I don't think so!. All the personal references in chapter 9 is an application of the typology that had been established in the OT people and events to illustrate the spiritual truths that were unfolding in 58 AD when this epistle was written. This chapter is about the need of the children of Abraham to experience a new birth because their being born into the earthly family of God by the flesh does not make them sons of God no matter their other advantages like having the covenant promises. How one is to be brought into that kindred relationship with God was thoroughly explained in all of chapter 8. It would be by the Spirit that dwelt in Christ, the firstborn Son of God, dwelling in the mortal bodies of those who believe the gospel of Christ. In chapter 9 the application of the types are brought into view to illustrate this. Who was born first, Ishmael or Isaac? Esau or Jacob? Israel or Judah? There are advantages at times for the firstborn but he must have a second birth to be a son of God.
Israel refused the gift of God, the Spirit of God and of Christ that could have and would have given them the new birth making them the children of God. Only a remnant and a small one received the gift and were saved. The following passage I will now quote will help you see that these earthly people of God, Israel, rejected the Spirit of God and rather held on the the law of Moses for their righteousness. this was an effort of flesh to save themselves. This is the reason God judicially blinded this nation and began selecting the citizens of his kingdom individually and spiritually birthing them into his family when they believed the gospel. They would die but he would raise them from the dead in a body like his glorified body that cannot die and can populate his kingdom.
Ac 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
He was not talking to an individual but to a nation through her rulers who have an immutable and eternal land grant through the Abrahamic Covenant. This sermon by Stephan was in AD 37/38 before the door of faith was opened to gentiles and they began receiving the gift of the Spirit individually one by one in Acts 10 as they heard and believed the gospel of God and were being born again of God. This took place in 40 AD. Romans was written 18 years later in AD 58.The manner in which God is responding to their unbelief is not a matter of OT prophecy. The actions of God in this age are "mysteries" and yet for one to have confidence in the faithfulness of the promises of God to those whom he makes the promises, he must have a working knowledge of the OT interaction between God and Israel. In Ro 7:1 through Ro 11:12 Paul gives crucial explanation of his intention of building his church by the inclusion of the gentiles who will believe the gospel during the time Israel was nationally blinded and making us "partaker" with the believing Jews of the spiritual privileges of the New Covenant. These privileges were forgiveness of sins through Christ and the gift of the Spirit who birthed us as Sons of God, putting us into the church, the body of Christ. The very mysteries of the New Testament that are said to be "hidden in God" are hidden in the OT types and are revealed as they are fulfilled in and by the anti-types.
Jesus Christ is not going to establish his earthly and eternal kingdom physically until all his subjects willingly submit in their hearts to his Lordship over them. He says so here:
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
A man can be born again and not yet be in the physical earthly kingdom of God but he cannot enter into the kingdom of God unless he is born again. It is the last Adam, the second man who is a life giving Spirit. God has taught this over and over and over in the OT. It is the second man born that God uses.
Rom 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures)
3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
In this capacity Jesus could do a lot of things but he could not save anybody.
4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
In this capacity he could save sinners and then raise them from the dead.
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Jesus was born of the flesh, the only begotten Son of God and he was born of the Spirit at his resurrection from the dead, the first of many brethren to follow.
Ro 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Ro 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
1Pe 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
When the Spirit enters into a man, his body is quickened by the presence of the Spirit.
Ponder these things. The words of God have power to open eyes and give light and understanding. Praise God.
