Uh, he mentions both Jews and Gentiles. But in that part he is specifically referring to Israel, as evidenced by the fact that he then immediately goes to the Jeremiah passage about the Potter (God) who reserves the right to chance his mind when his people, Israel, rebel against him and either show mercy or not. What I find is that Calvinists get the whole chapter entirely backwards. They agree with the Objector that God's will can't be resisted, while Paul says it can! "Who are you to talk back to God?" Confirms man's will to go his own way. Not only that, but ya'll read it as God picking and choosing people based on, well, nothing, when Paul wraps the whole thing up by explaining that God chooses based on faith. It's such a strange case of reading incomprehension that I believe it has to be inspired by the enemy, who always takes what God meant to good and tries to twist it backwards.
You must thrive on being wrong!
Romans 9:
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
God was using Jacob and Esau then Pharoah to show that it is God who makes HIs choice and not man!
Verse 18 on- shows God has control over every person! Then He goes into a rhetorical argument against a generic human!
This is just like what Jesus said in JOhn 3:36
You just cannot get away that God predestines people to salvation. No one is predestined to hell- all are already condemned. God just calls our whom He will according to the counsel of HIs own will!
He calls us, we come, He saxes us- and in no circumstance will He cast us out! that is the Bible and it will stand! Enjoy His love for a change