glorydaz
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Nations? Paul is speaking about people and although he takes his doctrine from the example of Yisra El Paul is aware that the choosing of a nation has come to an end. It is now individuals that are called. One from a tribe and one from a city. It is this calling that will split families, because a sword has been brought and not peace.
"I will pour out my Spirit on all people..."
Oh no...you can't even begin to claim what you're claiming until you look back and see what Paul is quoting from, and what caused those "vessels" to be called "vessels of wrath". You're assuming something which is total error. You're claiming God is arbitrarily (via sovereignty) choosing those vessels not based on their own doings. Until you figure out what he is saying to the nations, you won't know how it could possibly apply to individuals. Jews, Gentiles, people, children of Israel....there is a story there in Hosea and Isaiah and Jeremiah...they must be read before you can see. The Calvinists are wrong on this one, too.
Romans 9:22-27 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
They were fitted to destruction by their own actions, and because of those actions susceptible to God's wrath.
Jeremiah 18:6-11 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.