Romans 9:4

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Romans 9:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

Are israelites

The adoption

And the glory

Isaiah 60:19

Covenants

The giving

John 1:17

The service

Promises

General references

Luke 15:31

Bible References

Are israelites

It is not as if the word of God failed. Not all who come from Israel are really Israel.

The man said: Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel (He Struggles With God), because you have struggled with God and with men and you have won.

Jehovah called Moses from the mountain. So Moses went up the mountain to God. Jehovah told him: This is what you must say to the descendants of Jacob. Tell the Israelites:

You are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be his own special people out of all the nations of the earth.

([Psalm of Asaph]) God is truly good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

However you, O Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you descendants of Abraham, my friend,

Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel. I have upheld you since you were conceived. I have carried you since your birth.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him. He said: Look an Israelite indeed. There is no deceit in him!

The adoption

Say to Pharaoh: 'Thus says Jehovah, Israel is my son, my firstborn.

You are the sons of Jehovah your God. Do not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

With weeping they will come. By supplication I will lead them. I will make them walk by streams of waters on a straight path in which they will not stumble. For I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstborn.

When Israel was a young man, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

And the glory

When Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Jehovah, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the throne of mercy on the Ark containing the words of God's Covenant, from between the two cherubim. This is how Jehovah spoke with Moses.

She called the boy Ichabod (No Glory), saying: Israel's glory is gone, because the Ark of God had been captured and because her father-in-law and her husband died.

It shined with the dazzling light of Jehovah's presence. They could not go back in to perform their duties.

I look for you in the holy place to see your power and your glory.

He allowed his power to be taken captive and handed his glory over to an oppressor.

Let your servants see what you can do. Let our children see your majesty.

The sun will no longer be your light during the day. The brightness of the moon will not give you light, for Jehovah will be your everlasting light. Your God will be your glory.

Covenants

On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram. He said: To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

I will establish my covenant between us. I will greatly increase your numbers.

He took the book of the covenant, in which Jehovah's commandments were written, and read it aloud to the people. They said: We will obey Jehovah. We will do everything that he has commanded.

Jehovah told Moses: Put these laws in writing, as part of my agreement (covenant) with Israel.

These are the terms of the covenant that Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab. All this was in addition to the covenant Jehovah made with them at Mount Sinai.

Jehovah said to Moses: You are about to lie down with your fathers in death. This people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land. They will plunge into the midst of it. They will forsake me and break my covenant that I made with them.

Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.

I made a covenant with my chosen; I swore to David my servant:

This is the covenant (agreement) that I will make with Israel after those days, declares Jehovah. I will put my teachings (Law) inside them. I will write those teachings (Law) on their hearts (inner man) (mind) (will) (conscience) (understanding). I will be their God, and they will be my people.

If you break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made with our fathers. He said to Abraham: 'All the families of the earth will be blessed in your seed.'

Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry. The covenant that he arranged between God and his people is a better one, because it is based on promises of better things.

The giving

Much in every way. First they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

You came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders.

He speaks his word to Jacob, his laws and judgments to Israel.

I gave them my laws and made my rules known to them. If people obey them they will live.

The law came through Moses. Loving-kindness and truth came through Jesus Christ.

The service

When you enter the land Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, you shall observe this rite.

He dug the soil all around and removed its stones. He planted it with the choicest vine. And he built a tower in the middle of it and also hewed out a wine vat in it. Then he expected it to produce good grapes, but it only produced worthless ones.

Listen to another illustration. A master of a house made a vineyard, and put a wall around it. He made a wine press and built a tower. Then he rented it to workers and traveled to another country.

Beyond the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place.

Promises

He has helped Israel his servant that he might remember mercy.

The promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as Jehovah our God calls. (Micah 4:5) (Deuteronomy 6:4)

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made with our fathers. He said to Abraham: 'All the families of the earth will be blessed in your seed.'

We tell you good news. It is God's promise to the fathers.

You were separate from Christ at that time, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel. You were strangers from the covenants of the promise. You had no hope and were without God in the world.

When God made a promise to Abraham, he could swear by no one greater then himself, so he swore by himself.

General references

The father answered, My son, you are always here. And everything I have is yours!