Romans 10: Israel and Jesus:

Paul continues to argue why the Jews are rejecting Jesus as the Messiah, while the gentiles are accepting.
Although the Jews/Israel have zeal in obeying the Law, they are trying to get salvation instead of trusting on the Lord who gives salvation.


9-10 It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—“Jesus is my Master”—embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”

For me, it is very interesting that Paul uses the word "Israel" to talk about the Jews as in:

21 But as for Israel, He says, “I have spread out My hands all day long to a disobedient and obstinate people.”

In the church that I am attending now, they see the estate of Israel as different from the eschatological Israel. To my understanding, in my church they see the believers in Jesus as the Israel. The question is: how would Paul see the estate of Israel, the military power that we see today? Would Paul think of them as Israel in the same meaning of verse 21? If by Israel we would mean the Jews, then the estate of Israel is not composed of only Jews. Anyway, Paul is sad because Israel rejected the Messiah, but he sees it as a fulfillment of the prophecies.