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Rom.11:1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Here the apostle Paul deals with one of the most controversial subjects of his day, and ours, did God reject his people, Israel? First, was God looking for a reason to reject his people? No! Was God looking for a reason to reject Adam & Eve, again no! God does not delight in the death of wicked, nor does he look for bad in us.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.

Jeremiah 17:10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

God looks for the good, he hopes all things and believes all things, so if there is a rejection it would come from us, our rejecting him and than God in his wisdom dealing with our rejection for salvation for others, or perhaps ourselves in his time table and discipline. Lets us remember the truth is not a competition of beating the other guy, and/or guys, its not a game of points.

Romans 11:15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

Romans 10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Ephesians 2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Nor should we think because of heritage we have immunity from prosecution of God. God does not condone evil, he does not condone sin, he eradicates it! When God's people think their actions does not affect others specifically their brothers and sisters of the same body, body of truth in this case Moses and the law the nation Israel being dedicated to God as one. That is, where ones person sins that sin effects all, and must be atone for by the nation as one.

Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Exodus 34:27 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

Exodus 24:3 Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."

Soon or later God must break off branches if they becomes so corrupt that they effect the holy root stock of the tree causing its death. Is that a rejection? If its is a rejection, it is a self inflicted wickedness that the nation refused to correct, or it could not correct because the corruption permeated the whole mass.

Ezekiel 44:7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.

When wickedness is accepted long enough it becomes away of life, condoned and justified until the lie becomes the peoples truth and those upholding the truth become evil in the eyes of the people. There is no acceptance of truth there is a violent rejection of it because it exposes the lie. Subsequently, the killing of Christ and all of God's prophets.

Malachi 2:10 Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

When evil is removed each member must also repent because they themselves are part of the whole, as one nation they are not separate or above, they share in the sins of all. This is the concept God's anointed were failing to see, they were one body, they shared in the body of Christ as one person, if they live or died they belonged to Christ. They were not independent agents coming and going as they wished, doing as they wished thinking they were expectational.

1 Corinthians 11:25 In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me."

What they suffered is what the body suffered, what they were feed is what the body was being feed, if we share in the good, do we not share in bad? When men in power cut a body member off, does not mean that person is at all cut off from God, or rejected. It means those doing the killing of Christ and his body members themselves were rejected because of their unrighteous evil actions. What judgment they wished upon their enemy became their own judgments.

Hebrews 8:10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Hebrews 8:13 In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

Daniel 9:3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
9:4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments, 9:5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances; 9:6 neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

When we look into a mirror we see our reflection if we love the person we see despite all the imperfection, that is, we apply the law of love to the reflection and quickly forget the acceptance we make for ourselves. Then we go out and judge our brothers and sisters for the same imperfection we have overlook in ourselves, have we not become but a wicked judge!

Matthew 7:1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged. 7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

Luke 6:37 Don't judge, and you won't be judged. Don't condemn, and you won't be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

When we think our judgments are God's because we have the bible and some truth, we then share in the sins of all, and our judgments will come upon us. Rejection is in God's hands in perfect justice, he does not look in a mirror and forget the truth, or does he pervert the truth over feelings. In fact, God does not give us what we deserve, which is common among the world doling out what a person deserves without mercy. Not God, he gives undeserved kindness to sinners, he humbles himself, and does not act in anger. Let us remember all this before we can come close in how God dealt for thousand's of years with his people Israel. No God did not want to reject Israel at all, he wanted to save all Israel, and some he did, but sadly, only a remnant. One man's life has given life to the stars of the heaven enumerable as the sands of the sea, what than will God do with a complete Israel made up of Gentles and Jews alike?

Titus.3:1 Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
3:2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men. 3:3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
3:6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; 3:7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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