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.

Under what striking emblem was He prophesied of by Balaam?
What record answers to this prophecy?
What prophecy foretold Christ's triumph over death?
What charge did Jesus bring against the Pharisees?
What did this little horn do to the people of God?
In view of the judgment, what exhortation is given?
Because of disobedience, what experience came to Israel ?

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