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. 2Co 11:221Sa 12:22Jer 33:24-26Php 3:5Act 26:4Amo 9:8-9Psa 94:14Act 22:3 God didn’t reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel: Psa 94:14Rom 8:29-301Pe 1:2Act 3:17Exo 32:1Gen 44:15Num 16:15Rom 9:23 “Lord, they have killed your prophets. They have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.” 1 1Ki 19:10-181Ki 18:13Neh 9:261Ki 18:4Jer 2:301Ki 18:30-31 But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 2 1Ki 19:18Num 25:32Ki 10:19-20Zep 1:4Hos 13:1Jdg 2:131Ki 16:31Hos 2:8 Even so too at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. Rom 9:27Eph 1:5-6Rom 9:11Rom 11:6-7Rom 11:28 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. Gal 2:212Ti 1:9Rom 3:27-28Rom 4:4-5Tit 3:5Eph 2:4-9Gal 5:41Co 15:10
What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. Rom 9:182Co 4:4Rom 11:25Rom 11:52Th 2:10-14Rom 9:31-322Co 3:14Eph 1:4 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.” 3 Deu 29:4Isa 29:10Ezk 12:2Jer 5:212Co 3:14-15Luk 8:10Act 28:26Mat 13:13-14
David says, Psa 69:22-23Psa 28:41Sa 25:36-381Ti 6:17-19Deu 32:13-15Isa 59:18Isa 8:13-14Job 20:20-23
“Let their table be made a snare, a trap,
a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Psa 69:23Deu 28:64-682Pe 2:4Eph 4:18Rom 1:21Rom 11:82Pe 2:17Isa 65:12
Always keep their backs bent.” 4
I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. Act 13:46-48Rom 11:31Rom 10:19Rom 11:14Rom 11:12Ezk 18:23Act 28:24-28Ezk 18:32 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! Rom 11:25Col 1:27Rom 11:15Eph 3:8Isa 11:11Mic 5:7Rom 9:23Isa 66:8-20
For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry, Act 9:152Ti 1:11-121Ti 2:7Eph 3:8Gal 1:16Gal 2:7-9Rom 15:16-19Act 13:2 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. 1Co 7:161Ti 4:16Rom 9:3Tit 3:51Co 1:211Co 9:20-221Ti 2:42Ti 2:10 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? Eph 1:10Rom 5:10-112Co 5:18-20Col 1:20-21Luk 15:24Luk 15:32Rom 11:11-12Rev 11:11
If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. Ezk 44:30Pro 3:9Jas 1:18Jer 2:21Lev 23:10Num 15:17-21Rom 11:17Deu 18:4 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree, Eph 2:11-13Eph 3:6Jer 11:16Jhn 15:2Mat 21:43Psa 52:8Act 2:39Col 2:13 don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. 1Co 10:12Rom 11:20Eph 2:19-20Rom 3:27Jhn 10:16Pro 16:181Ki 20:11Gal 3:29 You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.” Rom 11:23-24Rom 11:17Rom 11:11-12 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear; Rom 12:162Co 1:241Co 10:121Pe 1:17Php 2:121Ti 6:17Col 2:7Hab 2:4 for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 2Pe 2:4-9Jer 25:29Jer 49:12Jud 1:5Rom 11:19Rom 8:321Co 10:1-12Rom 11:17 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. Heb 3:141Co 15:2Heb 3:6Jhn 15:2Rev 2:5Gal 6:9Heb 10:35-39Rom 2:4-5 They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 2Co 3:16Zec 12:10Mat 23:39 For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? Rom 11:17-18Rom 11:30
For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, 5 of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, Luk 21:242Co 3:14-16Rom 16:25Rom 12:16Rom 11:7-8Zec 14:9-21Zec 8:20-23Isa 2:1-8 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, Isa 59:20Jer 31:31-37Psa 14:7Hos 3:5Zec 10:6-12Amo 9:14-15Isa 45:17Jol 3:16-21
“There will come out of Zion the Deliverer,
and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
This is my covenant with them, Jer 31:31-34Isa 59:21Ezk 36:25-29Jer 32:38-40Isa 27:9Isa 43:25Heb 10:16Heb 8:8-12
when I will take away their sins.” 6
Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. Deu 10:15Deu 7:7-8Mat 21:43Rom 11:7Rom 9:5Act 13:45-46Luk 1:68-75Rom 11:11 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Num 23:19Heb 7:21Mal 3:6Rom 8:28Hos 13:14 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, Col 3:71Co 7:25Eph 2:1-21Co 6:9-112Co 4:1Rom 11:31Tit 3:3-71Pe 2:10 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. Rom 10:16Rom 11:15Rom 11:25 For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. Gal 3:22Rom 3:91Ti 2:4-6Rom 3:22Jhn 1:7Jhn 12:32
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out! Job 11:7-9Job 5:9Psa 92:5Col 2:2-3Rom 2:4Job 37:23Eph 1:7Eph 3:10
“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Isa 40:131Co 2:16Job 15:8Job 36:22Jer 23:18
Or who has been his counselor?” 7
“Or who has first given to him, Job 41:11Job 35:71Co 4:7Mat 20:15
and it will be repaid to him again?” 8
For of him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen. Col 1:15-171Co 8:6Heb 2:101Ti 1:17Rom 16:27Act 17:281Ch 29:11-12Act 17:25-26