https://www.youtube.com/live/L....Sfs58cGx1U?si=V_D-Qd
United States just bombed Iran a little while ago. The president addressed the nation and my wife and I were watching. It's amazing what he did.
Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you,
➡️provided you continue in his kindness.⬅️
➡️Otherwise you too will be cut off. ⬅️
Romans 11:22 ESV
God’s kindness is manifested in his eager desire to forgive, heal, and restore, and in his forbearance to condemn. His severity is manifested in his willingness to exile, inflict suffering, and even to eternally condemn if it becomes necessary.
God is love, but he is also vengeance. Never mistake love for niceness. God is loving and kind, but he is not nice in the sense that he always wants you to feel good. He will hurt your feelings and crush your very bones if it could drive you or your neighbor to repentance.
For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
Romans 11:21 ESV
The use of “natural branches” refutes any idea that “the Jews” or “Israel” in this context could refer to anything that is completely divorced from the genetic lineage of Jacob. “Natural” Israel at this point had certainly incorporated many foreigners over the centuries, but the entire analogy falls apart if Israel wasn’t substantially made up of actual descendants of Jacob.