Earth's Final Moments: Powerful Insight and Understanding of the Prophetic Signs That Surround Us by John Hagee

Author:John Hagee
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion, Social Issues, Christian Life
ISBN: 9781616384876
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 2011-10-04T05:00:00+00:00

Great Sorrow for a Great People: Romans 9:1-4

GREAT SORROW FOR A GREAT PEOPLE: ROMANS 9:1-4

I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.

—ROMANS 9:1-4

In chapter 8, Paul carries us to the stars with his emotional oration that nothing can separate a believer from the love of God. Then, as quickly as lightning flashes from east to west, his mood radically changes as he opens chapter 9, saying, “I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart for the Jewish people.”

Remember that the Jews hated Paul. They considered him a traitor to Judaism. Paul tells us, “From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one,” adding that he was in constant “perils of my own countrymen” (2 Cor. 11:24, 26).

Just as Jesus wept over Jerusalem concerning the coming Roman invasion that would destroy the temple, demolish Jerusalem, and turn the streets red with Jewish blood (Luke 19:41-44), just so Saint Paul felt great sorrow for the Jewish people, to the point of being willing to be placed under God’s curse if it would help his brothers, his own people, his own flesh and blood—the people of Israel.

Paul responded as Moses did when Israel built the golden calf while God was giving him the Ten Commandments on top of Mount Sinai. Moses prayed, “These people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold! Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written” (Exod. 32:31-32). The “book” Moses spoke about is none other than the Book of Life of Revelation 20:12.

Most Christians do not know that all Torah Jews on High Holy days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) attend the synagogue where the liturgy calls for Jews to pray that their sins would be forgiven and their names written in the Book of Life.

PAUL’S EIGHT BIBLICAL EVIDENCES CONCERNING THE JEWISH PEOPLE

There are eight scriptural evidences that indicate that Romans 9-11 refer exclusively to the Jewish people. Let’s consider each one briefly:

1. Adoption as sons

The nation of Israel was made God’s children, which is clearly confirmed in Exodus 4:22: “Thus says the Lord: ‘Israel is My son, My firstborn’” (emphasis added). The Greek word used in Romans 9:7 for children is the same as the one used in Romans 8:16: “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.”

Israel alone received the glory, the covenants, the Law, the directions for tabernacle worship, and the promises.

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