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Paul now raises another rhetorical question to prove a point; which the apostle proceeds to answer. Have they stumbled that they should fall? Here we should add the word finally or forever. Did they stumble so that they may possibly fall and never be restored? Are they, as a nation, utterly irrecoverable? The meaning of Paul’s question becomes clear when it is worded this way: “Is it the design of God that the Jews should totally and irrecoverably be cast off? Even admitting that they are now unbelieving, that they have rejected the Messiah, that they have stumbled, is it the purpose of God finally to exclude them from mercy?” No! God has not forgotten is people. Abraham asked, “Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25). The answer is “yes!” Jehovah God made a covenant with Abraham that was everlasting. Every promise God made to his people, Israel, will be fulfilled in its entirety.
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