Epiphany to Israel

The Scriptures, both OT and NT, clearly indicate that God chose the people of Israel as the only tribe on earth through which he revealed his nature, his will, and his plan to send the Messiah, the Savior of sinners. When the "epiphany, " i.e., revelation of the Messiah arrived in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the evidence of who he was was manifold and unmistakable. The predictions of the prophets and their fulfillment in his life and ministry is one example. Although most of the Jewish people rejected the Messiah, it was necessary that he be revealed, first of all, to the Jewish nation. But this was the basis for him being the "epiphany" also to the Gentile nations and thus the Savior for all peoples of the earth who will come to him in faith and repentance.