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God sometimes treats the unrighteous or the rebellious in a way that matches their mistaken conception of him.

But his lord answered and said to him, “You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents.” (Matthew 25)

This is true of the rebellious generation in the wilderness.

Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt?” (Exodus 14)

All these men who have seen my glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded my voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected me see it. (Numbers 14)

The fact that Jesus died, was resurrected, and ascended in AD 30 is significant, because this establishes the time period between Jesus’s own exodus and the destruction of the temple in AD 70 as a 40-year period. This makes AD 70, which is the destruction of the old creation, the full entry into the new creation. This is the time of the release of the saints under the altar (Revelation 6); the time after which those are blessed “who die in the Lord from now on.” (Revelation 14)

Thus, the 40 years between AD 30 and AD 70 are a kind of wilderness wandering for the church. This is a time when the Gentiles, a kind of “mixed multitude,” are incorporated into the church.

And, crucially, this is the time when an unfaithful generation is left to die, while their children are brought into the new creation. Importantly, the fact that an entire generation dies under a covenantal curse does not imply that their children failed to enter into the promises.

Thus, apart from any historical data, from the Biblical record and typology alone it is quite reasonable to conclude that the prophecy of Romans 11 was fulfilled by the entry into the new creation, by AD 70.

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The deliverer will come out of Zion, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; ​​for this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.” (Romans 11)

And yet in fact there is historical evidence for this.