God’s Election for Your Fallen Family: Never Too Late! by Dr. Jeff Mirus 

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Jan 16, 2024

Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org.

The Old Testament is not only the story of God’s election of the Jewish people to be the special bearers of His law and His promises; it is also a sign of God’s singularity and power to all the nations of the world. Moreover, it is an ongoing story which demands recapitulation at times when the Jews have abandoned their fidelity to their Covenant with God and are suffering for it. Perhaps the most concise reminder of God’s Covenant with the Jews is found in chapter 9 of the Book of Nehemiah—which recounts one of several periods in the history of the Chosen People when all that they had forgotten about God’s special election was rediscovered and proposed again, in times of trouble, for a renewed commitment.

It is amazing how quickly the remembrance of the exodus from Egypt, the reception of the Law, and the entry into the Promised Land faded from memory among the Jews as time passed. The books of Kings and Chronicles recount a history in which there are more bad Jewish kings than good, with frequent rejection of the One God in favor of the pagan practices of the surrounding “peoples”. This actually began in the reign of Solomon himself—the very son of David—who chose many wives from among the pagan peoples and so erected places of worship for them to honor their own “gods”.  …

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