Romans 11.26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

Let's look closer at Romans 11 to see how this prophecy will be fulfilled. For Isaiah tells us that the Lord will yet choose Israel and the strangers shall be joined with them. . . .Paul explains how all Israel is saved.

Romans 11:1,7-26 Has God cast away His people? Certainly not!....What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it. . . .the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. Remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. Branches were broken off ...because of unbelief they were broke off and you stand by faith....continue in His goodness, otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in...and so all Israel will be saved.

Paul likens the remnant in Israel to a noble olive tree, some of whose branches have been broken off. He compares the Gentiles to branches from a wild olive tree, grafted into the parent stock. Through unbelief and the rejection of Heaven's purpose for her, literal Israel as a nation had lost her connection with God. However the stock remains and only those connected with the parent stock are considered Israel. All who are connected will be saved.

John 14.2-3 Jesus said, "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

The Lord will set His people in their own land.
Judgment will be given to them over the wicked.

Daniel 7.21,22 I beheld, and the same horn (oppressive religious power) made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

Rev. 20.4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

I Corinthians 6.2-3 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?.. the world shall be judged by you,.. Know ye not that we shall judge angels?

Christ delivers His people, the true Israel. For 1000 years they live and reign in heaven with Christ. They will study the record books learning of the fair justice of God. With Christ they judge the wicked according to their response to the light given them which is revealed in their works.

Enjoying God's rest and peace in the heavenly kingdom — free from the tyranny of oppressive powers, God's people praise Him for deliverance.
Rev.19.1,2 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

The King of Babylon

The King of Babylon here represents Satan. The usurper prince who has instigated and guided all the confusion and warfare against God and His people. It was the dragon (satan) who gave his power to the beast. It was satan who filled Babylon with his foul spirits (Rev. !8:2) Yet Babylon, that golden city has ceased, cast down, in Revelation 18. Now, for a 1000 years satan, the king of Babylon, is left to wonder to and fro in the desolate earth. Now deprived of his power and left to contemplate the part he has acted since he first rebelled against God.

Satan instigated others to rebel and bound them together in a confederacy to do all the evil possible to man, as a means of striking against God. In anger he and his fallen angels stalked the earth persecuting and harassing the populations of the world.

Yet now the earth is at rest and is quiet, even the wicked are placed beyond Satan's power. God has broken the staff of the wicked. He who persecuted is now being persecuted and none hindereth! The redeemed break out in singing. For God's people the captivity of Satan will bring gladness and rejoicing.

Trees are often symbolic of nations. Trees rejoice, nations rejoice, because there are no more tree cutters (conquerors). No more war, bloodshed and oppression.

Christ's third Coming and the second resurrection

The graves move and all the chief ones of the earth raise up — it stirs up the dead.
Rev. 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. After the thousand years the wicked dead arise from their graves.

After the thousand years the wicked dead arise from their graves. All who have lived on earth: the mighty men before the flood, the great conquerors and kings of the nations, the ordinary citizens of earth throughout history — all who missed the blessed first resurrection will now be resurrected.

Rev.20.7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
20.8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Satan quickly takes advantage of these people again, trying to lead them to conquer God's city, but now He is unmasked. The wicked see him for what he really is. God reveals to them His justice in dealing with sin — Satan is revealed as the great deceiver.

Those that have united with Satan see the total failure of his cause and He becomes the object of universal abhorrence as they see him for what he really stands for.

Satan's ambitions revealed. It seems hard to believe, but Revelation 12:7-9 tells us that war broke out in heaven, and Christ (Michel) and His angels fought against the dragon ( Lucifer at that time) and the angels that sided with him. The great dragon was cast out, the one called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. Why was there war in heaven? Who was this rebel and why did he rebel?

Ezekiel gives us a glimpse: (28:13-15)
You sealed up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
You were in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that you were created.
You were the anointed cherub that covers; and I set you so: you were upon the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.
You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in you.

Lucifer was an angel appointed a very special position in heaven! The covering cherub by the throne of God. But this angel became centered on self. How did he fall?

He wanted to be god.
"I will be like the most high," he declared.
"I will exalt my throne above the stars of heaven."
This rebellious angel wondered: Why should God have all the power and authority? Why should God have laws? Why should the angels obey Him? To dispute the supremacy of the Son of God, thus impeaching the wisdom and love of the Creator, became the purpose of this prince of angels. He had committed high treason against the just God and Creator of the Universe.

Why did God not destroy Lucifer at that time? If God had destroyed him then, all the other angels would reason: "Lucifer was right! He told us God and His laws were unfair and just look at what happened to him. God must be a tyrant. So God chose a course to reveal the true nature of the situation. He'd allow sin to unravel itself into it's natural consequences and demonstrate that God's way brings joy and Lucifer's way brings death, then and only then would God destroy all evil.

Now Satan's sentence is pronounced.

Ezekiel 28.17 I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 28.19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

For 6000 years Satan has made the earth to tremble. He destroyed the very fiber of peoples social, emotion and spiritual health. For 6000 years he received and held people in the prison house of death. But Christ has won the victory, Christ has shown His government to be vastly superior to Satan's. Now Satan will be destroyed forever and God's people will never again be subjected to his tyranny or to his prison house of death.

Satan never experiences the first death, the death of sleep from which one can be resurrected. When the wicked were destroyed at Christ's 2nd coming, Satan continued to exist in this empty world. He did not rest in a grave during this time. However He will experience the second death of total destruction.

The final destruction

Rev. 20:9 And fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 20.10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, with the beast and the false prophet.

Malachi . 4.1-3 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

Satan will be destroyed.

Ezekiel 28:18,19 Therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

Sin will be totally destroyed it will never again "rise, or possess the land, or fill the cities"

It will take place, the Lord has sworn that it will.

What the Lord has purposed to do no one can disannul it.