Israel - An Elect Nation

We should see here that God’s purpose in election included the election of the nation of Israel, and not the nation of people which descended from Esau; those who became the Edomites. Even within the nation of Israel itself, in Old Testament times, God had a purpose of Electing mercy to show to many in Judah; and the prophecy of ultimate fulfillment, in the New Testament times, of a vast multitude of Jews being converted. In New Testament, New Covenant times, God has, through the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, broken down the barrier between Jew and Gentile making them one new man in His Church. And yet a partial hardening has happened during this present Church age so far, to the Jews as a nation and as an ethnic people, until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in. Only a remnant will be saved until the Lord decides to show them mercy.