Jealousy of Israel

It is frequently said that people of Israel will repent when they see that the gospel has gone to the gentiles and they have been blessed by it.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

The gospel we generally think has passed through Europe and America to reach Korea and other Asian countries. We can now guess that the Israelites may understand what the blessing by the gospel is and they may repent. But they still stick to their own Judaism.

If so, they have not yet been fully jealous. When the gentiles are blessed of God not by the law but by the true gospel, the Israel will be exceedingly jealous. The people of Israel will then repent and come to God.

[Romans 11:11-12] 11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

by Chung DuckYoung, pastor