Rom 11: 9, 11-23

Excerpt:…But it is a Christian theme to be embraced by true believers: It is the strong-meat aspect that has been hidden from all eyes for the last 2000 years. We need not then access the Sumerian tablets, the so-called Ethiopian bible, nor study Egyptian Hieroglyphs; the apocrypha, the Kabala, nor any other dubiously cryptic manuscripts. Despite their promotion by vain commentators, this story is plainly expressed in the writings of Paul. Let’s read his Hebrew/gentile commentary in, “ Rom 11: 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: … I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy … 13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles … 20 … because of unbelief they were) broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: … 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graff them in again.” —Rom 11: 9, 11-23. Paul here explains that Hebrew Israelites have been provoked to jealousy and hatred of Euro-Christian success. Many voices among them even claim that God hates the gentiles. Paul’s warning to both was serene: Gentiles must behold God’s severity to Jerusalem in the day when the tables are reversed. But for the Hebrews, he expressed comfort in the day when they are regenerated. In calm spirits then, they must, as did Simon of Cyrene, shoulder the blame for the cross of slavery which they have borne…