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HOGWASH.

NONSENSE.

I’ve never found it fruitful, nor sensible to try and stuff God into my preconcieved tiny tidy lil ol human box.

Your perspective has no Biblical-Whole-counsel-of-God-of-the-whole-of-Scripture

explanation

for the Rev 4:4 Thrones of the Patriarchs AND the Thrones of the Disciples.

That perspective kind of presumes that one has been flushed down the theological/priority toilet.

God does not play favorites among His people, however, the Bible does tell us that God's chosen people are the Jewish race because they were the only ones to obey Him in lieu of other gods.

Deuteronomy 7:6 says, "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession." This does not mean they are automatically "saved" and will go to Heaven. In order to assurance of eternal life in heaven, one must believe in God's Son, Jesus. Because of God's Promise to redeem the Jews in the end times, Israel will turn to her Messiah and be saved. So, in the meantime, any believers in Jesus are "grafted in" and may partake of the Tree of Life.

Why did God choose the Jewish people?

His instructions to mankind, as a whole, had been challenged by a united rebellion of the people against Him at Babel (Genesis 11:1-9), and He then forcibly confounded their languages and divided them into distinct nations.
His promise of a coming Redeemer to reconcile a lost world to Himself required that God should become man some day and He would thus have to be born into a particular nation and people. Such a nation would have to be prepared, both by divine revelation and national experience, to be the nation through which the Savior would come.
All of the nations formed as a result of the judgment at Babel were already in rebellion against God and unsuitable for this purpose.
God, therefore, chose one man, Abraham, to establish a new nation through which "all families of the earth would be blessed."

Not only are the people of Israel special and God's chosen people, but the land is also special. In Deuteronomy 11:12, we read, "It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end." God is working out Israel's salvation from the time of the Old Testament. He desired the Messiah to appear there, and that the church would be formed there.

He has a sound plan for His people and His land. God is bringing about a profound spiritual change to the people, so God's eternal plan will then be worked out for Israel, for the Church, and for the world. It will be worked out in the physical land of Israel and with the people who have returned from all the nations of the earth. The end results will be an eternal age of peace and blessing for all mankind.

So no, the Jews are not "chosen for alleged marks of favor not accorded to Christians". In fact, I would say it's just the opposite. Christians have not been persecuted, run out of nations at the point of a sword or gun, hunted down, and singled out for extermination throughout history like the Jews have.

And, by the way, there is only one way to salvation: Jesus Christ. And there is no group of people to whom that does not apply.