Romans 9:6

Romans 9:6 But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel: "word of God hath come to nought" -'has failed' (NASV); 'It doesn't mean God failed to do what He said' (Beck). The fact that millions of Jews (when Paul wrote) stood outside of Christ, still unblessed, would cause some to think that all the promises that God gave to Israel had failed. 'If the promises of God were really made to physical Jews by. faithful God why didn't they all have them?' (McGuiggan p. 286)

'For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel' -'Not everybody that is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel' (Wms)

'He is clearing up what may cause. difficulty for earnest Christians when they look at the position assigned to Israel in God's Word and yet see that Israel is lost. They may think that the Word of God has dropped away, that the outcome with regard to Israel proves it to be unreliable, non-dependable. Such would be mistaken regarding Israel and regarding the Word: regarding Israel because it does not include all the physical descendants of Abraham; regarding the Word because this is promise and itself excludes unbelief and unbelievers.'

POINT TO NOTE:

'What he doesn't suggest is: "The answer to your problem will be given. few thousand years from now when God will bring the bulk of. whole generation of Jews to faith and consequently to salvation (there are those who insist that Paul proves God's faithfulness in Chapter 11 by speaking of the coming glorious conversion of. very large number of unbelieving Jews). That would have been no answer at all. He had. present problem; one right in front of him. What about those unblessed Jews in Paul's day (and before?) Did the Word of God come to nought in respect to them? Never! Shall we say the promises were not addressed to them? We can't do that (Romans 9:3-5; Acts 3:25; Acts 13:32). We must insist with Paul that the real heirs are faithful physical Jews.. The same is true with the rest of the world. God offers salvation to all men (1 John 2:1; 1 Timothy 4:10; Mark 16:15). But only those who manifest 'faith' actually inherit the blessing. (Galatians 3:26)