That during this Age (point to Jewish Age) God dealt only with the Jews is
clearly taught in the Scriptures; for He said to them on one occasion, “You
ONLY have I known (recognized or owned) of all the families of the earth.”
(Amos 3:2) The Apostle tells us that all others outside of Israel were “aliens
and strangers, having no hope and without God in the world.” (Eph. 2:12)
“What advantage, then, hath the Jew?” the Apostle Paul inquired; and then he
answered his own question-“Much every way: CHIEFLY because to them
were committed the oracles of God.” (Rom. 3:2) God had a reason for confin-
ing His favor to Israel for that long period of over 1800 years; and at a subse-
quent meeting we may inquire into these reasons and see how God’s purposes
were being accomplished. Now we merely note the fucts.
In the end of the Jewish Age, Christ “came unto
His own, and His own received Him not.”
(John 1 : 1 1) You see, therefore, that He called
the Jews “His own.” Their rejection of the Lord
Jesus was. however, no surprise to God. He
foretold it by the Prophets. “He (Jesus) was
despised and rejected of men.” “They hid as it
were their faces from Him”; and He “had no
beauty that they should desire Him.” (Isa. 53:3,
2) Only a “remnant” received Him, as the
Apostle states in the eleventh chapter of Ro-
mans; and it was to this “remna~it” that He gave
“liberty” to become “sons of God.” SONS of
God? Were not those of previous times “sons “?
No, only ‘;friends” and “servants.” “Moses
verily was ,faithful as a SERVANT in all his
House (a House> or nation, of servants), but
Chrbt as a Son over His own House, whose
House are we (the Gospel Church), if we hold
fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the
hope firm unto the end.”
We remember that Moses was the head, or ruler, of the House of Servants, the
Law at Mt. Sinai being given at his hands to the people. He was the mediator
of the Law Covenant made with that people; while Christ is to be the Mediator
of the New and better Covenant; and the benefits of that mediation will. in due
time, when the Church shall be glorified, be opened to the world. It was after
the time of the clucifixion (point) that God’s favor began to extend beyond
Israel to all men.
Did God change His Plan? Had he become tired of dealing with the Jews only,
and, on finding that they rejected Christ, conclude to experiment with the re-
mainder of mankind? No; as we said before, God knew beforehand what the
outcome of the Jewish Age would he, and He at this time merely turned over a