Grafting Olive Trees In Israel
Israel will always be the apple of god s eyes.
Grafting olive trees in israel. Grafting olive trees. The gentiles represented by the wild olive tree in romans 11 have been grafted into the cultivated olive root. You gentiles are like the branch of a wild olive tree that is broken off and then contrary to nature is joined to a cultivated olive tree. Holman christian standard bible.
In one vital place a mystery is described as an olive tree. The natural branches israel were broken off and the wild branches gentiles were grafted in verse 17. The gentiles then have been made partakers of the promises and inherit the blessings of god s salvation. But the apostle paul speaks of a different method.
It is important to understand how god called israel to be his people and how they failed to fulfill that calling. Understanding the term grafted in some of the olive trees in israel are 2000 years old and some may be even older meaning that they were growing when jesus was there. In romans 11 11 24 paul compares israel to the natural branches of a cultivated olive tree and the gentile believers to the branches of a wild olive tree. A graft of a cultivated olive tree is inserted into the stem of the wild olive tree and then the wild olive tree is cut down close to the ground.
God has preserved the holy root of israel and pruned off the worthless branches. We are grafted in to the olive tree the word of god is very clear on this we are grafted in to israel. Others grafted in are gentile. Those can also be joined with an almond tree since it is from the same family.
As a wild olive tree their root was weak. And it will be much easier for god to join these broken off branches to their own tree again. Grafting into the olive tree wild olives rom11. Different varieties of apples such as honeycrisp and gala or apples and crabapples can be grafted together.
Native branches are jewish. Grafting methods small trees are grafted by budding in which a small bud is removed from a desirable olive tree and slipped into the bark on a small seedling. 22 the grafting in of wild olive branches into the cultivated tree well illustrates this uniting of the two peoples in god s new nation. Israel is the root of the tree and this is to say faith in god is the body of the entire tree.
The jews are like this cultivated tree. The part below becomes both root and feeder for the grafted branch. Right now they are set aside because of their unbelief. For example trees within the prune family such as peaches nectarines and plums can be grafted together.
This is the customary process of grafting.