It was Paul who said in Romans 11:25-26,
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
The Jews, like Rachel's womb, were hardened and closed, but Christ didn't forget them, just like he didn't forget Rachel, in fact, Genesis 30:22 tells us,
Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and opened her womb.
And she bore children. Just as Israel will one day again bear children of the covenant and be saved like the children of Leah. Christ is in the story as the husband and father of both believing Jew and believing gentile, and like Jacob, he loves each and every one of his children. Now this is grace.
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