Paul said--->>>Romans 11:1 "I say then, Hath God cast away his people?
God forbid.
Paul understood that God's favor would return to Israel after the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, which is after the tribulation of those days. (first to the Jew)
Jeremiah 31:33-37
[SUP]33 [/SUP]But this shall be
the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel; After
those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
[SUP]34 [/SUP]And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
[SUP]35 [/SUP]Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name:
[SUP]36 [/SUP]If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the
seed of Israel also shall cease from being
a nation before me for ever.
[SUP]37 [/SUP]Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all
the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord."