When God mentioned Israel is the firstborn, I believe he meant Israel is the first in his eyes among all the nations.
But no matter how you sliced it, Israel in Exodus 4:22 is to be interpreted as all the Israelites, the people group, that the Pharaoh was keeping as slaves, and not Jesus.
This same idea was stated in various other OT passages, such as Deuteronomy 7:6-8, Exodus 19:3-6, so I don't really understand why covenant theologians choose to go against it.
I guess the idea that "God was a racist in the OT" is too much for them to accept.
Piles of unfaithful disobedient unbelieving racial Israelite corpses reveal God to be a racist?
How so?
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