How can I achieve the mercy of YHVH (YEHOVAH)?
So then,
it doesn’t depend on a person’s desire or effort. It depends entirely on Almighty YHVH (YEHOVAH) who shows mercy.
Scripture (YHVH) says to Pharaoh,
"I have put you in this position for this very thing: so I can show my power in you and so that my name can be spread through the entire earth.(Exodus 9:16)
So then,
YHVH (YEHOVAH) Almighty has mercy on whomever he wants to, but he makes resistant whomever he wants to.
So you are going to say to me,
Then why does he still blame people?
Who has ever resisted his will?
You are only a human being. Who do you think you are to talk back to YHVH (YEHOVAH) Almighty?
Does the clay say to the potter,“Why did you make me like this? (Isaiah 29:16/ 45:9)
Doesn’t the potter have the power over the clay to make one pot for special purposes and another for garbage from the same lump of clay?
What if YHVH (YEHOVAH) Almighty very patiently puts up with pots made for wrath that were designed for destruction, because he wanted to show his wrath and to make his power known?
What if he did this to make the wealth of His Glory known toward pots made for mercy, which he prepared in advance for glory?
We are the ones YHVH (YEHOVAH) Almighty has called. We don’t come only from the Jews but we also come from the Gentiles.
As it says also in Hosea,
I will call “my people” those who aren’t my people,
and the one who isn’t well loved, I will call “loved one” (Hosea 2:23)
and the one who isn’t well loved, I will call “loved one” (Hosea 2:23)
And in the place where it was said to them,
But Isaiah cries out for Israel,
Though the number of Israel’s children will be like the sand of the sea,
only a remaining part will be saved, because the KING YHVH (YEHOVAH) Almighty does what He says completely and quickly. (Isaiah 10:22-23)
As Isaiah prophesied,
If the KING YHVH (YEHOVAH) Almighty of the heavenly forces had not left descendants for us, we would have been like Sodom, and we would have become like Gomorrah.(Isaiah 1:9)
So what are we going to say?
Gentiles who weren’t striving for righteousness achieved righteousness,
the righteousness that comes from faith!
But though Israel was striving for a Law of righteousness, they didn’t arrive.
Why?
It’s because they didn’t go for it by faith but they went for it as if it could be reached by doing something. They have tripped over a stumbling block.
As it is written:
Look!
I’m putting a stumbling block in Zion,
which is a rock that offends people.
