With whom did God deal from the call of Abraham onward?
From the call of Abraham around 2000 B.C., God dealt only with the Jewish people, His covenant nation, with only rare exceptions. He called them out, set them aside, and made them different from surrounding tribes, forbidding intermarriage and separation from other nations.
Les explains that beginning with the call of Abram, or Abraham, back in 2000 B.C., God called aside the favored nation Israel. From that point, God dealt only with the Jew, with exceptions that were precious few and far between. It was Jew only—His covenant people. God called them out, set them aside, and made them different so they were never to have anything to do with the tribes and nations around them, and they were not to intermarry with them.