[malakhi]

They are His children of natural descent

What could this possibly mean? I think you may have spent too much time perusing [5th Amendment] literature.

but they are alienated from His spiritual family and eternal inheritance.

You are the sons of YHWH your God (Deuteronomy 14:1)

Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for God YHWH is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation. (Isaiah 12:2)

But Israel is saved by YHWH
with everlasting salvation (Isaiah 45:17)

[drstevej]

Romans 9-11

9:27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.
28 For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”
29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah.”

30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the “stumbling stone.”
33 As it is written:
“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”