Israel, having grown calloused in their rebellion (Rom. 9:1-3; Acts 28:27), missed their own Messiah (Rom. 9:4-5), which certainly would lead one to ask, Has God’s Word failed (Rom. 9:6)? But even their stumbling was used in God’s sovereign and redemptive plan, as Paul proves by pointing to the prophecy in Isa. 28:16, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.”
