“and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.” (Rom. 11:25–27) Here is the divine order in redemptive history: natural branches on the cultivated olive tree; natural branches broken off because of unbelief; wild branches grafted in, contrary to nature; the natural branches yet to be re-grafted into the olive tree. Israel stumbled at the rock of offense—Christ—but not that she should forever fall (Rom. 11:11). When Paul says, “All Israel will be saved,” he obviously cannot mean
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