"Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, When I restore the fortunes of my people.
(2) The notion that the Jewish people, through their prophets, carried forward a development-process, gradually arriving at a conviction of what is right or wrong in the relationships between man and man, or man and God is totally false.  They never "discovered" any of the sacred truths and requirements of true religion; on the other hand, all was revealed to them by God Himself.  In particular, this is true of monotheism, along with everything else.  Monotheism was not discovered by the Jews through a long development struggle; their ancestor Abraham paid tithes to Melchezedek, "Priest of God Most High."