Romans Chapter 9

This section of Romans doesn't deal as much with the beautiful, lofty, and comforting doctrine of obedience to Torah that was dealt with in the previous chapters. Paul left chapter 8 telling us that absolutely nothing can separate us from the love of Messiah Yeshua.

It seems now that Paul is going to fall into a deep depression. I think he does, to an extent. Paul is now going to discuss the sadness he has over the fact that most "Israelites according to the flesh" (his words) rejected the New Covenant offered to them through Yeshua Messiah.

Church teachings have fallen into non-Scriptural and false assumptions concerning Israel. Virtually all churches teach that Israel = Jews. This is an erroneous belief. Israel is Elohim's people as we have discussed on many occasions. We are a part of Israel only through the faithfulness of the Father and Paul makes that abundantly clear in Romans as well as in his other writings (Gal. 3:27-28, Eph. 2:12-13, 19, 3:6).

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