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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 333, 29 November 2025 - 7th Day of Advent   
      
   1) Romans 11, Romans 12, Romans 13   
      
   Romans 11   
      
   The Remnant of Israel   
      
   1 (1Sa 12:22; 2Co 11:22) I say then, has God rejected His people?   
   God forbid! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,   
   of the tribe of Benjamin.   
   2 (1Pe 1:2) God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew.   
   Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah?   
   How he pleads with God against Israel, saying,   
   3 "Lord, they have killed Your prophets and destroyed Your altars.   
   I alone am left, and they seek my life"?(1Ki 19:10. 41Ki 19:18)   
   But what is the divine reply to him?   
   "I have kept for Myself seven thousand men,   
   who have not bowed the knee to Baal."(1Ki 19:18. 5Ro 9:27)   
   So then at this present time there is a remnant according   
   to the election of grace.   
   6 And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; otherwise grace   
   would no longer be grace. But if it is by works, then is it no longer   
   by grace; otherwise work would no longer be work.   
   7 (Ro 9:18; 2Co 3:14) What then? Israel has not obtained what it was   
   seeking. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened.   
   8 (Dt 29:4; Isa 29:10) As it is written:   
   "God has given them a spirit of slumber,   
   eyes that would not see   
   and ears that would not hear,   
   to this very day."(Isa 29:10.)   
   9 (Ps 69:22-23) And David says:   
   "Let their table become a snare and a trap,   
   a stumbling block and a retribution to them.   
   10 (Ps 69:23) Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see,   
   and always bow down their backs." (Ps 69:22-23.)   
      
   [1] I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an   
   Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.   
   [2] God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the   
   scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel,   
   saying,   
   [3] Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I   
   am left alone, and they seek my life.   
   [4] 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.   
   [5] 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.   
   [7] What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the   
   election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded   
   [8] (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber,   
   eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto   
   this day.   
   [9] And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a   
   stumbling block, and a recompence unto them:   
   [10] Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their   
   back alway.   
      
   The Salvation of the Gentiles   
      
   11 (Ro 10:19; 11:14) I say then, have they stumbled that   
   they should fall? God forbid! But through their transgression salvation   
   has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.   
   12 (Ro 11:25) Now if their transgression means riches for the world,   
   and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will   
   their fullness mean?   
   13 (Ac 9:15) For I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am   
   the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,   
   14 (1Co 7:16; Ro 9:3; 1Ti 4:16) if somehow I may make my kinsmen   
   jealous and may save some of them.   
   15 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world,   
   what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?   
   16 (Eze 44:30; Lev 23:10) If the first portion of the dough is holy,   
   the batch is also holy. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.   
   17 (Jer 11:16; Eph 2:11-13) But if some of the branches were broken   
   off, and you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them   
   and became a partaker with them of the root   
   and richness of the olive tree,   
   18 do not boast against the branches. If you boast,   
   remember you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.   
   19 You will say then, "The branches were broken off, so that I might   
   be grafted in."   
   20 (Ro 12:16; 1Co 10:12) This is correct. They were broken off   
   because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant,   
   but fear.   
   21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will   
   He spare you.   
   22 (Jn 15:2; 1Co 15:2) Therefore consider the goodness and severity   
   of God-severity toward those who fell, but goodness toward you,   
   if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.   
   23 (2Co 3:16) And these also, if they do not remain in unbelief, will   
   be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.   
   24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature,   
   and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree,   
   how much more will these, who are the natural branches, be grafted   
   into their own olive tree?   
      
   [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.   
   [12] Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing   
   of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?   
   [13] For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the   
   Gentiles, I magnify mine office:   
   [14] If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and   
   might save some of them.   
   [15] For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what   
   shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?   
   [16] For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root   
   be holy, so are the branches.   
   [17] And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive   
   tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and   
   fatness of the olive tree;   
   [18] Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the   
   root, but the root thee.   
   [19] Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be   
   graffed in.   
   [20] Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by   
   faith. Be not highminded, but fear:   
   [21] For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also   
   spare not thee.   
   [22] Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell,   
   severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness:   
   otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.   
   [23] And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed   
   in: for God is able to graff them in again.   
   [24] For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and   
   wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall   
   these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?   
      
   The Restoration of Israel   
      
      
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