ROMANS--GRAFTING ON NEW BRANCHES

BREAKING OFF A BRANCH AND GRAFTING NEW BRANCHES

IN THE YEAR 58AD, THE APOSTLE PAUL WROTE ROMANS 11:

11. I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy

12. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

Israel's stumbling brought about the "breaking 

off  of some of the branches, and some wild olive 

branches grafted in.

ROMANS 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, art ingrafted among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;

The "wild olive-branches" are the gentile believers or the Christian Church.

At Jesus Christ's trial, the Jews cried out, "His blood be on us and on our children,..." (Matt. 27:25). 

Less than 30 years, again, Jerusalem was destroyed and the Temple was utterly destroyed.  This time Israel ceased to exist as a nation. This time, for close to 2,000 years the Jewish people have indeed suffered, but amazingly, this people still existed as a people without a nation.  Few peoples have had enemy's with such determination to destroy them, within only few years, killing close to 7,000,000 victims, and yet they continued to exist. Not  only existing, but becoming  a  sovereign  nation.    Only during the generation of the mid-20th Century (1948) have they become a nation, and Jerusalem's recognition as the Jewish capitol, within the beginning of the 21st Century.(2017)  The Temple is yet to be rebuilt