Troubles of Being the Chosen People an the Intersection of History

I think Christians need to use very careful, nuanced language regarding Jews because it has been used so badly traditionally-by anti-Semites that have perpetrated pogroms, purges, and holocausts. One considers the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia, the persecutions in Russia sent by the Tsar for a distraction from domestic troubles, and the expulsion of the Jews beyond the Pale of Poland and that something fewer than 30% of German Christian ministers dissented adequately from the Reich's State Church hostile takeover. 

So are Jews God's chosen people-the leavening sent into the world to bring the word of God and ideas of God to the focus of the world's attention? It would be hard to say that they aren't in light of their history and Bible prophecy. God hasn't divorced his chosen people. They are still in his plan and always were. Realized eschatology brought Christians too into the tribe of Israel with the new covenant-we are a branch grafted onto the tree as the parable goes. Jesus brought the new covenant and the Mosaic Law was fulfilled and surpassed, yet the Jews are more than just the lost world, Jesus writing the laws of God on the hearts and minds allowed Israel to move beyond the boundaries of national Israel and the Mosaic law paradigm when it was ripe historically. 

It is probably not a good idea for Christians to overly evaluate the Jews as no more the chosen people and claim that we Christians will sit on the right hand of the Lord. We are saved by the grace of the Lord yet the Jews have their own worldly destiny that they can't seem circumstantially to avoid-being in the center of things at the crossroads of the world and drawing the wrath of the forces loyal to a false prophet from Mecca too influenced by Essene determinism I think. Jews are only 13 million or so on Earth and if they have an attitude it is because they need it for self-defense. Americans have a large, powerful military and the Christian community benefited from being far away from Barbary pirates, Muslim fanatics and kow-towers to emperors for a long time. 

We can't expect Israels to be sweet, gentle and exterminated by head choppers right away. One must ask if Christians would be happier living in Israel or the Caliphate, and be aware that there are many kinds of persecution both religious and non-religious, and that Americans are said not to have a theology of suffering living in a dream as it were. I hope that continues-yet with decadence it tends to be lost.