue in the goodness: otherwise thou... shall be cut off--also... be cut off.
And they also, if they abide not still in--if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. (See? Telling that there will be a time that when the Gentile will be cut out and Israel come back in again.)
For if thou were cut out of the--of the olive tree which is wild by nature,... (Gentiles)... and were grafted contrary to nature... (We were contrary to nature, alien, without mercy, without God, with no hope at all; and God by His mercy to give us a chance, cut off righteous Israel because of transgressions and turned them aside, the wild--the tame olive tree, and brought in a wild olive tree contrary to nature.)... unto a good... tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
All right, let's read on.
For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceit; that blindness in part of--happened of Israel--happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles... come in.

L-43 Until God is finished with the Gentiles, Israel was blinded. They went off into sin and to transgressions against God, because God blinded their eyes that we might be grafted in. You get it? 26th verse now.
And so all Israel shall be saved:...
God blinded them purposely for you and I. They cannot see, because God blinded them. And all Israel, true Israel, shall be saved. What did the Angel say? Glory. "To finish the transgressions of Israel. I've come to tell you that there'll come a time when Israel's transgressions will be finished." God will cut off that wild branch and graft into that back--that real branch again.
Oh, sometimes it makes my heart jump to see them poor, miserable people cut off out yonder not knowing where they're going, and think that God in His mercy did that so I could be saved, blinded their eyes from their own Messiah, shut their ears up that they could not hear Him, yet looked right at His miracles and looked right at His miracles and things that He was doing.

L-46 Matthew, I believe, the 12th chapter or the 8th or 12th chapter, said: "Though Jesus had done so many miracles, yet they could not believe." Because God said, "They got eyes and they can't see, and ears and they can't hear, unless they would see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and I would convert them." But so that we could have a chance, He pulled the curtain down over His own children's eyes, turned His own children away from the table, and turned them off to leanness of Spirit that He might find--that we might have a chance to live-giving us Life. (26th verse again:)
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written. There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Yes, He will come to Mount Zion one of these days. Upon the Mount of Olives, they'll recognize Him, and all of Israel will know it's Him. The Gentiles will be finished then. That branch that's been grafted in, God will take from it the fruit that's been gathered, and that wild branch will be...


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