‘I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. ‘
Romans 11:11
In Romans 11:11, the apostle Paul is clearly stating when salvation came to the Gentile world. Answer: When the nation of Israel fell.
So when did the nation of Israel fall? When they rejected their Messiah their promised King, when they cried out “crucify Him” (Mark 15:13,14), and let it be known that they will not have this Jesus of Nazareth rule over us (Luke 19:14). That was the beginning of their fall with last straw soon thereafter when they stoned Stephen in Acts 7 around 36 AD. But what did the nation of Israel’s fall bring about? The apostle Paul was chosen by God to be the apostle to the Gentiles with a new message of salvation by grace through faith alone in the finished work of the cross apart from the Mosaic law, circumcision, and temple worship.
Romans 11:11 (and all of Romans 11) establishes that salvation for the Gentile world occurred only after the fall of Israel and after God chose Paul as the apostle to the Gentiles. Which was sometime between 37 – 40 AD.
‘For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, ‘
Romans 11:13
Lastly, in Romans 11:32, Paul sums it all up in this amazing verse “For God has committed them all (the nation of Israel) to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all”
‘Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!’
Romans 11:33
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