Why did Israel fail to attain unto righteousness?

Answer

"But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled
at that stumbling-stone!' Rom. 9: 31, 32.

What explains God's apparent delay in dealing with Sin ?
What is the only way sinners may he justified, or made righteous?
What prophetic declaration foretold this truth?
Were the gifts of the Spirit to continue forever?
By what is Grecia, the kingdom succeeding Medo-Persia, represented in the image?
What power is there in the blood of this covenant?
Who gives men the power to get wealth?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle