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ROMANS CHAPTER 10

  We are reminded again in chapter ten that the intended universality of God’s reconciliation was clearly predicted very early on:

  Romans 10:18 "But I say, Did they not hear? Yes, truly, Their sound went out into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world."
Ref. Psalm 19:4 "Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,"

  Romans 10:19 "But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding will I anger you."
Ref. Deut.32:21 "They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God: They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation."

Romans 10:20, 21 "And Isaiah is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not; I became manifest unto them that asked not of me. But as to Israel he says, All the day long did I spread out my hands unto a disobedient and contradicting people."
Ref. Isaiah 65:1, 2 "I am inquired of by them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. 2I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, that walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;"

  ***(aaron-What we have seen here in these brief passages from chapter ten, is the clear fact that God continues to have His hand stretched out to His first peoples, as He manifests His invisible dispositions and the universal character of His reconciliation to all peoples, tribes, tongues, and Nations. This is the evident transition that leads to the ultimate fulfillment of His promise to Abraham-In your seed shall all the Nations be blessed.)