Is the Jewish race the Chosen People of God? More

NO! NO! NO! A thousand times NO!The Jews were provisionally chosen by God to bring Christ into the world because of God's promises to Abraham that he would be a father of many nations and that in his Seed, all nations would be blessed (Gen. 17:5, 16; 22:18; cf. Gal. 3:8). If you'll notice, after the flood the world was divided into the nations and languages that now fill the earth. That is in Gen. 10 & 11. Then, in Genesis 12, we are introduced to Abraham. The point here is that God was going to use Abraham and make him into a great nation so that Christ could come into the world through him. The laws and institutions of national Israel, were given by God to show the world's need of a Savior. The temple service was a grand object lesson showing the need for blood sacrifice and a chosen mediator to take away sin. The blood of bulls and goats, of course, could not save or take aways sin, but merely pointed to Christ (Heb. 10:1, 4). Just as the temple service was not "everlasting" but had a specific purpose pointing to Christ, so the nation of Israel had a provisional and temporary purpose. Once the purpose was fulfilled, the "election" of the Jews as God's bride concluded. The "bridal" imagery of Israel's national election is important, because it is based upon a covenant. Which covenant? The old covenant, of course! See Jeremiah 3 & Ezekiel 16. But Jeremiah said there would be a NEW COVENANT! And that new covenant is based upon the gospel and faith in Christ. The Jews covenant has ended and is gone; the ONLY way to be the bride of Christ today is through the only existing covenant there is, the gospel!The Jews' possession of Palestine was also provisional and conditional. God put the nation in Palestine (versus some other place) because it was the cross road of the ancient world, between Egypt and Ethiopia in the south, Assyria and Babylon in the East, Greece in the North, and Rome in the West. By placing the Jewish nation where he did, God made certain that every race and language of men would be exposed to the laws and institutions he gave the Jews, and so be prepared to receive Christ when he came. There are many passages in Leviticus and Deuteronomy showing that the Jews' possession of the land was conditional upon obedience. If they obeyed and were faithful, they could remain in the land. But if they sinned and rebelled, God would cast them out of the land. The scripture show that they were not faithful, so God destroyed the nation, first by the hand of the Assyrians and Babylonians, then finally by Rome for the murder of Christ and rejection of the gospel. Read Matthew 23 & 24 where Jesus prophesied about the destruction of the nation by Rome for rejecting him and persecuting his church.Are the Jews God's chosen people today. NO! All men come to grace through Christ. "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female:for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28
Paul is talking about whether men need to obey the law; whether men need to be circumcised (become Jews) in order to find grace in Christ. Paul answers NO. Through faith, repentance, and baptism we receive the adoption of sonship, are made the seed of Abraham, and become heirs of God and eternal life (See Gal. 3:29). Paul says there is neither Jew nor Greek, male or female, slave or free in God's eyes anymore. All men come to grace exactly the same way - through faith - and one's lineal descent is irrelevant. In Philippians, Paul said he counted his lineal descent from Abraham as "dung" for the surpassing greatness of being justified in Christ (Phil. 3:1-8). Thus, Paul's Jewish ancestry was a big zero under the New Testament. Jews have no advantage any more. The gospel went into all the world so all men can be saved. There is only one Covenant today - the gospel of Christ. Anyone preaching that the Jews are still God's people is preaching a reversion to Judaism and the Old Law. The Jews are not God's chosen people today, unless he has rejected the church and gone back under the Old Covenant.