The Jews Are Not the Chosen People

David Martin | The Daily Knight

The adorers of Jesus Crucified are the chosen people

Many today believe that the Jews are the “chosen people” forgetting that Christ himself repeatedly said that only those who follow him are chosen of the Father. 1 He said, “I am the way, and truth, and the life” (John 14:6), proving that he alone is the way to salvation. Without Christ one cannot be “chosen.”

In a March 7 interview with radio show host Shawn Ryan, America’s top exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger stirred considerable interest on the internet by saying that the Jews are not the chosen people.

“The mistake that people make is still thinking that the Jews are the chosen people. They were, but they rejected their inheritance. They refused to accept Christ” adding that the Jewish religion was a “leadup” to our “relationship to Christ.”

Fr. Ripperger speaks a pure sentence. Saying that the Jews are God’s chosen people is not only inaccurate but immoral because it detracts from Christ by dignifying the Jews who murdered him. It also dignifies modern-day Jews who spiritually murder him by their consent to the wicked doings of their forefathers. The loyal Jews of old were chosen, yes, but that ended 2000 years ago. 2

To be clear: God has no continuing covenant with the Jews. People forget that the chosen people of the Old Testament merely prefigured the chosen people of the New Testament, i.e. the loyal Catholics. As the exorcist says, the Jewish religion was “a leadup” to our “relationship with Christ.”

Hence the Jewish religion of today is not a religion of God. Judaism does not exist and cannot exist no more than a seed can exist once it becomes a tree. The seed of Judaism grew into Christianity so that what exists today is not Judaism but the legacy of the Pharisees who murdered the Christ out of envy (Mark 15:10).

Modern Judaism Is Not Connected with the Old Testament

That is to say, Judaism A.D. is not connected with the Old Testament since it rejects the Messiah who was prophesied throughout the Old Testament. For the whole point of the Old Testament was to honor and look forward to the coming of the Messiah. There is nothing in the Old Testament books that says, “Let us kill the Messiah when he comes.”

This was the conviction of the Pharisees and apostate Jews who had left the Jewish religion for the worship of false gods (devils). The Pharisees were no longer of the Jewish religion, and while they carried on their rant in the name of God their Father, Jesus told them who their father was: “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him.” (John 8:44)

The True Jews

The true Jews were the Apostles and friends of Christ who walked with him into the New Testament and who honored his Resurrection, but the Jews who rejected Christ were not of God, and as such, not of the Jewish religion. Their identifying themselves with Moses and Abraham was only a pretext to cover sin.

It was these Jewish apostates that established the Judaism we know today. The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia states:

"The Jewish religion as it is today traces its descent, without a break, through all the centuries, from the Pharisees."

The spoken tradition of the Pharisees was the Oral Torah, which expressed their murmurings against Christ. The written form of the Pharisaic tradition is the Babylonian Talmud, which hurls the most hateful and pornographic insults against Jesus Christ, even condemning him to Hell to boil in his own excrement for proving he was the Son of God. The Talmud, completed around 380 AD, is the highest authority of Judaism A.D. and forms the foundation of the Mishnah. 

The Jewish Temple Will Never be Rebuilt

Using the Bible, some argue that the Jewish temple will be rebuilt soon, but they’re hallucinating.  The Jewish temple will never be rebuilt. There is nothing in the Old Testament books that even begins to suggest this. The building of the temple mentioned in the Old Testament referred to the coming establishment of the Catholic Church and also the rebuilding of that Church shortly before Christ's Second Coming.

The Old Testament religion prefigured the New Testament religion to come. For instance, the prophetic references to “Israel,” “my vineyard,” or “my holy mountain” were a figure of the one True Church that Christ would establish under Peter (Mt. 16:18). The waters that miraculously issued forth from the Rock of Horeb (Exodus 17:6) prefigured the pure waters of Holy Tradition that would issue forth from the Rock of Peter – the Papacy.  

Modernist Bishops are Antisemitic

Even so, there are Catholic bishops today who argue that the Jews are God’s chosen people and that we therefore should make no attempt to convert them. Under the pretense of mercy these bishops behave like Nazis. Refusing to extend to Jews the divine invitation to partake in the Lord’s Banquet [Eucharist] is reminiscent of how the Nazis refused to let the Jews eat at their table but told them they must stay in their own prison camp and starve. 

Not attempting to convert the Jews is foreign to the mind of the Catholic Church. The Church teaches that Jews, as with any group outside the Faith, need conversion to Christ in order to be saved. The Jews are not special. The Church in its Good Friday liturgy always exhorted the faithful to 3 pray for "the faithless Jews," but today’s bishops do not pray for the Jews because they are antisemitic.

God Does Not Change

Some think that Christ carries a different message today than he did 2000 years ago, but his message never changes. For if He walked among the Jews today, He would echo the words of His servant Stephen, the first martyr of the Church, who told the Jews:

"You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you also. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers." (Acts 7: 51,52) 

In his day, Christ reprimanded the Jews for their obstinacy and blindness.

"You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar." (Mt. 23:33-35)

Some argue that Jews still await the coming of the Messiah, but if they don’t recognize the Messiah that their forefathers hung on the cross, they certainly won’t recognize him when he comes again. There exists but one Messiah, so they have their chance now to recognize the One Messiah of history, Jesus Christ, and to remember his words:

“No man comes to the Father, but by me.“ (John 14: 6)

1. When Christ told the woman at the well that “salvation is of the Jews” he simply meant that salvation at that time existed only within the confines of the Jewish religion. This prefigured how salvation would exist only within the Catholic Church after Christ’s Resurrection.

2. St. Paul says that “neither Gentile nor Jew” has any preeminence before God. Only those who live by faith in Christ are of God (Colossians 3:11).

3. To say that the Church should not pray for the conversion of Jews is to say that the Church for 2000 years was wrong. It was ex-priest, rapist, and LGBT abuser Gregory Baum who was commissioned by the Second Vatican Council to write the conciliar document Nostra Aetate, which exempts Jews from the need to convert to Christ.