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LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 23
ROMANS 8:31-39
Peter says:
II Peter 1:20
Usually it's because in one instance God is dealing with the Nation of Israel, and in another what may seem contradictory is His dealing with the Church Age. Here are three chapters that sit in the middle of the Book of Romans, and Paul is going to suddenly digress, and deal with the Jew. Chapter 9 is going to deal with the Nation of Israel's past. Chapter 10 is about God dealing with Israel today in the present. And Chapter 11 is Israel's future. How exactly this fits in Romans. We just finished Chapter 8, and all those great verses of assurance in the closing verses, how that Christ died for us, and, consequently, God is for us, no one can be against us:
Romans 8:39
"Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature (creation), shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans Chapter 9 verse 1 just doesn't fit, does it?
Romans 9:1-3
Romans 12:1
If God is securing us so completely that nothing can touch us then I beseech you therefore), brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
Romans 9:1-3
Moses.
Moses the giver of the Law to the Nation of Israel on Mount Sinai, and then comes the Apostle Paul (I think also at Mount Sinai), and God gives him these doctrines of Grace. Both of them make that kind of statement concerning the Nation of Israel. I'm pointing this out to say that probably 90% of Christendom, including the Roman Catholics, as well as Protestants, is of the opinion that God is all through with the Nation of Israel. That God has nothing more to do with the Jew because they rejected and crucified their Messiah. That little Nation of Israel is still God's Covenant people. Those first 2000 years of human history are covered with the first 11 chapters in the Book of Genesis.
God promises that one man, Abram, that out of him He's going to bring about a nation of people totally different than any other race of people on earth. So God gives Abraham the Covenant. Then about 500 years later we find God calls out Moses. Israel is now down in Egypt, they're multiplying, and God tells Moses that He's going to send him into Pharaoh. Now, that was really the whole purpose of bringing the Nation of Israel out of Egypt. And that's what Genesis says, "That when Jacob went down into Egypt, God promised him that there He would make of Jacob, and those twelve sons a nation of people." And that's where the Jewish Nation came from.
Then with King David we find God makes another Covenant, and that is that through King David would come a Royal Family bloodline. And through this Royal Family would come The King of Israel. Romans 9:4
God promised the Nation of Israel over and over. Now, turn with me to Deuteronomy Chapter 4, verses 32 and 33:
Never. So they are a Covenant, special, set aside people. Let's go to II Samuel Chapter 7, as God is now giving David the promise, "That through him would come this royal family." Then in verse 14 God says to David). You bet he will, and remember, God is not just talking about Solomon, but also the Nation of Israel), I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:"
Has God done it to this nation? Over and over Israel has come under the disciplinary action of their God because of their unbelief, and because of their sins. Yes, they're going to commit iniquity, but the flip side is God says:
Regardless of how Israel falls into wickedness - God's going to discipline them, and we know He has. Oh ye Children of Israel." "Ye men of Israel." Some did, but mostly the nation rejected Him. What did God do? Israel was dispersed into every nation on the face of the earth. Then President Harry Truman, bless his heart, was the first world leader to declare the Nation of Israel a sovereign state. Let's go to the Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 31. And when these people try to say that the Nation of Israel has nothing to do with Scripture (because God is through with the Jew, He cast them off when they crucified their Messiah), then they don't know their Bible. Jeremiah 31:35
God is not through with His chosen nation Israel. The Tribulation is primarily God dealing with the Nation of Israel, and you cannot run the Church into God's dealing with His Covenant people because we are not under any of these Covenants. Jeremiah 30:5,6
We know that several of those Middle Eastern nations have nuclear war heads. Some feel Israel alone has over 200. Jeremiah 30:7
Israel. So this seven year period is primarily the time of Israel's trouble. Never lose sight of the fact that all through Scripture God has always had His remnant of believers.

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