WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHOSEN PEOPLE

QUESTION? / COMMENT!

What is the pattern we see with O.T. Israel?

ANSWER! / COMMENT!

How does God deal with humanity when humanity begins to multiply? Out of all of the peoples of the world, He chooses one people who are to be His people. This group, this corporation, or this special people are to be the means of bringing salvation to everyone else in the world. Now who were His people? His people were the people of Israel, and He called them first through Abraham, and He governed them through Moses; He ruled them through the judges and the kings; He threatened, pleaded, and coaxed; He warned, and He loved through the prophets.  Over and over in the Old Testament we find that God who loves humanity deals with them through this particular group. In His own words, God says in the book of Exodus, “You shall be my peculiar possession above all people. For all the earth is mine, and you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, a holy nation.” And again God speaks and says, “You shall be my people, and I shall be your God.”

 The story of Israel starting with Moses is a continual pattern of being:

1)     Conquered and taken prisoners.

2)     Repenting and being delivered by God.

3)     Prosperity and blessing come upon them.

4)     They fall into idolatry, luxury, pride and disobedience and the cycle repeats itself.

5)     They get conquered again, their taken prisoners and they enter into a life of suffering again.

The Jewish Passover instituted by Moses is still incomplete until they discover that JESUS is the Messiah and the New Moses who has come to give us the bread of life, the new manna from heaven which is the Holy Eucharist.

Dr Hahn: “Judaism is pre-messianic Catholicism & Catholicism is post messianic Judaism.”