Thursday August 4 – Romans 11:1-10

We’re walking slowly through Romans 11 now for 3 days. This is pretty crucial text in our history of crusades, pogroms and general genocide against Jews by Christians. Can we read Paul differently – or do we give up on Romans, after the Holocaust?

God has not rejected this people. Paul is (not was) a Jew. There remains a chosen remnant – not by their own works, but by the grace of God. The credit goes to God’s faithfulness, not the right belief or right action of people in their choices of response.

So the people as a whole did not realize their wishes. Some got it, but just like Pharaoh, many had hardened hearts, deaf and blind, and falling over the consequences of their own choices. Scripture had anticipated the possibility, now realized.
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