The Messianic promise and its fulfillment has always been the hope of Israel. Two thousand years ago a child was born in Bethlehem. This was the very place where the Jewish prophet Micah, 500 years before, had foretold the Messiah would be born.
When the child became a man, multitudes of jewish people recognized this one named Yeshua (Jesus) as the promised Messiah. In fact, for the first ten years, all of His followers were Jewish. They understood that the Messiah would inaugurate the New Covenant between God and Israel as prophesied by Jeremiah.
"Behold the days are coming." declares the Lord, "when I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt..." Jeremiah 31:31-32
Another aspect of this promise was that God would bring Gentiles into this covenant with Israel.
"It is too small a thing that you should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make you a light of the nations, so that My Salvation may reach to the end of the earth." Isaiah 49:6
God loves the Jewish people with an everlasting love, and through the Messiah, God has demonstrated His love for the Gentiles as well.
For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one, and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall... Ephesians 2:14
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