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THAT’S A WHOLESALE DECEPTIVE STRAW DOG.

I’ve persistently agreed that No man comes to The Father except through Christ.

I have ALSO INSISTED that God is in charge of that department with the Jews. And, I suspect

GOD ALMIGHTY will be arranging that aspect of things . . . sometimes in surprising ways.

Certainly it will be according to HIS WAYS AND HIS SCHEDULE . . . as the Scriptures I’ve quoted illustrate and describe . . . Romans etc

Romans 11:24-26 (The Message)

23-24And don’t get to feeling superior to those pruned branches down on the ground. If they don’t persist in remaining deadwood, they could very well get grafted back in. God can do that. He can perform miracle grafts. Why, if he could graft you—branches cut from a tree out in the wild—into an orchard tree, he certainly isn’t going to have any trouble grafting branches back into the tree they grew from in the first place. Just be glad you’re in the tree, and hope for the best for the others.

A Complete Israel
25-29I want to lay all this out on the table as clearly as I can, friends. This is complicated. It would be easy to misinterpret what’s going on and arrogantly assume that you’re royalty and they’re just rabble, out on their ears for good. But that’s not it at all. This hardness on the part of insider Israel toward God is temporary. Its effect is to open things up to all the outsiders so that we end up with a full house. Before it’s all over, there will be a complete Israel. As it is written,

A champion will stride down from the mountain of Zion;
he’ll clean house in Jacob.
And this is my commitment to my people:
removal of their sins.

From your point of view as you hear and embrace the good news of the Message, it looks like the Jews are God’s enemies. But looked at from the long-range perspective of God’s overall purpose, they remain God’s oldest friends. God’s gifts and God’s call are under full warranty—never canceled, never rescinded.

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I guess now you’ll be throwing out Romans as well as Revelation.

Sigh.