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"All Israel" Shall Be
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A phrase appears in the Scriptures, that can confuse people and it has for years, including yours truly. The phrase I am speaking of can be found in Romans 9:6 and 11:26 and reads as follows: 'all Israel’ . . . . . . But if we look at the what the church calls the Old Testament, the same phrase may be seen 146 times. I must admit that I never really looked into the meaning behind these two verses found in the letter to the Romans. I had a false idea implanted in my brain over the years, that chapters 9, 10 and 11 of this long letter to the Romans, whoever they were, was written to the Jewish people living in Rome. Therefore I studied Romans 1-8; skipped 9, 10 and 11, then picked the letter back up beginning in chapter 12. Therefore, it wasn’t until I discovered just a few years back, that I had been totally deceived in my former understanding.
I found to my dismay, that this apostle was speaking to a group of individuals he referred to as gentiles. Sha'ul as he was known by the people of Israel, and known as Paul by the people of Greek / Roman ancestors, wrote the letter at a time when very few Jews were living in the city of Rome. The emperor Claudius had declared that all Jewish people were to leave the city of Rome, around 48 AD under the threat of death if they didn’t. This can be verified by what Luke had to say in Acts 18:1-8. Historians record that Claudius had a change of heart later, and reversed his former declaration by saying that the Jews could return. History however says that very few took advantage of his offer.
Acts 18:1-8 NASB
After these things he [Paul] left Athens, Greece and went to Corinth. (2) And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius (the Proconsul of Rome) had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them, (3) and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers. (4) And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade Jews and Greeks. (5) But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Yehshua was the Messiah. (6) But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles." (7) Then he left there (the synagogue) and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next to the synagogue. (8) Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized.I have placed a couple of maps in this paper to help in understanding the importance of not only knowing what the scriptures say but also knowing where this all took place. They represent the places Paul/Sha’ul traveled to on what is known as his third missionary journey approaching the time of his execution in Rome. He penned this letter to Rome, sometime around 56 AD, 14 or so years before Rome, under General Titus, attacked and destroyed Jerusalem along with the Temple in 70 AD
