It is God's purpose that just as the world was lost by a man, Adam, so it should be saved by a man, a second Adam. It was always God's purpose that the Son of God should come into the earth as a man to save his people. In order to be a man, the Son of God needed a people, an ancestry, a culture, a set of laws, a language, a country, etc. God began this work by calling a pagan, a Hebrew speaker called Abram who God instructed to leave Ur and come west to Harran and then Canaan. From Abram who was renamed Abraham came Isaac and then Jacob who became Israel. From him come the Israelites who began down in Egypt and were eventually redeemed from there under Moses. It is uniquely through the Jewish nation that God saved the world. That is one reason why they must always be loved and respected.
