What About Israel?...Romans 9-11 pt 1

https://billrandles.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/what-about-israel-romans-9-11-pt-1/ ^ | 02-02-15 | Bill Randles

[LearsFool]

"Tenure" :-)

Well they sure THOUGHT they did anyway:

"and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham."

If they wanted to retain God's promises, Peter told them how to do so:

"And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation."

[caww]

..”We are the Bride of Christ in the NEW covenant.

Israel is still Israel and will be restored someday”...

That is it in a nutshell...great!

[metmom]

Romans 11:1-5 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” But what is God's reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

[LearsFool]

Yes, exactly. Just as in Elijah’s day, it is not the whole nation, but the obedient remnant God chose. Those who say “Well that means God has broken His promise to Israel” are corrected by Him in the passage you quoted.

Elijah might’ve thought he was the only rigteous man left in wicked Israel. But God knew otherwise. He would reject the vast majority of the nation for their rebellion, and would retain the obedient remnant to receive His promises.

Jesus preached the same message while He walked the earth. And as we see in the gospels, and later in Acts and the epistles, it’s still the remnant, not the entire nation, that God has chosen.

Whether in the time of Noah, or Lot, or Elijah, or the destruction of Jerusalem (Matt. 24, etc.), or the 144,000 He sealed in Revelation, God always knows His obedient remnant, and it is they whom He makes heirs of His promises.