''God divorced Israel''
I believe we discussed that a while ago in another thread. Roman 11 clearly shows that divorcement did NOT take place:
King James Version: Romans Chapter 11
1 I say then,
Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of
Abraham, of the
tribe of
Benjamin.
2
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the
scripture saith of
Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against
Israel saying,
3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself
seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of
Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of
grace.
6 And if by
grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise
grace is no more
grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more
grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then?
Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the
spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear
unto this day.
9 And
David saith, Let their table be made a
snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and
bow down their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall
salvation is come unto the
Gentiles, for to provoke them to
jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the
Gentiles; how much more their
fulness?
13 For I speak to you
Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the
apostle of the
Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my
flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild
olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the
olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the
goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee,
goodness, if thou continue in his
goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the
olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good
olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own
olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye should be
wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to
Israel, until the
fulness of the
Gentiles be come in.
26 And so
all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For
this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the
gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.
29 For the gifts and
calling of God are without
repentance.
30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained
mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your
mercy they also may obtain
mercy.
32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have
mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his
counsellor?
35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be
glory for ever.
Amen.
