Reading the Bible this evening, and I came upon these verses; when do you think this will occur, after the crisis in the Church or just before the Second Coming, or are they both the same thing?
Just curious, since I don't see this happening for a long time, yet I realize God can do anything in His perfect timing.
Roman 11 <<Now if the first handful of the dough is holy, so also is the lump of dough; and if the root is holy, so also are the branches . But if some of the branches have been broken off, and if thou, being a wild olive, art grafted in their place, and hast become a partaker of the stem and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if thou dost boast, still it is not thou that supportest the stem, but the stem thee, Thou wilt say, then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” True, but they were broken off because of unbelief, whereas thou by faith standest. Be not highminded, but fear. For if God has not spared the natural branches, perhaps He may not spare thee either. See, then, the goodness and the severity of God; His severity towards those who have fallen, but the goodness of God towards thee if thou abidest in His goodness; otherwise thou also wilt be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them back. For if thou hast been cut off from the wild olive tree which is natural to thee, and contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the cultivated olive tree, how much more shall these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
For I would not, brethren have you ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits, that a partial blindness only has befallen Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles should enter. And thus all Israel should be saved, as it is written, “There will come out of Sion the deliverer and he will turn away impiety from Jacob; and this is my covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins.”
In view of the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but in view of the divine choice, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the call of God are without repentance.
For as you also at one time did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy by reason of their unbelief, so they too have not now believed by reason of the mercy shown you, that they too may obtain mercy. For God has shut up all in unbelief, that he may have mercy upon all. >>>