"For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?" Dispensationalists make this as the nail to hang all their shabby goods that pass for their doctrine. First we shall look at the analogy St Paul has unhappily chosen but we can see what he is aiming at. He was unashamedly a Jew as having cut his teeth on Gamaliel's scholarly turn of mind but it was grace that shaped him as an apostle. What does he call the tree: a good olive tree which is another metaphor than true Vine,, meaning Jesus Christ. What is a natural man but flesh and blood. A natural man cannot receive wisdom from heaven since it is foolishness to him. He may be a good man as Socrates as but a pagan. So natural branch of a tree wild in nature. How did the vineyard of my beloved fare?
"What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?"(Isa.5.4) Everything possible was done to Israel but they gone bad, so much so God categorically tells Moses," for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way."(Exod.33.3) God pardoned Moses "And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word."(Num.14.20) For this reason God did not allow Moses to enter the Promised land for his own failure as well as on behalf of the people. God chose Moses even before he was born and His grace was evident and the Holy Spirit presents Moses and Elias at the mount of transfiguration:(Mt.17.3) Moses was all along as a sanctified one,- among the 144,000 on mount Sion."These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
"For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?" Dispensationalists make this as the nail to hang all their shabby goods that pass for their doctrine. First we shall look at the analogy St Paul has unhappily chosen but we can see what he is aiming at. He was unashamedly a Jew as having cut his teeth on Gamaliel's scholarly turn of mind but it was grace that shaped him as an apostle. What does he call the tree: a good olive tree which is another metaphor than true Vine,, meaning Jesus Christ. What is a natural man but flesh and blood. A natural man cannot receive wisdom from heaven since it is foolishness to him. He may be a good man as Socrates as but a pagan. So natural branch of a tree wild in nature. How did the vineyard of my beloved fare?
"What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?"(Isa.5.4) Everything possible was done to Israel but they gone bad, so much so God categorically tells Moses," for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way."(Exod.33.3) God pardoned Moses "And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word."(Num.14.20) For this reason God did not allow Moses to enter the Promised land for his own failure as well as on behalf of the people. God chose Moses even before he was born and His grace was evident and the Holy Spirit presents Moses and Elias at the mount of transfiguration:(Mt.17.3) Moses was all along as a sanctified one,- among the 144,000 on mount Sion."These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
"(Rev.14.1-4)
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