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 basis for reconciliation was made by Christ's death?
22. What prophetic period begins at the time when the continual mediation of Christ was taken away by the Papacy?
Why do the inhabitants of heaven worship God?
What two covenants are contrasted in the Bible?
What means will be employed to compel all to receive this mark?
In what scripture are Christians recognized as Israel?
18. Lest the Gentile grafts should boast, saying that the Jews were broken off to let them come in, what warning is given them?

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