The Restoration of the Nation of Israel

 Temple Baptist Church - 8-4-2024

Romans 11:25

 

Introduction:

 

A.  We have looked at the Selection of the Nation of Israel, God’s Glory—apple of God’s eye—God’s Elect Nation—the Nation God loves over all others!  Again, this love is national, not personal.  God loves every man, woman, and child.  God wants them to be saved through faith in the finished work of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.

 

B.  My opening statement will be distasteful to many in our day as the nations of the world, including the United States of America, are turning their backs on Israel and backing Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.

 

1.  I find this to be amazing as Israel has been the victim of unprovoked attacks against its civilians by all three of these groups.  Murder, rape, torture, hostages, missile attacks along with constant incursions into Israel to attack innocent civilians.

 

2.  Israel strikes back as they should and there will be collateral damage as these ungodly cowards hide and attack behinds the skirts of women and children. Hospitals, schools, daycare centers, etc.

 

3.  Israel MUST respond, and the world and fake news makes them the aggressors instead of the victims.

 

4.  Why?  Because God is setting up “Jacob’s Trouble” also called the “Tribulation Period,” where the nations of the world, under the leadership of their “god,” Satan will attack Israel in an attempt (notice I said attempt) to destroy the nation and annihilate the Jewish people.

 

C.  We saw the Rejection of the Nation of Israel.  Notice again I said the Nation of Israel, not individual Israelis.  Romans 10 speaks of their “righteousness” and ignorant of God’s “righteousness” as a rejection of Christ Jesus, who is the end of the Law of Righteousness.

 

1.  Man’s righteousness leads to spiritual death and hell.

 

2.  God’s righteousness leads to a state of impeccability because it is His and not ours.  Our righteousness is the imputed righteousness of Christ Jesus and it is the only righteousness that will take the sinner to heaven!

 

D.    This morning, we will look at the Restoration of the Nation of Israel.  Several questions were asked and answered in chapters 10 and 11 of Romans.  God gives immediate answers to each question so as to stop people from drawing their own conclusions.  Someone said that if you ask 10 people a question, you may get as many as 15 answers.

 

E.  These questions give us the biblical ability to know what God’s plan is for an elect but partially blinded (nation and not individual) nation.

 

1.  The answer to salvation.  Isarel Slipped, Stumbled, Slept, and Sleeps On.  It is all of Christ Jesus or it is nothing at all!

 

a.  The Nation of Israel Slipped.  Romans 10:3-4  For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.  (4)  For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

 

b.  The Nation of Israel Stumbled.  Romans 11:9  And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

 

c.  The Nation of Israel Slept.  God broke off the natural branches (Israel) and grafted in the Gentile nations.

 

d.  The Nation of Israel Continues today to sleep.  There is a vail over their hearts when the Word of God is read or heard.

 

2.  Is God done with Israel.  “Hath God cast away his people?”  Chapter 11:1.  The answer is no:

 

Romans 11:1-2  God forbid ... God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.

 

a.  Nationally blinded to the gospel.

 

Romans 11:10  Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

 

Romans 11:25  For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

 

b.  Individually open to the gospel. 

 

Romans 11:5  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

 

3.  Have they stumbled that they should fall.  God forbid!  Their fall was the salvation of the Gentiles.  It also provokes Israel to jealousy.  Israel’s “fall” is only partial and temporary.

 

Romans 11:11  I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

 

4.  When will Israel be restored?  At the end of “Jacob’s Trouble!”

 

Romans 11:25-27  For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.  (26)  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:  (27)  For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

 

5.  Prophecy fulfilled with Israel.  God’s “Time Piece!”

 

a.  Two thousand years ago, Israel rejected Christ (John 1:11) and became nationally blinded.

 

b.  For the past two thousand, the gospel has been preached to the Gentiles as God is calling out His Church, the Body of Christ made up of every born-again believer.

 

c.  At the end of the church age, we find the Gentiles falling away from biblical salvation and embracing religion which is a mixture of faith and works.  It is either works or faith and, like oil and water, they CANNOT mix.

 

Romans 11:5-6  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.  (6)  And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

 

d.  The next major event on God’s Calendar.  The Rapture of Catching Away of God’s Church (1 Thessalonians 4:13-14) and the beginning of Jacob’s Trouble, the Tribulation Period.

 

e.  The Second Coming of Christ at the end of the Tribulation Period; the destruction of the nations who war against Israel. Revelation, chapter 19.

 

f.  Israel’s restoration through the knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and King.

 

Romans 11:25-26  For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.  (26)  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:

 

Zechariah 13:6-9  And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.  (7)  Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.  (8)  And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.  (9)  And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

 

6.  One day soon, Israel will be grafted back in and will walk in the light of the New Jerusalem forever.  What a day that will be but, until then, we will continue to bless and pray for Israel.  The Nation of Israel belongs to God!