Is God Finished with Israel?

²⁵ For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. ²⁶ And so all Israel will be saved, Romans 11  

For some Christians Israel isn’t on the map. Even worse, some Christians believe that Israel has been replaced. They claim that God is done with Israel. This is not what the Bible teaches.

For the past two thousand years “blindness in part has happened to Israel.” They don’t recognize Jesus as their Messiah nor do they turn to Him to wash away their sins.  Conversely, during this time many non-Jewish people have had their eyes opened, and are calling on Jesus as Savior and being saved.

However, as the text states we are not to be “ignorant of this mystery.” One day after all the “Gentiles” that are to be saved get saved, God will move on the Jewish people and “Israel will be saved.”  This was prophesied in Zechariah 12 “¹⁰ And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.”  That is, one day their eyes will be opened and they will recognize the Lord “whom they pierced” and they will “mourn.”  They will see Jesus, “the Lamb who was slain” and “mourn” but their mourning will lead to repentance. Their eyes will be opened, and hearts contrite, they’ll turn to Jesus and “so all Israel will be saved.”

So, for the record, God is not finished with Israel. Be not “wise in your own opinion” and think that God has forgotten the people He formed as a nation. We as gentile believers should have a place in our heart for Israel and a desire for the Jewish people to embrace Jesus as their Messiah.