God Has Not Rejected Israel

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I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

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“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.”

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But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

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Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

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And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

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What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

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According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

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David says, “Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

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Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always.”

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