Father's Choice

Bahar in Hebrew means to try or to choose.

It may mean "to choose after testing." As a nation, Israel was, and still is, the chosen people.

Further, their Sovereign, the Messiah, is the Chosen Servant.

Elohim (Almighty) chooses His chosen ones for a certain task, for a High Calling, to comply with His conditions He laid down for them, namely to be "His treasured possession."

Above all the peoples on the face of the earth, He chose them forever.

Read in following texts: Exodus 19:5-6, and now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples – for all the earth is Mine – ‘and you shall be to Me a reign of priests and a set-apart nation.’ Those are the words which you are to speak to the children of Israel.”

Deuteronomy 7:6-7, “For you are a set-apart people to Yahuah your Elohim. Yahuah your Elohim has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples on the face of the earth. “Yahuah did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more numerous than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples.

Deut 10:15, “Yahuah delighted only in your fathers, to love them. And He chose their seed after them, you above all peoples, as it is today.

Deut 14:2, for you are a set-apart people to Yahuah your Elohim, and Yahuah has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deut 26:18, “And Yahuah has caused you to proclaim today to be His people, a treasured possession, as He has spoken to you, and to guard all His commands.

 Psalm 135:4, For Yah has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His treasured possession.

Isaiah 41:8 “But you, Israel, are My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham My friend, and Isaiah 44:1-2, “But now hear, O Israel My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen. Thus said Yahuah who made you and formed you from the womb, who helps you, ‘Do not fear, O Jacob My servant, and Yeshurun (straight one or the upright one), whom I have chosen.

In Isaiah 59:21; Yahuah said His covenant with Jacob (Israel) is for his descendants, to his descendants descendants, "from this time and FOREVER."

We find it more clearly in the New Testament, namely Ephesians 1:4, which says that He has chosen us in Messiah "to be set-apart & blameless" and 2 Thessalonians 2:13, but we ought to give thanks to Elohim always for you, brothers, beloved by the Master, because Elohim from the beginning chose you to be saved – in set-apartness of Spirit, and belief in the truth – Because of this High Calling we understand why "many are called, but few are chosen" Matthew 20:16, Matthew 22:14.

That is why there are few who find it - Matthew 7:14 & Luke 13:23-30.

Israel was "chosen in the furnace of affliction" (Isaiah 48:10), and it is no different for the Messianic believer today (Matthew 7:14).

Paul says in Romans 11:1; I say then, has Elohim rejected His people? Let it not be! For I also am of Israel and in verse 26; so all Israel shall be saved as it is been written (written in the Torah).

Thank you Yah for calling us!