Romans 11 says they are cast out "due to unbelief and God is able to graft them BACK In AGAIN IF they do not continue in unbelief" - There is no such thing as going to heaven - still at war with God.
Paul says he is doing whatever he can so that "if by any means I might save some of them" Romans 11
Believers in Israel according to Rom 11
I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For
I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in
the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? 3 “Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” 4 But what is the divine response to him? “
I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5
In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to
God’s gracious choice. 6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace. 7 What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but
those who were chosen obtained it,
saints in OT Israel -
Heb 11
Now faith is the assurance of
things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the
men of old gained approval.
3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. 4 By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks. 5
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and
that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. 7 By faith Noah, being warned
by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and
became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
Saints in Israel
2 Tim 3
14 Y
ou, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned
them, 15 and that
from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Saints in Israel joined with saints among gentiles - into one group.
Rom 11
13 But I am
speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if somehow
I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them. 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will
their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16 If the first piece
of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.
17 But if
some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive,
were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree, 18 do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant,
remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root
supports you. 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” 20 Quite right,
they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; 21 for
if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either. 22 Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but
to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness;
otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 And they also,
if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to
graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural
branches be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26
and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,
