John MacArthur is also very good. You can find him at
Grace to You
That is a description of the doctrine of predestination and predeterminism, which many of us refuse to accept due to its implying that every individual has already been preassigned to heaven or hell, and neither of them can do anything to change this selection. It's an outgrowth of John Calvin's interpretation of Romans 9:1-11:32, which many, including the NIV Study Bible and The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, interpret as applying exclusively to Israel as a nation rather than any individual.
An argument has been made that nations are made up of individuals, so the doctrine of predestination could still apply to each person. But that presupposes that Israel was a true democracy in which each individual had a say as to what the nation would believe. But Israel at the time that Romans was written was a combination of a theocracy and a dictatorship. The theocracy was due to the priests of the temple at Jerusalem dictating what their national belief system would include. Since they were Sadducees, that automatically excluded all belief in a resurrection. There were other sects that did believe in a resurrection, but those sects had no official status. Only the Sadducees could dictate what Judaism taught officially. As for the dictatorship it was due to the nation's being under the rule of Rome and its emperor, who assigned men to rule over the affairs of Israel. Those men had absolute power over the people of Israel, answering only to the emperor himself.
As for you, you have no Scriptural exegesis. Romans 9 is about individuals being predestined onto salvation. Taken in context of the rest of Romans (rather isolating it chapter by chapter or verse by verse) you will find these things.
28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. (Romans 8 NASB)
Predestination is about individuals. This sets the context for chapter 9.
14 What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! 15 For He says to Moses, “ I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “ For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.” 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. (Romans 9 NASB)
He hardened Pharaoh's heart who was an individual so that His Name would be known.
19 You will say to me then, “ Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? 22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles. (Romans 9 NASB)
Context being individuals, He has vessels of wrath (the reprobates) and vessels of mercy (the elect).
This is in the OT as well:
The LORD has made everything for its own purpose, Even the wicked for the day of evil.(Proverbs 16:4 NASB)
See how He predestines men to hell?
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. (Isaiah 45:7 KJV)
See how He ordains all things?
How blessed is the one whom You choose and bring near to You To dwell in Your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Your holy temple. (Psalm 65:4)
See how He ordains men unto salvation?
And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. (Exodus 4:21 KJV)
See how He hardens men's hearts?
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