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OK, I've read Romans 10 and 11 dozens of times in English, 10-15 times in the original koine greek, five or six times in French, once in Afrikaans, twice in Italian, once in Esperanto, and hope to do so in Turkish sometime in the next few months. (the New Testament is an excellent tool for learning a new language.)

I've also read the rest of the Bible, including John's first letter, which defines antichrists rather precisely -- the myth, and those who proclaim it, that you can know the God of the Bible while abhorring/neglecting/ignoring Jesus Christ.

In other words, talmudic/rabbinic judaism. The faith that howled for the crucifiction of God's ambassador in the first century AD (that means Anno Domini, the Year of our Lord) -- and has spent the following two millenia trying to justify that decision.

Or does the Son of God pale to insignificance in your eschatology, next to the political fortunes of a Christ-hating socialist entity?

Goes to show you, can bring a horse to water and some will not drink no matter how many streams lay before their feet..
Silly boy, do you not know that the Jews are returned to the land in unbelief, but will be sprinkled by the latter rains and have their heart of stone removed and replace by a heart of flesh. Then the scriptures say they will know their God.

Now how can they return in unbelief if they first do not unbelieve? And how can you stand there still in arrogance, Since you have read Chapter 11 so many times in so many languages, that you have no excuse to not understand the dangers of looking down at your nose at the Jews, when you are but a wild grafted olive branch? Fear, indeed as the Scriptures say to do, that you will not be cut again from that tree and piled on the pile of branches for burning.

Here again is the scripture you are so familiar with, one that you have read in so many languages but never understood, that is the answer to your question. Your question that was never a question but was instead an accusation. For you did not glean an answer, but only reaped further bitterness and enmity towards me.

Romans 11:11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
12 Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
13 For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.
5 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

16 For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,
18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in."
20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, *goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

There, go forth and be ignorant no more!