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 great blessing did Christ confer upon His disciples after His resurrection?
What great exchange has been wrought for us in Christ?
What enabled Abraham to endure the test?
From what sources did Christ usually draw His parables?
What was to be the nature of the next kingdom after Babylon?
What, according to its constitution, is the avowed object of the National Reform Association?
By what does one gain the victory over the world?

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