What that suppose to mean? God didn't know that there will be Christians in the future?
With out Christ, there could be no Christians right?
So where did Christ come from?
Out of the House of David.
David was a son of Abraham.
To look at Christianity without the Jews is to not understand the whole of Christianity. We have (Through Christ) been grafted into the covenant God made with Abraham.
romans 11:
11Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. 12But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!
13I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I make much of my ministry 14in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. 15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in." 20Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. 21For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. 22Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
so why Didn't God tell that to Abraham? Why didn't he tell him that he chose his children to host his son?
Because that was only part of the reason God Choose His people. In order to have a savior we need to know what it is we are being saved from.
God chose the Israelites because of the exceeding righteousness and faith of their father Abraham. He chose them to not only host the savior, but to receive the Law in which we are to be saved from. "chosen" does not mean all are automatically saved. Chosen in this case means the people God is used to establish is plan of salvation. They were chosen because God liked Abraham.
God was going to go through with his plan of salvation even if Abram (Before God renamed him Abraham was known as Abram) didn't exist. We are told that this plan was in place before the foundation of the world had even been set. If not Abram then another exceeding righteous man would have taken the name Abraham and His descendants would be known as Israel.
There are many ways to be a Jew not just by being born to Jewish parents.
This is where i think you are confused. Are their any ways to become truly Arabic, other than to be born Arabic?
If my mother was Korean, and my father American does this entitle me to be a prince of Arabia?
Even if I choose to be a Citizen of Saudi Arabia does change my blood line?
There are Those who are born Jews, Those who practice Judaism as a religion, and there are those who are citizens of the nation of Israel. You can technically become a Jew, but that Doesn't make you a blood line descendant of Abraham.. This is the manor in which "Race" is being discussed. To be considered a member of the Jewish race you have to be born into that class of people. Again wanting to be a Korean doesn't make one a Korean descendant.
It is from the descendants of Abraham that Prophesy is full filled in the Chosen people of Israel. Again the Jewish people were able to trace the linage of Jesus back to Abraham. None of those people were last minute converts. They were all legitimate Jewish Men.
But today Jews are not a race of people, there are white, black, Arab, Persian and maybe even Chinese Jews.
In the strictest sense these people are not a "race" of Jews. They can claim Jewish roots and can be considered practicing Jewish people before all religious authority, but again are not
the "race" of Jewish people.
There was a small number of Jewish people left in the holy land after King Nebuchadnezzar took the majority of the Jewish people into captivity. These people flourished with "other races" while the rest of the Jewish people were being held as slaves in captivity. Many years later When the Jewish people were released from their captivity, and returned Home. they did not see the descendants of the
"Small number of people " Left by the king, as Brother Jews.. They saw them as 1/2 breeds and from then on the majority of them were referred to as Samaritans.
also know that these people still worshiped the same God and stuck by their "Jewish" traditions. It wasn't till after the return of the Israelites that their beliefs became to change.
So again, To worship as a Jew is one thing, to be considered a son or descendant of Abraham is another completely. you can worship and still not be apart of the Jewish "race."
Well Judaism wasn't the first religion, Noah had a religion and it wasn't Judaism. so Judaism was just another religion.
Noah, like Adam worshiped God directly, none of us has a direct line to God outside of God's efforts that has it's foundations firmly established in Judaism. If we can talk to God now it is because of the foundation that has been laid by all of those who came before us, if you look far enough back.. it will go to one man, and his version of righteousness, and faith that found favor in God's eye. Even if you consider Judaism "another religion" Know that it is the religion that God established Himself.
