All Israel shall be saved

 All Israel shall be saved

By Richard P. Joseph

Romans 11:26a

and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written:...

Romans 11:26 is one of the most misguided and misinterpreted  scriptures in the bible.   Because of massive Zionist influence in our bible schools and because of the practice of pulling bible verses out of original context, we now have most pastors teaching that this verse means that all of physical Israel will be saved.  Of course, nobody would ever complain about modern day “Jews” being saved, but to take scripture out of context really does have consequences.  It will be difficult to explain the whole of this subject in this short article but as always, keep reading scripture and use these articles to prompt you in your search.  I will give you a few clues but please read Romans again and pay attention.  I simply cannot understand how anyone ever got the idea that all physical Jews will someday become Christians, by reading Romans, especially if they ever read any other part of the New Testament.  So who really is “All Israel”?

The problem with pulling single verses out of context, you will have an incredibly high chance of misinterpretation.  Reading through the book of Romans you cannot possibly miss the idea that Paul, who is using a lot of expensive ink and parchment, to explain and that is that;

Romans 9      6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; 7 nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s [d]descendants, but: “[e]through Isaac your [f]descendants shall be named.”

The entire book is about explaining this one verse.  The entire letter is all about changing from the law to the grace of Jesus Christ.  

Romans 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the [h]Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

But like I always say, this isn’t new with Paul, it is all throughout the New Testament.  

John 1     12 But [m]as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who [n]believe in His name, 13 who were [o]born, not of [p]blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a man, but of God.

John the Baptist said the same thing:

Matthew 3      7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for [g]baptism, he said to them, “You [h]offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance; 9 and do not assume that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’; for I tell you that God is able, from these stones, to raise up children for Abraham. 10 And the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore, every tree that does not bear good fruit is being cut down and thrown into the fire.

As you can clearly see, the apostle John and John the Baptist explain this same doctrine showing a movement from Judaism to grace or from physical to spiritual.  The true seed of Abraham was Jesus and true Jews are those that understood that faith is the avenue to God, not the law. 

Romans 2  28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from people, but from God.

Paul goes on and on describing what a true Jew is, so to make it easier I will give you an equation as a guide.  

Believing Jews + Believing Gentiles = True Israel

So when Paul says that “All Israel shall be saved”, he is talking about all true believers, both Jew and Gentile.  The whole point of his book, and all of his other letters, is to drive home this point which he called the mystery that has been hidden until now (meaning in his day).  The mystery, meaning that the redemption of all people has occurred.  God is the God of all people, it is not a Jewish religion.  The Jews were tasked with keeping the oracles of God until the mystery was revealed and the world was redeemed.  That all was finished with the coming of the messiah.  That is why Jesus claimed on the cross that “It is completed”.  The transition occurred from AD30-70 and all Israel was and is saved.

Romans 16   25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past, 26 but now has been disclosed, and through the Scriptures of the prophets, in accordance with the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith; 27 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.

The Third Temple

 The Third Temple

By Richard P. Joseph

In the 10th century Before Christ, Solomon built the first temple.  It was built with elegance and opulence and was considered one of the wonders of the ancient world.  Israel was in its hey-day when riches flowed and silver was as common as stones.  It was the highpoint of Israel’s greatness.  It didn’t last long as you can guess.  Sin and idol worship soon replaced the worship of YHVH.  

Once idol worship became the norm in Israel, God did what he promised to do in Deuteronomy, and punished his people.  He sent in the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, who completely destroyed the temple, slaughtered the people, and carried many off into captivity.  After 70 years they were brought back and a second temple, though much inferior to the first temple, was built.  When Herod the Great became (vassal to Caesar)king over Israel, he greatly improved the temple and made it a magnificent building once again.  Jesus was born during the time of Herod’s (second) temple.  

The funny thing about all of this, is that during the Babylonian captivity, the prophet Ezekiel was given a vision of a new temple in “the land of Israel”.  Oddly, he never mentions Jerusalem.  And in this city was a marvelous temple built.  The weird thing about all of this is that, when the second temple was built soon after, it was not the temple that Ezekiel described.  Also, nowhere does Ezekiel even tell anyone to build it, he just describes a glorious temple somewhere in the land of Israel but never instructs anyone to build it.  Every detail of the temple and the city and the people are described but nothing like that ever physically happened.  So where is that temple or when will it be built?

Well, if you listen to any futurist pastor who is thoroughly indoctrinated in zionist propaganda, they will tell you that the chosen people (modern day rabbinical Jews living in Israel) will soon build that temple which will usher in the end times scenario.  However, if you ask someone who understands the bible in its true context, they will tell you that this is clearly a spiritual temple.  In fact in Ezekiel 48:35 he says that the name of that new city is  “The Lord Is Here”.  

Revelation 22:3  3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.

That is the same thing that John  said in Revelation when describing that same temple.  John’s vision was the fulfilment of Ezekiel’s vision.  Just read Revelation 21-22 and compare it with Ezekiel 40-47.  

Ezekiel caps his vision off by describing a small stream coming out of the threshold of the temple and flowing eastward.  This stream begins to swell and grow deeper as it goes, eventually becoming a small river, and then a mighty river.  That doesn’t sound like a physical place, it sounds to me like a spiritual movement sort of like when Jesus told his apostles to go and make disciples of all nations starting in Jerusalem then to Samaria and to Galilee and then to the ends of the earth.  It sort of sounds to me like what exactly happened when Jesus came and became the fulfilment of the old law and established the new covenant in his blood, but do take my word for it, let’s see what Jesus himself said.

John 2:19-20

19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

20 Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

Today we hear of mentally deranged people identifying as the opposite sex or as an animal or some other weird thing.  Jesus did something like that too!  Jesus identified as a temple!  He told the Jews that they would destroy that temple and in three days he would raise it up again.  He did raise it up and it became Ezekiel’s third temple complete with a stream flowing out of it and it became a river that I swim in daily.  What goes around comes around and just as the Jewish priests couldn’t understand this metaphor, we still have today most of the pastors of this earth still not getting it.  They are waiting for modern rabbinical Jews to build that third temple.  Nothing has changed for those that are spiritually blind.  Jesus is the Third Temple.  Nothing else needs to be built and we don’t have to wait.  The light of God fills the temple and the Lamb is the Lamp. 

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