This is a parable about the love of G-d.

There was mother who bore two sons. She loved them fervently. They looked nothing like her, so to outsider eyes, her love for them was strange. One day a little boy came to live with her family and that boy looked more like her than her own sons. She had a mother’s heart, willing to love any child, and so she did. She loved the little boy like her own. And her sons treated the little boy like a brother. 

Soon after, the little boy began to do things to incriminate her sons. He wanted to take the place of her sons. In his heart he desired to have her love for himself. This upset the mother.  

Her sons were created by her and bore her DNA. They were a physical manifestation of her life; there was no way she could love another child MORE than her sons. But she had so much love in her heart, there was no way she would love another child LESS than her sons.  

She talked to the little boy in a way he would understand, so that he’d know what was expected of him. He apologized but his behavior did not change. His desire to always reap her love overshadowed his understanding of what awarded him her love in the first place.  

Let them who have ears to hear, hear.  

HaShem refers to Israel (the nation) as His first son and Yeshua is His only born son. There is no group of people who would ever replace them. He also said that a stranger who would submit to Him – as His sons were to do – and keep His Sabbath, that stranger would be grafted in and should be treated as a brother, a son of His own.  

HaShem will not love a stranger MORE than His sons who bore His DNA, BUT He will also not love them LESS. He will expect the once stranger to keep His laws, statutes, and commandments as He does the sons. He will communicate with them and provide for them both.  

If you come into relationship with HaShem and try to prove you are the “real” Israel or more knowledgeable of Him and more worthy of His love, then you’ve missed the point. You don’t know His heart, and you don’t seek to know His heart. You are seeking His word and the benefits of it. And because He operates on principle, if you keep His words, you’ll reap the benefits on earth. But you’ll be saddened in the next life because to dwell in His home, you must love Him with all your heart, mind, and soul. You cannot love HaShem and hate either one of His sons.