The Triune God: The Son X

Israel disobeted God so very much,
He dulled the leaders' spiritual insight;
They took God for their own, a private crutch,
Got puffed up on their standing in His sight!
He didn't want them to accept His Son,
For Jesus would be claimed completely theirs,
Gentiles unwelcomed, lest extra rites done;
Non-Jews, if saved at all, second-class heirs!
So God broke His covenant with the Jew;
Jesus died for all races on the cross;
Israel, to be saved, must accept Him, too,
The blood of the Son was the final cost!
Some Jews were saved by God's election;
Now, they must believe, without exception!

"He said, 'Go and tell this people; Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving. Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.'" (Isaiah 6:8-10)

Isaiah was a Jewish prophet who lived 700 years before the birth of Jesus, the promised Messiah. God sent him to Israel with the message above, because He had been disobeyed too much by them. Of course, God had known since before man was created that the nation He chose to be one of priests who would become a blessing to the whole world by producing its Savior would fail to keep their end of the covenant. He also knew that this could be expected from all men; he was a weak vessel and could not live a pure, sinless life; it was going to be required for God Himself to come to earth in the flesh, taking upon Himself the sins of mankind, shedding His blood to pay the wages of men's sins. Israel had become puffed up, considering God to be for them alone, and looking down upon all Gentiles. (Gentiles means all races other than Jewish.) God withdrew from His covenant with Israel and made a new covenant that provides salvation for anyone living in the world, upon the condition of sincere belief in Jesus as the Son of God. Because the hearts of most Jews were dulled by the judgment of God, when the Messiah came )Jesus), they rejected Him and had Him crucified.

The new covenant opened the doors of heaven to every human being. Jesus established Christianity, which spreads churches over the whole world. This means that salvation is for the Jewish people also, but to receive it, they must accept Jesus as the Messiah. When Jesus returns to earth the second time, He will remove the spiritual dullness that has lasted 2700 years, and the people of Israel will respond with a great awakening (See Zechariah 13:1).