“In the Jewish people we see the development of God’s great purpose regarding the ‘seed of the woman’ (Gen. 3:15).
It was a Jew who sat on one of the most exalted thrones of the earth; it is a Jew who now sits on the throne of heaven (Mark 16:19; Heb. 1:3).
It was a Jew who once worked great miracles on our earth, and spoke gracious words.
It was a Jew who said, ‘Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest’ (Matt. 11:28), and a Jew who said, ‘Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me” (Rev. 22:12).
It was Jewish blood that was shed at Calvary; it was a Jew who ‘Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree’ (1 Pet. 2:24).
It was a Jew who died and was buried and rose again on the third day.
It is a Jew who lives in heaven to intercede for us, a Jew who will come in glory and majesty as earthly judge and monarch.
It is a Jew who is our Prophet, our Priest, and our King.
Christians, then, should speak respectfully of the Jewish people, whatever their present degradation.
Just as we tread respectfully on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem where there once stood the holy temple in which Jehovah was worshipped (2 Chron. 3:1), we should also tread respectfully on the ground where those people live to whom belong ‘the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came’ (Rom 9:4).”
–Horatius Bonar, “The Jew,” The Quarterly Journal of Prophecy (July, 1870): 210.
[HT: Steve Meister]
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