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Irrevocable

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For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. (Romans 11:29)

A precise futurist reading of Romans 11 proves too much. Egypt and Assyria (recall their repentance in the time of Jonah) are also objects of God’s calling:

In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear by Yahweh of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction. In that day there will be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border. And it will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of the oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One, and He will deliver them.

Then Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day, and will make sacrifice and offering; yes, they will make a vow to Yahweh and perform it. And Yahweh will strike Egypt, He will strike and heal it; they will return to Yahweh, and He will be entreated by them and heal them. In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing in the midst of the land, whom Yahweh of hosts shall bless, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.” (Isaiah 19)

So too Ammon, Moab, and Elam:

“Yet I will bring back the captives of Moab in the latter days,” says Yahweh. . . .
“But afterward I will bring back the captives of the people of Ammon,” says Yahweh. . . .
“But it shall come to pass in the latter days: I will bring back the captives of Elam,” says Yahweh. (Jeremiah 48-49)

Of course, I do believe that all nations will be brought into the kingdom.

Indeed He says,
‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob,
And to restore the preserved ones of Israel;
I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles,
That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’ (Isaiah 49)

Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there).
And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. (Revelation 21)

But it is ridiculous to claim that they will be brought into the kingdom in some ossified form that was frozen two to three millennia ago.

Written by Scott Moonen

March 28, 2026 at 8:58 am

Posted in Biblical Theology

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