Notice that Paul is speaking about the JEWS.
Yes, that's obvious for anyone who actually reads what Paul said there. But you falsely claimed God does not blind ANYONE in your previous post.
And I can pretty much already tell that you don't know enough your Bible history about the Israelites to realize that the majority of Israelites NEVER USED THE TITLE OF 'JEW'.
The JEWISH historian, Flavius Josephus, who lived circa 100 A.D., said the title of JEW originated from the sole tribe of Judah. He said those who RETURNED to Jerusalem from their Babylon captivity, that is the title they took, as all that went captive with Judah and returned, meaning foreigners, also took that title of Jew with dwelling in Judea-Jerusalem. That did NOT... apply to the northern TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
The ten northern tribes that dwelt in the northern portions of the holy land, and made up the MAJORITY of Israelites even back then, were no longer in the holy land when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took the JEWS captive to Babylon for seventy years. God had already scattered the ten northern tribes out of the holy land about 120 years prior. This is Bible history.
And here is the important part of that which RELATES DIRECTLY TO CHRIST'S CHURCH:
The JEWS at Jerusalem-Judea represent the "house of Judah" per Bible Scripture. Those represent ONLY the 3 tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi, and a small remnant of the northern 10 tribes which left the north when Jeroboam king over the northern ten tribes setup gold calf idol worship in the north. Also included with Judah were the strangers that dwelt in the southern lands, like the Canaanite bondservants which Israel was not able to destroy. And that is who is there in the nation of Israel still to this day. The ten northern tribes of Israel, non-Jews, lost their heritage as part of Israel when God scattered, which He said would happen per His prophet Hosea.
So yes, the majority of JEWS rejected Lord Jesus as The Christ, and still do today.
But the ten scattered tribes captive to Assyria and lands of the Medes migrated westward from there, and crossed around the Black Sea, many of them becoming known as Caucasians having crossed through the Dariel Pass in the Caucasus Mountains east of the Black Sea, and trekked into Asia Minor and EUROPE. They became known as 3 specific groups, the Cimmerians, the Scythians, and the Sakkae. They would become the early founders of the western nations. Links to their later names were found in the Assyrian Tablets, and linguist professor Leroy Waterman at the University of Michigan in the 1930s translated several of those Assyrian Tablets to discover this.
Because many in the Church don't like to teach about that history specific to the seed of Israel, because they feel it might alienate the Gentile believer, that history and evidence is seldom mentioned in the Church. Yet it is Bible history, because God revealed He would cause the ten tribes to lose knowledge of their heritage as Israel, and scatter them into the 'wilderness', and let them have the full Baal idol worship they forgot Him for. And when it was time, God said He would speak softly to them, and give them a 'new covenant', and they would again become 'Ami' (My people), and the believing Gentiles with them.
So when you look at the history of the Western Christian Nations, you are seeing where God scattered the majority of the seed of the ten scattered tribes which came under The New Covenant Jesus Christ when they began to put their idols away in Asia Minor and Europe. Britain was first to believe The Gospel of Jesus Christ on a 'national scale'. That is what fulfilled God's prophecy to Jacob that his seed would become "a nation, and a company of nations" per Genesis 37, and that Joseph's son Ephraim would become "a multitude of nations" per Genesis 48. That was fulfilled in the Christian West.
With understanding that Biblical and European history, how many Israelites of the seed of the northern ten tribes do you think that involved with the Christian Church? The majority of the ten scattered tribes, and a remnant of the JEWS that were scattered to the West also which believed on Jesus Christ. This is why Apostle James addressed the 12 tribes scattered abroad in James 1:1. Even Josephus (100 A.D.) said in his day the ten tribes were scattered beyond Euphrates, and were a great number of people, too many to count.
After God had split the old nation of Israel per 1 Kings 11 forward, the northern ten tribe kingdom was called the "house of Israel". That title applied ONLY to the northern ten tribes under Jeroboam, king of Israel. The JEWS of the southern kingdom became known as the "house of Judah" as written.
When Lord Jesus said He was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel, He was pointing to the ten scattered tribes, not to the JEWS. The majority of the JEWS at Jerusalem-Judea rejected Him, and thus The Gospel took hold elsewhere, but where? Among the peoples of Asia Minor and Europe, the Western Christian Nations, and that means the early Christian Church in the West as a majority of Israelites.
So next time you hear a preacher get up at the pulpit and claim all those of Israel are JEWS, just laugh inside, because that preacher doesn't know this Bible history, and that should be enough to make suspect any of his teaching on Bible history.
