The Gentile nations
are the peoples
outside of Israel.
In thee shall all families
of the earth be blessed.
Blindness in part is happened to Israel,
until the fulness of the Gentiles
be come in.
The Gentile nations are the peoples who are not of Israel the people. From the call of Abraham the Lord set Israel apart, yet He promised that in Abraham all the families of the earth would be blessed. The gospel goes to the nations. The church is made of Jew and Gentile who believe in Jesus. A partial blindness has come upon Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles comes in. Then the Deliverer shall come out of Sion and turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
In thee shall all families
of the earth be blessed.
Blindness in part is happened to Israel,
until the fulness of the Gentiles
be come in.
And so all Israel shall be saved.
- Genesis 12:3 promises blessing to all families of the earth through Abraham.
- The nations are distinct from Israel, yet included in the promise of blessing.
- Romans 11:25 speaks of the fulness of the Gentiles.
- Ephesians 2 describes the Gentiles who were afar off being made nigh by the blood of Christ.
- The church does not cancel the gifts and calling of God to Israel.
- The nations will come to the light of the Lord in the future kingdom.
- The Peoples – The nations outside of Israel.
- The Promise – All families of the earth blessed in Abraham.
- The Gospel – To the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
- The Church – Jew and Gentile one in Christ.
- The Fulness – Until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
- The Future – The nations blessed and Israel saved.
- Genesis 12:3 – “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
- Genesis 22:18 – “And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.”
- Romans 1:16 – “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
- Romans 11:25 – “Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”
- Romans 11:11-12 – “Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.”
- Ephesians 2:11-13 – “Ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh… at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel… But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
- Ephesians 2:14-16 – “For he is our peace, who hath made both one… that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross.”
- Galatians 3:8, 14 – “And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham… That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.”
- Isaiah 60:1-3 – “Arise, shine; for thy light is come… And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.”
- Matthew 28:19 – “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”
- Luke 2:32 – “A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.”
- Psalm 22:27 – “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.”
In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
To the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
The Gentile nations are the peoples outside of Israel. In Abraham all families of the earth are blessed. The gospel goes to the nations, and the fulness of the Gentiles will come in.
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