God has placed Israel on a shelf, which began when Paul proclaimed, " . . . It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles" (Acts 13:46). The time will come when God will again deal exclusively with Israel, during the 'time of Jacobs trouble.'
***What a radical idea, that God would place Israel on hold, or even, as another responder posted, that God cast away Israel. What’s left out is Acts 13:47 which says, “For so the Lord has commanded us, saying,
‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
That is quoted from Isaiah 49:6, but the whole passage, Isaiah 49:5-6, is as follows:” And now the LORD says,
he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him—for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD, and my God has become my strength— he says:
“IT IS TOO LIGHT A THING THAT YOU SHOULD BE MY SERVANT TO RAISE UP THE TRIBES OF JACOB AND TO BRING BACK THE PRESERVED OF ISRAEL; I WILL MAKE YOU AS A LIGHT FOR THE NATIONS…”
It appears that God did not put Israel on the shelf, or forsake her, as the posters believe Paul meant, but rather God through Jesus has lumped Israel in with the rest of the world.
I realize in my original post, I misquoted Deuteronomy 29:14-15. It should have read, “It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant, but with whoever is standing here with us today before the Lord our God, and with whoever is NOT here with us today.” That would imply other generations, but it could also imply the rest of the world that wasn’t present with Moses when god declared His Covenant.
It was always God’s intent that the whole world love Him, and whoever did would be His chosen, inasmuch as the Bible says that the Heavens declare His glory.