Today, I am reading and commenting on  Romans 11-14.

Today’s passage starts out with Paul warning Christians against holding animosity towards Jews, with feeling superior to Jews.  Paul describes how God grafted us into His family while cutting off those Jews who refused to put their faith in Christ.  He then makes the point that we were grafted onto the olive tree which is God’s family through no merit of our own, which means that we can be cut off just as easily if we make ourselves a barrier to others being added.  In many ways, his argument against anti-Jewish sentiment is really just a specific case of Paul’s point that our salvation does not make us better than anyone else.  Paul completes this by prophesying that at some point all Jews will come to know the Lord.  Although when he says that “all Israel will be saved” he may mean that those who are not saved at that point are no longer Israel.  If this is indeed the case, I would suggest that when the day arrives that Paul’s prophecy is fulfilled, Jews who are not Christians will cease to be a distinct people.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.