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 change is wrought by beholding Jesus?
Why were the miracles of Christ recorded by the inspired writers?
At the end of this time, what was to be done to Messiah?
What is necessary where there is a covenant?
What did Christ say of the certainty of this prophecy?
When were the sun and moon darkened?
From what ills will the saints he for ever delivered?

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