BLESSED WITH CLEAR ANSWERS TO SPIRITUAL QUESTIONS

My Dear Precious Child, As was Paul's habit, in his letter to the Roman Christians he asked them since the Law is dead because of My new covenant of the Holy Spirit being instituted in the earth, another one of his questions was if I had rejected the Israelites. Then, as was also his habit, he answered his own question. He answered that no, I did not reject the Israelites, who were also called the Jews. He reminded them that he, himself, was an Israelite, a descendant of Benjamin. He repeated that no, I did not reject My people whom I foreknew. He asked them if they remembered that Elijah pleaded with Me against Israel, how Elijah had proclaimed to Me that the Israelites had killed My own prophets, torn down My altars, and that he, himself, was the only loyal one left and the Israelites were after him to kill him. (Romans 11:`1-3) Paul reminded the Romans that I answered Elijah by saying that I had left for myself a remnant of ten thousand men who had not bowed to Baal. Paul told the Romans in his letter that, just as in that instance in their history, that I had a remnant chosen by My grace. He reminded the Israelites that if it's by My grace then it's not by any works, otherwise grace would not be grace. In other words, Israel did not obtain what she was seeking but those who were chosen by Me did, speaking of the Gentiles. He wrote to them that the rest of Israel became blind as a stupor, having blind eyes and deaf ears, and that it was still so in his day. Because the same thing had happened in David's time, he said that what they ate spiritually from hell in ways of temptations was a snare to them and a trap because their eyes had been darkened by the devil so that they could not see. Therefore they received the consequences from rejecting Jesus Christ, the stumbling stone, and their sins had become a retribution to them with their backs bent in slavery to hell forever. However, it would not be forever because of the remnant that I preserved. (Romans 11:4-10; Isaiah 29:10) Because of Israel's persistent habit of yielding to the temptation to do evil and thus spiritually divorce themselves from Me by binding themselves to idols, they had other gods and their separation from Me would not be forever. Instead, by their transgressions My salvation came to the Gentiles in order to stir up the envy of the Jews. If their transgressions and their diminished numbers meant riches for the Gentiles, how much more would be the full number of the Gentiles. Paul wrote to the Gentiles in Rome reminding them that he was a Jew even though he was called by Me to be an apostle to the Gentiles. He wrote that he gloried in his ministry of trying to arouse his fellow Jews to envy the Gentiles so that they would seek to be saved. He reminded the Jews that if it was the rejection of Jesus Christ by the Jews that allowed the reconciliation of the rest of the world, then what would the acceptance of the Jews mean? He answered his own question again, answering that it would mean life from the dead for those Jews. He said that if the first fruits are consecrated, then so is the whole mass of dough and if the root is consecrated, then so, too, are the branches. He further explained in terms that men with orchards would understand. He said that if some branches were cut off and a wild olive tree was grafted-in, then they would share the same root of the olive tree, like the Gentiles, but then they had no reason to boast against the branches. He told them that they, the grafted-in Gentiles, did not support the root, that the root supports them, speaking of Me, Myself, being the root. He told the Gentiles that they could say that the Israelites were cut off so that they would be grafted in and that was well and good. But, he wrote, the Israelites were cut off because of their own unbelief and the Gentiles were accepted because of their faith. Paul advised the Gentiles not to be haughty on that account but instead they must be in awe of My favor to them. He warned them that if they developed the same unbelief as the Jews that they would see that I didn't spare them as branches, either, because of their rebellion toward Me. Instead, he wrote that they must always consider My kindness but also My severity in relation to sins. From Me there is severity toward the Jews' sin but there is kindness toward the Gentiles, provided that they remain in My kindness; but that, if they do not, that they would also be cut off because light cannot walk with darkness. Paul wrote that the Jews who did not remain in their unbelief would be grafted back on because I am able to do it. He explained that if they, as Israelites, were cut off from the natural wild olive and, contrary to nature, were grafted into the cultivated olive tree, so much more would they who belong to it by nature also be grafted into their own olive tree. The Gentiles to whom the letter was addressed understood his teaching about nature because many were farmers with trees and they understood about their trees. They knew that it was important that they stayed loyal to Me; but if they did, like the Jews, turn to idols then they would also become separated from Me and My kingdom of God by their own choices and actions. Paul's letter succeeded in exhorting some of the Romans to continue in their dedication and loyalty to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Your Father of Good Warnings