The Triunity Report

The Jews -- God's Chosen People

What is God's relationship with the Hebrew people?

Radio Spot by Dr. Hugh Ross, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Does God play favorites? Is God a Zionist because He has been supernaturally assisting the Jews? In Ezekiel's prophecy, chapter 36, we are told, and I quote "It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes." In other words, God is performing miracles today in and around Israel not as a favor to the Jews, but as a testimony to the truth of His word, and not to gain the attention of the Jews but to gain the attention of the entire world.

Further proof can be seen in events between Israel and her Arab neighbors since 1948. Whenever the Arabs sought to move beyond what God had predicted, they were struck down by God's miraculous intervention. And, so were the Jews. In both 1948 and 1973 the Jews found themselves miraculously prevented from achieving certain military objectives-- objectives clearly beyond what God, through His prophets, had predicted.