Besides this massive array of power, immovable as it appears, there is the veil cast over the
Christian mind as to the supposedly peculiar destiny of "God's chosen people." The Christian cannot
read the Bible except through Jewish spectacles, and, therefore, reads it wrong. The idea of "the chosen
people" is one of the two great biblical ideas, but that the Jews constitute this Chosen People is entirely
opposed to the statement of the Bible -- even of the Bible which the Jews acknowledge, the Old
Testament of the Christians. The blessings of world possession, world rule, superior population,
commercial greatness, military power, constituted governments, "a great nation and a company of
nations" -- all of these means by which to spread light and healing among the nations -- were truly
promised to one people, to Israel, not to Judah. Judah's destiny was to be quite different. Very few Bible
readers ever note the distinction between the House of Israel and the House of Judah, yet this distinction
was marked from the time of Jacob; the prophets absolutely insist upon it. Israel seceded from Judah,
being unable to live with that people any longer. Israel's destiny took them out into the world, and if the
Bible be true, then Israel's destiny of greatness is being fulfilled in Israel, and not in Judah. The two
Houses are distinct to this day, although a future reunion, a spiritual reunion, is promised to come.
Yet the false idea that the Jews constitute All Israel has penetrated the Christian consciousness to
an alarming extent, so that when the Jewish press insists, as it does every week, "We gave you your
God, we gave you your Bible, we gave you your Christ," even Christian ministers cannot find an
answer. The answer is that the Old Testament is nine-tenths an Israelitish book, and not a Jewish book.
Abraham was not a Jew; Isaac was not a Jew; Jacob was not a Jew; Moses was not a Jew; Joshua was
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not a Jew; Gideon was not a Jew; Samuel was not a Jew; even Esther and Mordecai were not Jews, but
Benjamites; the majority of the prophets were not Jews, but Israelites. Upon the coming of Judah into
power, in the persons of David and Solomon, the misrule was so great that Israel seceded, and the
secession was sanctioned by the prophets. In the New Testament, Jesus Christ found his disciples in
Galilee, far out of Judea, and of them there was but one, Judas, whose name indicates that he was a Jew.
St. Paul was of the tribe of Benjamin, "the light tribe," which was left with Judah "for a light."
But there is a constant patter of preaching (the Russellites make it the great theme) that "the Jews
are to rule the world because it is so prophesied." The amazing blindness with which Christians have
regarded the open pages of their Bible is the only explanation of this one-sided teaching which is
confusing to the Christians and exceedingly dangerous to the Jews. In the Bible, Israel is the Chosen
People of Blessing, and the time is announced when Judah shall walk to Israel and recognize them and
become one with them. There is a chosen racial breed, a select seed, a superior strain of blood and soul
in the world, but it is not Judah. One thing, therefore, that Christians can do, as a contribution to the
solution of the Jewish Question, is to read their Bibles carefully.