This is simple, but it is also why those who try to replace Israel with the Church make their biggest mistake.
They are not ALL ISRAEL which are OF ISRAEL only means that to be a descendant of Abraham, you must live BY FAITH. Not all Jewish people will be of Abraham so to speak, but that has NOTHING TO DO with Israel proper as a nation. That is speaking of who is of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, and only those that live by Faith are of Israel. But you still have Gentiles and Jews. Paul said that Israel, WHEN THEY BELIEVED AGAIN, would be grafted back in !!
Galatians 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Romans 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
Grafted back into the Family of God, but they are still ISRAEL PROPER, and are not Gentiles. Paul was only saying that to be of Abraham/Jacob/Israel, you had to be living by FAITH, thus Israel as a nation was not of Abraham, because there are not living by Faith, but chose the Law over the Promised Seed which was Jesus Christ. They are still Israel, and God deals with them separately from the Church, which is of Abraham because THEY/WE Believe. Israel is not of Faithful Abraham even though they are his seed by the Flesh, they are not his seed in the FAITH. They will be grafted back in (All Israel will be Saved) when Israel as a Nation accepts Jesus Christ as their Messiah, but this will not happen until the Church has been Raptured, or times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Then Jacobs trouble will come forth, and Israel will repent.
They are not ALL ISRAEL which are OF ISRAEL only means that to be a descendant of Abraham, you must live BY FAITH. Not all Jewish people will be of Abraham so to speak, but that has NOTHING TO DO with Israel proper as a nation. That is speaking of who is of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, and only those that live by Faith are of Israel. But you still have Gentiles and Jews. Paul said that Israel, WHEN THEY BELIEVED AGAIN, would be grafted back in !!
Galatians 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Romans 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
Grafted back into the Family of God, but they are still ISRAEL PROPER, and are not Gentiles. Paul was only saying that to be of Abraham/Jacob/Israel, you had to be living by FAITH, thus Israel as a nation was not of Abraham, because there are not living by Faith, but chose the Law over the Promised Seed which was Jesus Christ. They are still Israel, and God deals with them separately from the Church, which is of Abraham because THEY/WE Believe. Israel is not of Faithful Abraham even though they are his seed by the Flesh, they are not his seed in the FAITH. They will be grafted back in (All Israel will be Saved) when Israel as a Nation accepts Jesus Christ as their Messiah, but this will not happen until the Church has been Raptured, or times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Then Jacobs trouble will come forth, and Israel will repent.