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God Has Not Rejected Israel
Romans 11:1-10
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“In that case, I say, isn’t it that God has repudiated his people?” Heaven forbid! For I myself am a son of Isra’el, from the seed of Avraham, of the tribe of Binyamin.
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God has not repudiated his people, whom he chose in advance. Or don’t you know what the Tanakh says about Eliyahu? He pleads with God against Isra’el,
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“Adonai, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars, and I’m the only one left, and now they want to kill me too!”
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But what is God’s answer to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not knelt down to Ba‘al.”
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It’s the same way in the present age: there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
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(Now if it is by grace, it is accordingly not based on legalistic works; if it were otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.)
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What follows is that Isra’el has not attained the goal for which she is striving. The ones chosen have obtained it, but the rest have been made stonelike,
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just as the Tanakh says,
“God has given them a spirit of dullness —
eyes that do not see
and ears that do not hear,
right down to the present day.”
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And David says,
“Let their dining table become for them
a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a punishment.
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Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see,
with their backs bent continually.”
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