28. The Lord will be quickand sure to do on earthwhat he has warnedhe will do.”
29. Isaiah also said,“If the Lord All-Powerfulhad not spared someof our descendants,we would have been destroyedlike the cities of Sodomand Gomorrah.”
30. What does all this mean? It means that the Gentiles were not trying to be acceptable to God, but they found that he would accept them if they had faith.
31-32. It also means that the people of Israel were not acceptable to God. And why not? It was because they were trying to be acceptable by obeying the Law instead of by having faith in God. The people of Israel fell over the stone that makes people stumble,
33. just as God says in the Scriptures,“Look! I am placing in Ziona stone to make peoplestumble and fall.But those who have faithin that one will neverbe disappointed.”