It warms my heart that most on this board don't buy into the evangelical BS of believing that the modern State of Israel isn't the 'chosen ones'.
I guess many have read their Bibles. In the Bible Jesus ended the sacrificial system, and opened up salvation to everyone meaning us gentiles out here whether white, black, oriental, Indian, or what ever.
Good to see people are actually awake to what Jesus' mission was and what he stood for and taught.
Amen.
Has anyone made the connection that maybe the Israelites in the bible represent all of humanity?
Yes I have. When the "Jews" went into captivity there was a lot of intermarrying/mixing between them and the "pagan" peoples in the lands they were led away to. Even going back as far as Moses we read that he married an Ethiopian woman. That was quite the scandal at the time. Then if you look in the bloodline of Jesus you will see Rahab (a Canaanite prostitute). Then you have Ruth who was a Moabite.
Yes this is true so it can't be. But maybe we all have a origin story similiar where our peoples are the Israelites and gods chosen people.