Chapter Five: Premillennialism (18): Reformed critique of the premillennial explanation of Romans 11 (2)
David Engelsma critiques the dispensational premillennial interpretation of Romans 11:25-26, arguing that the word "until" does not support the doctrine of a future mass conversion of Jews, but rather describes the duration of Jewish blindness throughout the current age until Christ's return. This article defends the Reformed amillennial understanding of Israel's election and God's purposes in redemptive history against a popular eschatological error.
Previous article in this series: February 15, 2018, p. 228. "…blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." Romans 11:25, 26 The error concerning "until" The error of dispensational premillennialism regarding the text of Scripture itself, in Romans 11, is twofold. First, the premillennialists assume, falsely,...
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