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Are the Jews GOD's chosen 
People or Israel? 		 Added: 
 Jan-28-04 
To reveal whether the Jews and Israel are indeed God's chosen people one must rely on collective biblical evidence and not that of a particular phrase or figure of speech. Jesus said in Matthew 15:24, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of Israel." He also said in John 4:22 that "salvation is of the Jews". In John 1:49 Nathanael answered and said to Jesus, "Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel." We know that Jesus came to His own and his own received Him not (John 1:11). Moreover, Jesus was a Jew (Matthew 2:6; Hebrews 7:14; John 4:9). The term God's Chosen People" is not directly found in connection with the term Jew in the Bible (KJV). However, this does not disprove the fact. We find reference to Israel as a nation as being chosen of God in Deuteronomy 7:6: "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." Thus, we can say that Israel is a people chosen of God. But what of the Jew? This term was not implemented until sometime around 490 to 480 BC used to describe Mordecai, a Benjamite. The term Jew, however, had been given to describe a descendant of Judah. Why then, was this distinction given to Mordecai? The explanation is that from the time of the Babylonian captivity (around 600 BC), as members of the tribe of Judah by far formed the larger portion of the remnant of the covenant people (Israel), Jew became the appellation of the whole nation of Israel (II Maccabee 9:17; John 4:9; Acts 18:2,24). Thus, whether using Israel or Jew, it refers to the people chosen of God (Deut. 7:6). (The original designation of the Israelite people was the "Hebrews" as the descendants of Eber through Abraham.) Thus, Israel (or Jews or Hebrews) are the chosen people of God. We must avoid placing our own race (whatever it may be) upon a pedestal higher than other peoples. Those wishing to bring degradation on the Jews have fallen into the trap of geneologies and contentions (Titus 3:9-11), wishing to be made perfect by the flesh (literally). Non-Jews can be the children of Abraham, but only through faith: "O FOOLISH Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? ...Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? ...Even as Abraham believed God, and it was to him for reighteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. (Galatians 3:1-7)." Thus, New Testament believers in Christ Jesus, are become chosen of God also.