The Melting Pot is the Plan

Romans 11:25-32

God’s melting pot is like this; at one time the Gentiles were considered living in disobedience to God for not living by the law of the Old Testament. When Jesus Christ came, they received mercy from God because the Jews didn’t want Him. Now, the Jewish people are the disobedient ones for their rejection of Jesus. The Jews will have to obtain their mercy in the same way that the Christians receive theirs, through Jesus Christ. God has worked it out that everyone is living in disobedience, and His mercy comes to everyone through Jesus Christ. No one is left out. All are disobedient and, in that way, all are saved through Jesus Christ.

An important group of Israel’s people refuse to believe that Jesus Christ is the Savior talked about in the Old Testament. Because they reject their Savior, Jesus turned to the non-Jews, like me. When I, and other non-Jews, accept Jesus as Savior I become adopted into God’s family. The longer the Jew’s resistance to Jesus lasted, the more time there was for the non-Jews to establish themselves. The number of Christians grew and grew and grew worldwide.

Now, Christians are established worldwide, and they have their own Bible, their own churches, and their own worship services. Their fullness has come, the full number of “Gentiles” has come. Now all Jews can be saved, the hardened ones can come to Christ because Christianity is now fully established. Now is the time for all the Jews to accept that the way to God is through Jesus Christ. That is the contract God made with them in the Old Testament concerning the promise of sending them a Deliverer, their Savior. It’s just a matter of them accepting that Jesus Christ is the Deliverer promised to them. Through Christ, God washes away their sins and their hardened stony hearts are softened as they turn to Jesus. That is the promise.

An important group of Israel’s people were enemies to God, so Jesus Christ befriended the Gentiles, the non-Jews, now known as Christians. At the same time, the Jews are the ones whom the promise of the coming Deliverer is made, and the forefathers of Christianity belongs to Israel, such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The gifts and call of God will not be taken back, that is true for the Salvation given to Christians and the covenant made with Israel. That means Israel’s hardness is not an eternal sentence. They are fully capable of recognizing Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of the promise that God made to them.

“I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, 
brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: 
Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, 
and in this way all Israel will be saved. 
As it is written:
“The deliverer will come from Zion; He will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake;
but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 
for God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable. 
Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy
as a result of their disobedience, so they too have now become disobedient in order that
they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. 
For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that
He may have mercy on them all.”
Romans 11:25-32

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11