God Reaches Out

In the last portion of the tenth chapter of Romans Paul reminds his readers how Isaiah had prophesied that the Gentiles, "those who sought me not," found the Lord, and God manifested Himself to the Gentile. That the Gentile, who needed salvation, would be included in God's plan has always been the case.

But the case with the Israelites, unfortunately, was so different. As God pleaded with Israel, as revealed in Isaiah 65: 2, God stretched forth His hand, extended His invitation to Israel (a people who needed salvation as badly as the Gentiles), but the people of Israel as a nation turned their backs against that invitation. There were many individuals who did not do that, however.

Lost in sin is the sad and deplorable spiritual state, not only of the Jews as a nation even yet, but the state and spiritual condition of any and all who reject the gospel, God's plan for saving man. Salvation is given to individuals, not to the masses of nations.