Messianic Judaism: End-times conversion of Israel?

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas' <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/messianic-judaism-8-end-time-conversion-of-israel/">website</a>.</p><p>Main ideas:</p><ul><li>In Rom 11:25, <i>plērōma</i> means fullness, not "full number." (The identical term appears in 13:10 and 15:29. Also John 1:16; 1 Cor 10:26; Gal 4:4; etc.)</li><li>Rom 9:6: Ancestry doesn't count; "Israel" = children of faith, not Abraham's physical descendants.</li><li>"<i>All</i> Israel" refers to true Israel—those who by faith are the sons and daughters of Abraham.</li><li>"Remnant" (11:5) implies a minority, just as during O.T. times.</li><li>Rom 9-11 answers the question of why most Jews failed to embrace Jesus as the Messiah. Predicting events two millennia later would not have addressed this question at all!</li><li>The "resurrection" of Ezek 37 pertains to the return from exile (6th C. BC), with overtones of Rev 21-22. It does <i>not</i> refer to the founding of the modern State of Israel (1948).</li><li>Large-scale "end-times" acceptance of fleshly Israel would be manifestly unfair to generations past.</li><li>Thus there is no true scriptural basis for an end-times mass conversion of modern-day Jews.</li></ul>