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.

12. What prohibition did God give His chosen people against intermarrying with the heathen nations about them, and why?
How did the Israelites in the wilderness on the sixth day prepare for the Sabbath?
Into what perplexity did Christ's working of miracles on the Sabbath throw the Pharisees?
What did the dragon do when cast to the earth?
Whom should we fear and dread?
What will be the final doom of Satan and his angels?
Who has everlasting life?

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