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 is the evidence of genuine, living faith?
Against what are husbands cautioned?
To whom does God reveal the secrets of the future?
How many of the dead will be raised?
How did Christ treat His Father's commandments?
In His first recorded discourse, what did Christ say of the law?
What change will then take place in both the living and the sleeping saints?

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