God didn’t reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Romans 11:2 in context
Romans 11:1–5
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I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
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God didn’t reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
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“Lord, they have killed your prophets. They have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.”
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But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
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Even so too at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
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