23 Bible Verses about Israel Hardened
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But the townspeople were divided, some siding with the Jews, some with the Apostles;
Wishing to take this man with him on his journey, Paul caused him to be circumcised on account of the Jews in that neighborhood, for they all knew that his father had been a Greek.
But the Jews, becoming jealous, engaged some worthless fellows from the streets, and, getting a mob together, kept the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason's house, with the intention of bringing Paul and Silas before the Popular Assembly;
But, when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that God's Message had been delivered by Paul at Beroea, they came there too, exciting and disturbing the minds of the people.
He was about to sail to Syria, when he learned that a plot had been laid against him by the Jews; so he decided to return by way of Macedonia.
Serving the Lord, as I did, in all humility, amid the tears and trials which fell to my lot through the plots of the Jews.
"Men of Israel! help! This is the man who teaches every one everywhere against our People, our Law, and this Place; and, what is more, he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and defiled this sacred place."
Then Festus said: "King Agrippa, and all here present, you see before you the man about whom the whole Jewish people have applied to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly asserting that he ought not to be allowed to live.
A promise which our Twelve Tribes, by earnest service night and day, hope to see fulfilled. It is for this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused--and by Jews themselves!
Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty lashes, all but one.
The rest of the Jewish converts were guilty of the same hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led away by it.
"No," replied Paul, "I am standing at the Emperor's Bar, where I ought to be tried. I have not wronged the Jews, as you yourself are well aware.
While Israel, which was in search of a Law which would ensure righteousness, failed to discover one.
Brothers, for fear that you should think too highly of yourselves, I want you to recognize the truth, hitherto hidden, that the callousness which has come over Israel is only partial, and will continue only till the whole Gentile world has been gathered in.
And that, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken from you, and given to a nation that does produce the fruit of the Kingdom.
While the heirs to the Kingdom will be 'banished into the darkness' outside; there, there will be weeping and grinding of teeth."
I could wish that I were myself accursed and severed from the Christ, for the sake of my Brothers-my own countrymen.
"I was not sent," replied Jesus, "to any one except the lost sheep of Israel."
And, if their falling away has enriched the world, and their failure has enriched the Gentiles, how much more will result from their full restoration!
God has not rejected his People, whom he chose from the first. Have you forgotten the words of Scripture in the story of Elijah- how he appeals to God against Israel?
What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.
