Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:32:43 PM
To say that the physical descendants of Abraham are the chosen people of God in the New Covenant Age is to disparage God. What does God say to His covenant people…
You shall be named the priests of the LORD,
They shall call you the servants of our God…
Instead of your shame you shall have double honor…
Everlasting joy shall be theirs.
“For I, the LORD…will make with them an everlasting covenant.
Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,
And their offspring among the people.
All who see them shall acknowledge them,
That they are the posterity whom the LORD has blessed.”
And what do the covenant people say to their God…
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD,
My soul shall be joyful in my God;
For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness…
For as the earth brings forth its bud,
As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth,
So the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. [from Isaiah 61]
Now those who know the New Covenant revelation should recognize this language. In some of the kingdom parables Jesus Christ used the same metaphor to describe the progress of His kingdom, a kingdom made up of men from every nation, believing Jews and Gentiles.
These are the chosen people of God, known and given to Christ before the foundation of the world.