Why God Chose Israel (MP 24)

So God selected Abraham to sire
A Chosen People, who’d redeem Man’s race,
Lost by Adam’s sin to eternal fire,
That whosoever wills, could be saved by grace!
Through Isaac, a tribe of priests to all men
Would bloom, obedient to God’s commands;
Showing the world how to live without sin;
Spreading Messiah’s* words throughout all lands!
They’d build a temple, in which God would dwell;
People from ev’ry tribe and tongue will come
To worship; His glory does all compel
Ev’ry knee to bend; ev’ry tongue fall dumb!
O! God’s Israel! The apple of His eye!
His holy nation! His treasure for aye**!

*Messiah’s = Jesus Christ’s
**aye = always

Scripture Quoted: Exodus 19:1-8 (NIV)
“In the third month after the Israelites left Egypt—on the very day—they came to the Desert of Sinai. After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain. Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said, ‘This is what you are to tell the people of Israel: You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagle's wings and brought you to myself. Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words you are to speak unto the Israelites.’ So Moses went back and summoned all the elders of the people and set before them all the words the Lord had commanded him to speak. The people all responded together, ‘We will do everything the Lord has said.’ So Moses brought their answer back to the Lord.”

Commentary on: What Israel’s Role Is Meant To Be
In this blog I have scrolled forward in God’s Master Plan about 500 years after Abraham. He lived about 2000 B. C.; his was an important role in God’s Plan—he was to sire a special nation through whom God could return to earth in the form of a man, Jesus of Nazareth. In His foreknowledge, God had known that Adam, the first Man created, and as the head of the whole race, would disobey Him and condemn all his descendants to physical and spiritual death. In so doing, Adam would have doomed God’s Plan to create a world of beings in His image with whom God would dwell eternally. God loved the human race so much that His Plan included a way of redeeming whoever chose to live obediently in faith to Him. Therefore, He volunteered Himself to be born a man; He would live a sinless life using only the resources available to any man, thus qualifying Himself as a second Adam, and then let Himself be crucified as a sacrificial lamb, taking upon Himself the sins of all men. While here on earth, He would teach a “gospel” (“good news”) that any man or woman who chose to believe in and trust Him as Lord would be saved from death.

In about 1500 B.C. Abraham’s descendants, who had kept careful genealogical records and married within their own kin, numbered more than two million, but were not yet a nation of their own, nor did they live in Canaan. Isaac, the miracle son of Abraham, had married Rebecca, a granddaughter of Abraham’s brother Nahor; he had two sons, Jacob and Esau, of whom Jacob was chosen, and he also married kin, Leah and Rachel, who were sisters. He had 12 sons, and they continued multiplying until the tribe reached the two million size. God had brought them out of Egypt where they were in slavery; at Mount Sinai, God made a covenant with them. They would be given the already-promised land of Canaan; obey Him fully; and be a holy nation, a kingdom of priests. The name of this Chosen Nation was Israel, the same Israel that exists in today’s Middle East. God, the Redeemer, would be born of a virgin, so that He (Jesus) would be born without the original sin imputed by Adam. We will see how “faithful” Israel was in fulfilling their promises.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him will not die, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

“That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)