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.

Following one of His parables, what did Christ say?
What did Adam say as he received his wife from God?
How is the true God distinguished from all false gods?
When was this time of reformation?
How long was Jerusalem to be trodden down of the Gentiles?
In perfecting character, what must come to all?
What above all else shows God's willingness to do this?

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