HP: You continue to beg the question. Where is there any indication God set aside Gentiles to receive His blessings??? Jesus stated that He ONLY came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel in the beginning of His ministry.
Where does it ever indicate that unbelieving Israel was “in unbelief from the beginning??”
There is absolutely no need to move on that I can see. You have left many notions unanswered and simply ‘assumed without proof.’
Where does it indicate in the OT that God will lay aside the Israelites and give his blessings to the Gentiles? Is this what you are asking?
Isaiah 28:9-16 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing:
yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore
hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation:
he that believeth shall not make haste.
Verses 11 and 12 are quoted by Paul in 1Cor.14:21,22. The stammering lips and "another tongue" refer to the "tongues" or foreign languages of Pentecost and the gift of tongues or languages that was present in the first century. It was a sign to the unbelieving Jews that God had set them on the shelf and that now the message of God had been given to the Gentile believers. It was a last chance; a last warning. They knew about it this warning, this prophecy that was written here. It came to pass and they ignored it. The judgement fully came to pass when Titus destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
God spoke through the Gentiles through other languages, something that the Jews would abhor. To be given God's message by Gentile message would be worse then eating pork. It was an abomination to them. Remember that they wouldn't even enter their houses, much less to listen to God's holy message from them. And yet this was God's warning to them that they would no longer be God's chosen nation. He would turn to the Gentiles instead. And so he did.
1 Corinthians 14:21-22 In the law it is written,
With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
22 Wherefore
tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
--Verse 21 is a quote from Isaiah 28.
