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I've answered this multiple times.
God chose Israel as the one He would work with. God said through the prophet Isaiah, “Yet hear now, O Jacob My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen” (Isaiah 44:1).
So why did God choose Israel?
There are two basic reasons:
- God was fulfilling a promise to Abraham.
- God wanted Israel to serve as a model nation.
This promise was repeated to Abraham’s son, Isaac, and to Abraham’s grandson, Jacob (Genesis 17:21; 26:24; 28:1-4, 13).
As already noted, through Abraham’s descendants would come the Messiah, the One through whom “all the families of the earth” would be blessed (Genesis 12:3).
God intended for Israel to serve—be a servant—to God and to be a blessing to other nations. Unfortunately, ancient Israel forsook God, and because of their opportunity to serve God, they often wrongfully thought of themselves as superior to other peoples.
While God chose to work with the ancient nation of Israel, this decision did not exclude people of other nations (gentiles) from coming to understand God and serve Him. God instructed the ancient Israelites that they were to respect peoples of other nationalities who came to live among God’s chosen people.
One law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you” (verse 49). Later, God added: “You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Exodus 22:21).
These Jews who were the earliest Christians did not fully understand that God was also going to bring gentiles into the Church. This is part of what Paul is trying to get across to them in Romans 9.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28).
Members were considered “Abraham’s seed” regardless of their race, and the body of believers was referred to as “the Israel of God” (Galatians 3:29; 6:16).
Entrance is by faith. Not by God choosing individuals.
Romans 9:30, : "What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;"