Were the Jewish people rejected because they killed Jesus, the Son of God?
No, responds Paul, they were not rejected, but they are stumbling over the mission and ministry of Jesus (Yshua), who came as the anointed one (Messiah) to point them to the way of salvation. 1 Peter 2:8 – What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. Why not? Because they (Jewish People) pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone (Jesus, the Living Stone) Romans 9:30-33 – See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that make them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame. Why are the Jews stumbling all over in terms of their identity and their refusal to accept the precarnate Image of God in Jesus? Because God chose it to be that way! God was the one to lay in Zion that stone, Jesus Christ, that will make them (the Jews) stumble and fall. Is this
