What has the Lord given to the Israelites?...

The adoption as sons of God, the Glory of God dwelling between the wings of the cherubim, the Divine covenant of circumcision, the Ten Commandments, the priestly ministries and sacrificial offerings, the promises of Divine blessing and of Christ to come.

It is important that Paul did not say that the blessings of God, including the adoption as sons, were for the Israelites, but that they are (present tense) for the Israelites.

Currently there is a concept termed replacement theology. The idea is that the Christian Church, because of the disobedience of the Jews, has replaced the nation of Israel as the servant of the Lord. This concept is incorrect. If it were true, God’s calling would depend on our works rather that on His foreknowledge and election.

The adoption as sons and the Glory of God are first for the Jews. The Gospel of salvation always is to the Jew first.

It is not that God has turned away from the Jews, it is, rather, that the elect Gentiles have been grafted on Israel, on the cultivated olive tree. The new covenant always is made with Israel, and we must become part of Israel through Christ in order to enter the new covenant.

God never changes. The names of the twelve tribes of Israel are on the gates of the new Jerusalem while the names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb are in the foundations of the wall. Thus the names of twenty-four Jews are written on the heavenly city—the city that is the hope and joy of all believers in Christ.

As soon as the full number of elect Gentiles have entered the Kingdom of God, God will turn once again to physical Israel. The Spirit of God will be poured on the nation of Israel; for the promises of God to Israel never shall be done away.

The patriarchs of old, the prophets and heroes of faith, were all Israelites. Christ was born of God through the flesh of a virgin of Israel. Christ of the Jews is Lord over all, blessed of God forever.

The fact that God selected Abraham from all the inhabitants of the large city of Ur, and chose Abraham’s descendants, the nation of Israel, with whom God has dealt in a manner that has never been true of any other race of people, is one of the clearest demonstrations in all Scripture of Divine foreknowledge, predestination, and election.