If some of the branches were broken off and you being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. If you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you (Romans 11:16-18).
My heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? How shall they hear without a preacher? How shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!” They have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report?” So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Have they not heard? Yes indeed: Their sound has gone out to all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” Did Israel not know? First Moses says: I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation. Isaiah is very bold and says: “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me. All day long I have stretched out My hands To a disobedient and contrary people (Romans 10:1-4, 14-21) Has God cast away His people? Certainly not! Paul also was an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin, yet He too was grafted in, as he went about killing them ignorantly. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! Through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation came to the Gentiles. If their fall is riches for the world and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! They are part of the tree already, and if they be cut off from it, can be grafted in just like the wild branches.
Here it is explained in more detail by: Fruit of the Vine Messianic
The Wild Branch
I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. If some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. If you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. If God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. They also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. If you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? For I do not desire brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. All Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.” Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all (Romans 11:1-2, 11-32). When we as ‘wild branches’ come together to join the original branches, let us humble ourselves lest we find ourselves cut off also.
The Original Branch
He came to His own and His own did not receive Him. As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:11-13). His ‘own’ were the Jews. They were the ones Jesus came to and they were His own. After they refused to believe that He was from The Father, He ministered to the Gentiles, who then had the right to be called children of God. Although some of the Jews believed Him and continue to do so today, we need to be careful as we are prone to diseases while we draw strength from the plant itself. Those who believed Jesus had a different experience than those who did not, as they witnessed His mighty miracles for themselves (Acts 2:22-24), giving glory to the Father who sent Him. The unbelievers asked for a sign and got none, except the sign of the prophet Jonah (Matthew 12:38-40). What now? Do we need to see a sign to believe also? Jesus said that we are blessed because although we did not see Him, yet we believe Him (John 20:29). Have faith in Him.
The Two Becoming One
Usually the tree is grafted into its own kind, but as Jesus stated we are not all original branches. If we as wild branches can be grafted in, they too will be grafted in as they are original branches. So I urge both Jews and none Jews to work together in unity and produce good fruits together, least we find ourselves making room for another branch. Paul, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness, gentleness, long-suffering, bearing with one another in love and attempt to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Ephesians 4:1-3). Are you grafted in? If not, why? God grant that we all be ‘grafted in’, before the return of His Son, The Christ.





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