The Separated People

 Israel is God’s chosen people by covenant relationship.  This is clearly seen throughout the scriptures.

God’s dealings with Israel, as a people, are clearly different from His dealings with other peoples from a covenant point of view. 

And because of that,  Israel has a heavy accountability and burden that is not laid upon other peoples.

Breaking the covenant brought judgement upon Israel. And that fact too is clearly seen throughout the scriptures.

Race is a fact of life and it is also an insistent Bible fact that cannot be denied throughout both  the new and the old Testaments. 

So understand that the Bible is primarily a book about the people of the  book, Israel. Israel is declared to be a servant race, not a better race than others. 

  

There are two very interesting facts found in both Testaments that are not commonly accepted by the religious community of today. 

Firstly there are the many statements that show that God redeemed those who were already His people prior to the redemption  of the Saviour, for example, Psalm 111:9, He sent redemption unto his people or Luke 1:68, for he hath visited and redeemed his people.. Redemption was available to His called people. 

The second interesting fact that will be seen in these Scriptures is that what is  known as “The Law” as a covenant was given to Israel as a race and it states that it was not given to any other race or people.

These two Biblical facts are very contrary to popular teachings of the religious community today.  This has a universal acceptance as you hear the message from them today. 

 Being taught today is the Jews have been replaced by the church group,. However serious Bible study shows that to be error…….This same group teaches that the law is null and void and is not useful in todays’ teachings.  We do not find this being witnessed in the Old Testament Law and the Prophets. In the New Testament, we still find  clear reference to the Twelve Tribes of Israel; they have in no way disappeared. 

Back to our timeline of Grace and Law. 

God started with Abraham 

Then God followed the chosen sons  of Abraham

Then as the lineage continues, directed by God into the land of Egypt, these went about 70 into the land and quickly grew to millions of Jewish peoples. 

 So direction of God takes Abraham as one man to a family to a people that will continue to grow to a people that can not be numbered.

No one can understand the Old Testament without understanding Abraham, for in many ways the story of redemption begins with God's call to this patriarch. 

Abraham was the first man chosen by God for a role in the plan of redemption. The story of Abraham contains the first mention in the Bible of God's righteousness imputed to man as the sole means of salvation (Genesis 15:6). Remember the prior fact of Redemption in the Old Covenant.

God separated out this people and has not left these people even unto today.

Ex 19:3-6

3 And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;

4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy (set apart) nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

Continuing with the calling.

Deut 7:6-10

6 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

7 The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

8 But because the Lord loved you, and because He would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Why did God love them? Because He loved them.

Why did He choose them? Because He chose them. 

This is not human religious logic; it is divine logic. It is a logic only the True people of God can understand.

It is the logic of grace that is only from our Father God,  that brings a people to Him……….. that fellowship God has always desired from the beginning. 

Most of the religious peoples,  respond to hearing that "God chose Abraham...or Israel, … or certain believers to show His grace and is religiously taught in such a way, to somehow show that God excludes His grace from others.  

God IS SOVEREIGN and I trust in His choices and will not and do not challenge Him if He chooses someone to divinely controls their choice because He is God and I know that He is just.

As with Job, “Do not charge God foolishly”

 

Paul declares this in Romans  

Romans 9: 14-15

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.

 The unrighteousness and false accusations against God is in us……not the Sovereign God….. He is God....He can do anything that He wants and be totally just in His decisions and actions.

Back to Debt. 7

9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.