TSK · Isaiah 45:4

O children of Abraham, God’s servant, you descendants of Jacob, God’s chosen ones!

For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your deliverer. I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price, Ethiopia and Seba in place of you.

The Lord Will Renew Israel“Now, listen, Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!”

“The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones.

And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them short.

It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

Heirs of Promise Are Not to Return to Law Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.