Romans 11:25-26 says, “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.” 

This chapter deals mainly with the truth that the Lord has set aside the nation of Israel as a place of prominence and special blessings and has now focused more on the nations of the Gentiles.  Israel, as a nation, has been set aside because of their unbelief.  Speaking to both the Jews and Gentiles, we read in verses 20-21, “Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.”  What a stern warning!  Because Israel refused to believe and follow the Lord, they were broken off from the root.  This has not happened to all the Jewish people, but only to Israel as a nation.  Of course, this ‘breaking off’ is temporary for we read in Romans 11:1, “I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid…”  The Lord is warning the Gentiles that if they likewise fall into unbelief, they will also be broken off from the root.

The day will come, and possibly soon, that the natural branches (Israel) will be grafted back on as we read in Romans 11:25, “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”  What is the fulness of the Gentiles?  It describes that time when Israel is set aside and the Gentiles become the Lord’s focus.  When that time is completed…which happens at the rapture of the church, Israel will be grafted back in and become the main focus of the Lord once again. 

“And so all Israel shall be saved.”  Let’s compare this with what we read in Zechariah 13:8-9, “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, IT IS MY PEOPLE: AND THEY SHALL SAY, THE LORD IS MY GOD.” We also read in Romans 9:27, “Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, A REMNANT SHALL BE SAVED.” So when Paul the apostle says that all Israel shall be saved, he is referring to the believing remnant of Israel.  All the elect Jewish people alive at the end of the Tribulation period will be saved to enter the Lord’s millennial reign on the earth.  (CC)  (543.2)