Section 6
Let us go on to verse 9. "And David says, Let their table become a snare and a trap and a cause of falling and a just retribution to them." We have seen the same thing happen in today's situation.
Verse 10 says, "Let their eyes be darkened to see not, and let them bend their back contin ually." Is it not the same in today's Christianity? Are not the eyes of many darkened and their backs bent? They lack the sight to see and are unable to stand upright.
THE NATIONS SAVED
God's economy in His selection is firstly with the remnant reserved by grace and secondly with the nations, the Gentiles saved through Is rael's stumbling. In verse 11 Paul says, "I say then, Have they stumbled that they might fall? Cer tainly not! But by their false step salvation has come to the nations to provoke them to jealousy." In 9:32 Paul said that Israel "stumbled at the Stone of stumbling." Now in 11:11 he says that they have not stumbled that they might fall. Paul de veloped his argument very carefully, saying that they stumbled, but that they did not fall. In the next part of verse 11 Paul describes their stum bling as a "false step." As a result of this false step of unbelief, salvation has come to the nations.