Jews were God’s chosen people. They did hold the oracles—that is, they had Scripture; they had God working through their people. You look at the covenants as you go through Adam, Noah, Abraham, and so on—the covenants there in the Old Testament leading up to the new covenant with Jesus—and you see God’s chosen people being part of those covenants and sometimes faithful, sometimes unfaithful, ultimately unfaithful and needing a divine Messiah, Jesus, to finish the work, which we now rest in as the