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A visitor writes,
"will all Israel be saved in the judgement?"
Romans 11: 25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
Paul cannot mean that all Israelites will be saved, because it is clear elsewhere that many will be rejected at the judgment.
Matthew 8:12 "But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Luke 13:28 "There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.
In context, he is writing of the change which will take place when Christ returns and those of Israel who are alive at the time will recognise their Messiah and be restored to God’s favour.
Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
The current blindness of Israel will be ended, and the nation will be saved and restored to the promised land as described in Ezekiel 48.
This cannot mean that all Israel as individuals will be saved at the judgment.
The kingdom of God will be the restored kingdom of Israel with Christ ruling from Jerusalem.
Luke 1:32 "He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. 33 "And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end."
His jurisdiction will extend over the whole earth.
I hope you find this helpful.
God bless,
Glenn
