God chose men to work out His purposes; men like Abraham, and Moses, Samuel and David, prophets like Isaiah, Jeremiah and Daniel, men who would all play a part in revealing God’s history of redeeming mankind, a history pointing to the Messianic Hope.
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. Isaiah 43: 1