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In our verse-by-verse study of Romans we previously completed our Expanded Translation of Rom 9:9; "For the word of the promise is this, at this time (after Abraham's spiritual maturity adjustment to God's justice) I will come to impute blessing, and Sarah will have a son."
We see here that God's promises were Abraham's doctrine. We noted that the promise was in God's decree because it was programmed there by God's omniscience in eternity past.
In the church age all believers are elected that means they are in the decree in the categories of foreknowledge, predestination and election.
Predestination is that part of the divine decree that relates believers in Christ permanently to God's plan. It has nothing to do with the unbeliever.
The Father predetermined the grace concept of propitiation on the basis of Jesus, as described in Rom 3:25-26; that means that election, foreknowledge and predestination is always viewed is the context of propitiation on the basis of Jesus' work on the cross.
God's integrity is that part of His essence that combines His perfect justice and His perfect righteousness with His omniscience. Election, foreknowledge and predestination are information that God's omniscience fed into the decree that only deals with believers.
God's omniscience also fed into the decree information regarding unbelievers that can be categorized many ways but they all describe condemnation under wrath from God's justice.
The unbeliever is excluded from God's plan for believers that are described in the categories of foreknowledge, election, and predestination.
This means that racial Jews who reject Jesus Christ as savior are not under foreknowledge, election, and predestination, because they are under the principle of condemnation and wrath so they are actually not God's people even though they are genetic Jews. Rom 9:8;
In Jer 18:3; God's plan is described as a wheel and believers are commanded to not to try to reinvent the wheel.
The wheel is God's plan that has existed from eternity past. God's plan keeps moving forward as time prints out. The wheel must turn on an axle and the axle for God's plan is God's imputed judicial righteousness.
Every believer has God's imputed judicial righteousness but the believer also has the option to try to invent his own axle of self-righteousness.
You must decide which axle you will use. God's perfect judicial righteousness that God has provided or are you going to invent your own righteousness that is based on some form of self-righteousness. If you choose self-righteousness you reinvent the wheel and by doing that you attempt to dictate to God what will be in His plan.
So much then for the perfect plan of God that excludes the ability of man, the personality of man, the morality of man, the works of man, the ideas of man, the schemes of man. There is nothing you can do to ever receive blessing from God because God set blessings up for you on the basis of HIS plan.
When you believed in Jesus Christ God did the same thing that He did for Abraham. He imputed His own perfect judicial righteousness and that becomes the home or the target for all blessing from God in time and eternity; that sets up the potential for God's plan. Any function of our self- righteousness is never going to be sufficient Isa 64:6.
Rom 9:10; starts with conjunctive particle "de" (but) most English translations translate it (and) because there is a stronger (but) coming with the negative adverb "ou" (not), and the adverb "monon" (only) "But not only."
This is a reference to Sarah having Isaac as the son of promise as described in verse 9. Human viewpoint might object to the first case history. It might object on the basis of the fact that Ishmael, the firstborn under primogeniture was born to Hagar not Sarah.
The issue is not really legitimate versus illegitimate birth, good mother versus bad mother. Neither physical birth nor the character of the mothers, nor any other human factor is the issue. This is confirmed by the second case history that is being brought into view next.
The second illustration is twins who are born to Rebecca. Esau, the eldest twin is a Gentile; Jacob, the youngest twin is a Jew. Again Esau as primogeniture is set aside. The difference between them was not in their natural birth, their personality, or anything related to their human birth. The difference was in their spiritual birth or lack of it.
In eternity past God's omniscience knew that the firstborn, Esau, would reject Jesus Christ as savior. This means that the information in the decree includes many types of discipline for time and condemnation for all eternity for Esau.
What is in view here is that he was not an elect Jew because he was not born again. So God's omniscience fed information, resulting in the election of Jacob and the condemnation of Esau into the decree.
Physical descent and natural birth, is worthless in the transmission of God's promises and the imputation of God's blessing. Only regeneration through faith in Jesus Christ can regenerate the racial Jew into an elect Jew.
Without salvation by faith there is no imputation of God's judicial righteousness and eternal life. Therefore the predicates for fulfilling God's unconditional covenants are missing.
The twin boys had a common physical origin because they were from the same father and mother. The differences between them are not in the physical realm, although some existed. Jacob is a Jew; Esau is a Gentile, because the difference between them is spiritual, not genetic.
Consequently the true Jew is not from genetic descent from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but it is from the spiritual seed of regeneration. This explains why Paul was so concerned about the racial Jews who in rejecting Jesus Christ as savior had also rejected the spiritual seed of the true Israel and God's Shekinah glory.
Foreknowledge, election, and predestination only describe Jacob they never describe Esau or any unbeliever. The difference between the twins is not simply Jew and Gentile, it is far more important than that; it is the difference between being a believer and an unbeliever and having God's judicial righteousness and eternal life or not
Physical descent in natural birth is absolutely worthless in the transmission of God's promises and the imputation of God's blessing. Only regeneration or salvation adjustment to God's justice through faith in Christ can create the capacity for the racial Jew to become the elect Jew.
Without salvation there is no imputation of God's judicial righteousness or eternal life. These are the predicates for the fulfillment of all of the promises contained in the Abrahamic, Palestinian, Davidic and New covenants to Israel.
The twins, Jacob and Esau, had a common genetic origin. They had the same father and the same mother. But the difference between Jewish Jacob and Gentile Esau was salvation and regeneration. The next word is the adversative conjunction "alla" (but) that is used to provide an additional case to the previous one; and with it is the ascensive use of the conjunction" kai" (also). While "kai" (and) is a conjunction, in its ascensive use it acts as an adverb (also).
This means that we are going to make a point now and based on this will make an even a more shocking point later on in the passage. Then we have the nominative singular subject from the proper noun "Rebekka" (Rebecca). This refers to the wife of Isaac. So far in the verse we have "But not only (referring to the previous case history), but also Rebecca."
Then "ek" (from) "eis" (one) "koite" (bed) the direct object in the accusative singular of the Greek word that is transliterated into the English as "coitus that most translations translate as "when she had conceived or become pregnant" as we see in the NASB.
With it we have the present active participle of the verb "echo" (have). In the customary present that refers to what habitually occurs. To the reader this is a historical present tense that views a past event with the vividness of a present occurrence.
It is brought right out of the past as a spiritual illustration. The active voice: Rebecca produces the action of the verb. This is a temporal participle so we as translate it (having or when she had).
The words "from one" is important because the proper noun "Isaak" (Isaac). Then we have a genitive of relationship "pater" (father) with the definite article "ho" (the), making it monadic with the possessive genitive plural from the personal pronoun "ego" (of us). Referring to Isaac as "our only father," for all Jews, racial and regenerate.
Expanded Translation Rom 9:10; "And not only (referring to previous case history); but also Rebecca when she had become pregnant from one, Isaac our father."
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