Author	Thread: The Olive Tree In Romans 11
Admin	The Olive Tree In Romans 11 Posted : 10 May, 2012 07:20 AM The Olive Tree In Romans 11 The root of the olive tree in Romans 11 has to be Jesus Christ, for if it were "All Israel" of the old covenant, there would be no transformation and no re-making of Israel as shown in the parable of the potter in Jeremiah 18: 1-6. Isaiah 29: 16 says "Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?" Here Isaiah is pointing to Jeremiah 18: 1-6, and also back to II Kings 21: 13, "And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down." This is not talking about the city of Jerusalem to be literally turned upside down. Its talking about the coming transformation of physical Israel, fixated in the physical, in the physical seed from Abraham, in physical circumcision of the flesh, in a physical temple building and on and on with the shadows which point to the substance and spiritual reality which were fulflled in Christ. Those reborn in him, regardless of their physical descent, became Israel reborn in Him. Former Gentiles who join transformed Israel are grafted into Christ and into the Remnant of Israel, that small group of physical Israel who accepted Christ Paul mentions in Romans 11: 5. Romans 11: 17 says "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;" In Romans 11: 5 Paul says "Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace." He is talking about salvation, and the good olive tree which the Remnant of Israel becomes a part of - physical Israelites becoming the "natural branches" and former Gentiles being grafted into those natural branches - so that this olive tree must represent the source of salvation. Jesus Christ is the only source of salvation, and since he said "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Matthew 15: 24, then Israel transformed and reborn in Christ holds the identity of the saved, who are the Israel of God (Galatians 6: 16). In Luke 13: 6-9, a parable of physical Israel in apostasy as the fig tree, " a certain man," the owner of the vineyard, God the Father, in verse 7 told the "dresser of the vineyard", who is Christ, to cut the fig tree down. But Christ said to the Father," Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it. And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down." Christ himself, the "dresser," came out of eternity to earth to redeem the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Matthew 15: 24). He pared down Israel first to himself alone, then as his few disciples, then the three thousand on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2: 41), and the entire Remnant of Israel of Romans 11: 5. Gentiles are not grafted into the Remnant of Israel reborn in Christ as another body of Christ, the "church." They become part of the Israel of God (Galatians 6: 16). They are not grafted into the religion of the Pharisees or into Talmudic Judaism, for there is no salvation in either. Post Reply
View Profile History	The Olive Tree In Romans 11 Posted : 10 May, 2012 01:43 PM I love how you explained these verses here...:o)...xo In Luke 13: 6-9, a parable of physical Israel in apostasy as the fig tree, " a certain man," the owner of the vineyard, God the Father, in verse 7 told the "dresser of the vineyard", who is Christ, to cut the fig tree down. But Christ said to the Father," Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it. And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down." Post Reply