Nanja
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Amen ! Also Reconciliation and Salvation are seen to be the same when we consider what it says in Rom 11, observe first Rom 11:11
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Here Paul writes that through national israels fall, Salvation is come to the Gentiles !
Then in Vs 15 Rom 11:15
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Here Paul says that their casting away, which is the same as their fall in Vs 11 results in the reconciling of the World or Gentiles !
The reconciling here is the same as the Salvation in Vs 11 !
The word reconciling in Vs 15 is the greek word katallagé and literally means:
restoration to favor,reconciliation (restoration) as the resulting of Christ exactly (precisely) exchanging His righteousness (blood) for our guilt.
Thats Salvation to be put in favor with God and covered with Christ's Righteousness in exchange for Him taking their guilt and sin punishment ! Thats Salvation !
Amen! That's an excellent example! And the World that God reconciled to Himself 2 Cor. 5:19 was comprised of Israel,
the Spiritual Seed of Abraham Gen. 17:5; Gal. 3:16, the only People Christ died for Rom. 5:10, that were promised Salvation, Is. 45:17!
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