Will the Jews be Saved Just Before the Return of Christ?

A widespread belief holds that just before Christ returns, all the Jews then living on earth will be saved, an idea usually drawn from Romans 11:26, "And all Israel will be saved." This book argues that the reading is mistaken. It traces the idea to pseudepigraphal literature, from which it was taken up in the Premillennial eschatology of some early Fathers, later carried inadvertently into the Amillennial eschatology of some of the later Fathers, and continued by certain medieval theologians.

Through a thorough grammatical and historical exegesis of Romans 11:26, together with a contextual analysis of Romans 9 through 11, the author shows that "all Israel" refers not to a future group of Jews but to all the Jews who have been saved since the days of Abraham. On this reading, a future mass conversion of the Jews is not required for the return of Christ.