Romans — 9
YAHUAH’s Selection of Yashar'AL
1 With Ha'Mashyach as my witness, I speak with utter truthfulness. My conscience and the RUACH Ha'Qadash confirm it.
2 My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief
3 for my people, my Yahudym Achk (brothers) and Achutys (sisters). I would be willing to be forever cursed, cut off from Ha'Mashyach! if that would save them.
4 The people of Yashar'AL are chosen to be the adopted children of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH revealed HIS Kabad to them. 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH made covenants with them and gave them HIS Turah (law), and HE gave them the privilege of worshiping HIM and to receive the wonderful promises HE gave to their ancestors.
5 Abraham, Yachaq, and Ya'aqub, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Himself was a Yasharalym according to the flesh. And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA is also Ha'Mashyach, the one who rules over everything and is worthy of eternal Yadah!.
6 Well then, has 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH failed to fulfill his promise to Yashar'AL? No, for not all who are born into the nation of Yashar'AL are truly members of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s people!
7 Being descendants of Abraham does not make them truly Abraham’s children. For the Scriptures say, “Yachaq is the son through whom your descendants will be counted,” though Abraham had other children, too.
8 This means that Abraham’s physical descendants are not necessarily children of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. Only the children of the promise are considered to be Abraham’s children.
9 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH had promised, “I will return about this time next year, and Sharah will have a son.”
10 This son was our father Yachaq. When he married Rabakah, she gave birth to twins.
11 But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. (This message shows that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH chooses men according to HIS own purposes;
12 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH calls people, but not according to their good or bad works.) She was told, “Your older son will serve your younger son.”
13 In the Dabar of the Scriptures, “I loved Ya'aqub, but I rejected Ásau.”
14 Are we saying, then, that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH was unfair? Of course not!
15 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH said to Musha, “I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose.”
16 So it is 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH who decides to show mercy. We can neither choose it nor work for it.
17 For the Scriptures say that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH told Phar'uh, “I have appointed you for the very purpose of displaying my power in you and to spread My fame throughout the Arath.”
18 So you see, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH chooses to show mercy to some, and he chooses to harden the hearts of others so they refuse to listen.
19 Well then, you might say, “Why does 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH blame men for not responding? Have they not simply done what He makes them do?”
20 No, do not say that. Who are you, a mere man, to argue with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, “Why have you made me like this?”
21 When a potter makes jars out of clay, does he not have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?
22 In the same way, even 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has the right to show HIS anger and HIS power, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH is very patient with those on whom HIS anger falls, who are destined for destruction.
23 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH does this to make the riches of HIS Kabad shine even brighter on those to whom He shows mercy, who were prepared in advance for Kabad.
24 And we are among those whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH selected, both from the Yahudym and from the other nations.
25 Concerning the other nations, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar in the prophecy of Husha (Hosea), “Those who were not my people, I will now call my people, And I will love those whom I did not love before.”
26 And, “Then, at the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people, ’there they will be called ‘children of the living 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH.’”
27 And concerning Yashar'AL, Yashayahu the Nabym cried out, “Though the people of Yashar'AL are as numerous as the sand of the seashore, only a remnant will be saved.
28 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will make a short work upon the Arath.”
29 And Yashayahu said the same thing in another place: “If 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Tsaba'ut had not spared a few of our children, we would have been wiped out like Sudum and destroyed like Gumurrah.”
Yashar'AL’s Unbelief
30 What does all this mean? Even though the other nations were not trying to follow 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s standards, they were made right with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. And it was by Amunah that this took place.
31 But the people of Yashar'AL, who tried so hard to get right with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH by keeping the law, never succeeded.
32 Why not? Because they were trying to get right with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH by keeping the law instead of by trusting in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. They stumbled over the great rock in their path.
33 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH warned them of this in the Scriptures when 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar, “I AM placing a stone in Yahushalam that makes people stumble, a rock that makes them fall. But anyone who trusts in HIM will never be dishonored.”