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Paul's discussion of the future of Israel assumes Jesus' predictions about the coming destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. This is what he's talking about when he talks about "vessels of wrath prepared for destruction" and when he quotes from Hosea and Isaiah in 9:25-29. In 9:27, the "remnant" does not refer to the Jews who have responded in faith to the gospel, but to the Jews who have survived God's judgment. Unless the Lord showed mercy, the Jews would have been as utterly destroyed as Sodom and Gomorrah (9:29). But they are not destroyed; God preserves a remnant of Israel through the judgment, who will be delivered from the catastrophe that awaits Jerusalem. These, perhaps, are the "all Israel" that shall be saved, just as the restoration community after the exile was "all Israel" preserved through exile and delivered from captivity.
posted by Peter J. Leithart on Wednesday, August 02, 2006 at 05:45 AM
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