Christ the Deliverer Is the Bridge of Understanding and Peace. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. God offers severity to the fallen but kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness to the fallen- for God has the power to graft them in again. For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will the natural branches, be grafted back into their own tree? I want you to understand this mystery, a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. Jesus is the “the Deliverer” (ton heruomenon) from God's wrath to come. The closest parallel in the NT to this word “Deliverer” is in Rom11:26, Vers26: “And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, ‘The Deliverer (ho heruomenos) will come from Zion [Jerusalem/heavenly Jerusalem], he will banish ungodliness from Jacob.” This Deliverer is Jesus Christ; the one who will save “all Israel,” and his salvation will be from “the wrath to come.” by “banishing ungodliness from the people,” “He will banish ungodliness from Jacob” from all Israel and will forgive their sins: “And this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.” Israel will be saved when Jesus Christ, the deliverer, comes from Zion and (1)takes away the ungodliness —that is, the hardening— from Israel and replaces it with faith [if they do not continue in their unbelief , they will be grafted in], and so their sins will be forgiven, they will be grafted into the tree of salvation and promise as one with the Gentiles who believe in Jesus. One Deliverer, Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Messiah of Israel, saves us both through faith alone in his finished work on the cross. The bridge from Christ to Israel is found in the hope that Israel trust their Christ.
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