Romans 11 - Introduction

Romans CHAPTER 11

OUTLINE AND COMMENTARY-MARK DUNAGAN

I. OUTLINE OF CHAPTER 11:

I. God's faithfulness to His people: Romans 11:1-6

II. The Stumbling of the Bulk of Israel: Romans 11:7-10

III. The Jewish Stumbling and Gentile Connection: Romans 11:11-32

A. Gentile blessing an incentive to the Jew: Romans 11:11-16

B. Words of warning against Gentile conceit: Romans 11:17-24

C. The hardening and blessing of Israel: Romans 11:25-32

IV.. hymn of praise of God: Romans 11:33-36

II. THIS SECTION OF SCRIPTURE AND PREMILLENNIALISM:"There is. large element of the religious world which believes that God must bring the Jew to Christ on. national scale in order to be faithful to his promises to Abraham."

This is how the Premillennialist views Romans Chapter s 9-11. They say that God in the future is going to bring. whole generation of Jews to faith in Christ (against their will?) claiming that Romans 11:26 teaches this. In this way they believe Paul solves the problem of millions of Jews in his day being outside of Christ. Millions of Jews who hadn't received the blessings and promises of God."Some people talk as if the conversion of. generation of Jews in the future would wipe out the non-conversion of. hundred generations. If God did indeed make oath-bound promises to 101 generations we can hardly call him faithful if he forsakes 100 generations. Picture two generations of Jews at judgement. Both of them had unconditional and oath-bound promises made to them by God (what Premill. claims) One goes off to glory and other goes off to perdition. We claim: 'He had to bring this generation of Jews to glory, because, after all, he had to be faithful to his oath-bound and unconditional promises. And why then is he not bound to bring the other generation to glory?"

Here is what we need to make up our minds about: Either God gave unconditional promises to every Jew, or conditional promises to every Jew, i.e. obtaining the blessing of salvation was conditioned upon an obedient faith in God. (Romans 1:16; Romans 5:1; Romans 11:20)