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NASB | Revelation 13:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 13:8 All the inhabitants of the earth will fall down and worship him, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world in the Book of Life of the Lamb who has been slain [as a willing sacrifice]. |
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Bible Note: "1) How would my understanding of Rom. 11 negate Rom. 9, when Romans 11 specifically states that those who were hardened can be grafted in again?" Romans 11 deals with collectives of people, and speaks of partial hardening of groups (I think the text supports the view that "branches" are not individual human beings). Romans 9 speaks much more precisely about individual destiny (where "vessels" do speak of individuals. And we have two distinct categories of individuals: a) the ones from among both Jews and Gentiles on whom God has mercy, who are molded and prepared beforehand for honorable use and for glory, to whom God will make known the riches of his glory b) the ones from among both Jews and Gentiles whom God hardens, who are molded and prepared beforehand for common use and for destruction, whom God patiently endures for the time being and on whom God will demonstrate his power and wrath Romans 9-11 answers the big question: What about God's covenant promises to the Jews? If salvation is for the Jew first and also for the Greek, why were so many more Greeks being saved and the majority of the physical descendents of Abraham rejecting their Messiah to their own destruction. Romans 9 is addressing the first part of Paul's answer: all of those physically descended from Israel are not "childen of the promise." Romans 11 concludes the argument by addressing the direct hypothetical charge that God has rejected his people wholesale. Paul uses himself as an example of the falsehood of such a statement, and then employs the example of those who had not bowed the knee to Baal in Elijah's day (showing that even in the OT God preserved only a remnant of the covenant people), and then goes on to say: "In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice." --Romans 11:5 The remnant is the group of those who are Abraham's children according to the flesh and according to the promise. By their own design? No, but rather "according to God's gracious choice." The Holy Spirit then says: "What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened" Again, two groups: the chosen remnant who obtained Christ's righteousness, and the rest who were hardened, according to God's choice. Then we get to the partial hardening and the cutting off and the grafting in of the branches, which do not refer to individual Jews and Gentiles (since a single unbelieving Jew was not born attached to the root). From our human temporal standpoint, the masses among Abraham's descendants who embrace Jesus the Messiah will be grafted in again collectively. "And so all Israel will be saved." --Joe! |