TonyChanYT
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There are at least three interpretations.
- The word "all" could be a hyperbole.
- The phrase "all Israel" means all Jews who are alive at some point in the future will be saved.
- The word "Israel" means Jewish and Gentile believers.
God had not rejected all the Israelites. The Israelites were the original olive tree that God had planted and cultivated. Some branches were broken off due to their rejecting God.1 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew.
There was a remnant of Israelites remaining in the olive tree. They had not been broken off.5 So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
Gentiles were branches cut from a wild olive tree.24 For if you [Roman Gentiles] were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree,
God grafted the wild olive tree branches into his cultivated original olive tree.and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree,
In the future, the broken Jewish branches will be grafted back in.how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.
All Israel includes26 And in this way all Israel will be saved.
- the remnant branch that was never broken off,
- the Gentile branches that were grafted in, and
- the broken-off Jewish branches that will be grafted back in.