Isaiah 45:4

Cyrus, God's Instrument

³ I will give you the treasures of darkness
and riches from secret places,
so that you may know that I, Yahweh,
the God of Israel call you by your name.
⁴ I call you by your name,
because of Jacob My servant
and Israel My chosen one.
I give a name to you,
though you do not know Me.
⁵ I am Yahweh, and there is no other;
there is no God but Me.
I will strengthen you,
though you do not know Me,

Chosen One

Israel

Jacob

No

Isaiah 41:8-9

But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
descendant of Abraham, My friend—

Acts 17:23

For as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed:

TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.

Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

Isaiah 44:1

“And now listen, Jacob My servant,
Israel whom I have chosen.

Exodus 19:5-6

Now if you will listen to Me and carefully keep My covenant, you will be My own possession out of all the peoples, although all the earth is Mine,

Isaiah 43:3-4

For I Yahweh your God,
the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior,
give Egypt as a ransom for you,
Cush and Seba in your place.

Isaiah 43:14

This is what the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says:

Because of you, I will send to Babylon
and bring all of them as fugitives,
even the Chaldeans in the ships in which they rejoice.

Isaiah 44:28-1

who says to Cyrus, “My shepherd,
he will fulfill all My pleasure”
and says to Jerusalem, “She will be rebuilt,”
and of the temple, “Its foundation will be laid.”

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Jeremiah 50:17-20

Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions.
The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria;
the last one who crushed his bones
was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Matthew 24:22

Unless those days were limited, no one would survive. But those days will be limited because of the elect.

Mark 13:20

Unless the Lord limited those days, no one would survive. But He limited those days because of the elect, whom He chose.

Romans 9:6

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for, but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,

Galatians 4:8-9

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

Ephesians 2:12

At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don’t know God.