There is no single verse in the entire Bible that says that Israel is perfect. Not even one. Not a single verse in the entire Bible that says, “God will choose them only when they turn perfect” or “God will fulfill all of His promises to them only if they’re perfect.” It’s just not there. It’s only in the minds of self-righteous people who think, “Oh, how can God be so faithful to a nation that is still in disbelief.” And it’s this insecurity of so many Christians. And then they resort to replacement theology and all of the other trashy things that completely distort their understanding of the entire word of God – mostly the eschatology, the teachings of the future of prophecy.
It is a rather bizarre phenomenon how people place performance expectations on the Jews that they don’t apply to themselves. The truth is we should all be glad that Israel gives us such wonderful lessons on the faithfulness of God. Through them we see that He keeps His word no matter how faithless or how many failures are part of our lives.
Romans 3:3-4a
For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? Certainly not!
It is curious how many believe God has cast off Israel as His chosen people because of their sin, yet believe that they themselves are eternally secure because God chose them. Yet, all of them still sin.
Malachi 3:6
“For I am the LORD, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.”
The Lord not changing is a two way street. That means He still does what He has always done, and that He doesn’t start doing what He didn’t used to do. So, if God’s M.O. in our modern world does not involve Him choosing some and then casting them off, which means that they are secure in Him today, then that has to have always been true. For the Jews, it is not that they are saved because they are Jews. Instead, it means that saved and unsaved alike, nationally speaking, they are His chosen people.
If they had to be perfect to be His chosen people and He doesn’t change, then Christians would have to be perfect to be His chosen people today. Obviously, no one is perfect, and yet the Lord saved us in our grossly imperfect and sinful state.
Let’s not miss the goodness of God shown through the Jews by saying or thinking He does to others what we believe He will never do to us. Yes, the majority of Jews rejected Jesus as Messiah, and yet all the apostles and most of the early disciples were Jews.
The fact that the Jews are back in the national homeland tells us this is going to happen in the near future:
Zechariah 12:10
“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.”