Butterfly, I may not have fully gotten the context/background of your response, I found the notion of giving us troubling because it seems to evoke a sense of tribal or spiritual superiority which I suppose is not the case . While I understand that God chose the Israelites( Jews) in the OT to be the vehicle of blessings to the rest of the world, it was not a tribal favour against the rest as in giving us the Bible and Saviour. Christ came as a response to satisfy the righteous demands of God the Father by paying the penalty of death that consequent upon adam and Eve disobeying God. We are commanded to love everybody as you rightly said bearing in mind that it is only through the shed blood of Christ that any, even the unbelieving Jews can be saved. Find below an attachment of someone who dealt briefly on that subject.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/470676
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/470676
Well we must consider Romans 1:16. Also we Gentile background believers have been grafted into the original olive tree ( Messianic Jews).
It is also God's prerogative if He chose a particular nation to establish His plan for the world and humanity through.
Anti-semitism is growing, and sadly Reformed Theology is Anti-semitism within the Church. God sees that and it is not okay with Him. Judgement starts at the house of God. Also it is His will that Zion/Israel be literally established. No other nation is like this, and that is how God made it to be.
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