Yeshua has remarks about himself being the shepherd and having folds, yet many of his followers, perhaps too many, carve out an insensitive room for whatever group they align themselves with.  Throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament we find that the Jewish people could not bring themselves to admit that the neighboring nations were also family members.  Many Christians are doing that same thing today in the 21st century.   God, in that mindset, is the sovereign of those who fear God and comply with his instructions.  Every student of the Bible is familiar with the facts:  that Israel failed miserably to keep a variety of covenants and turned to idolatry over and over again.  The current state of the Holy Land is witness to the fact that the glory has departed, akin to the demise of the Israelite nation during the time of Eli the priest.  John, the writer of the fourth gospel and three letters, assures us that believers, unbelievers, and all human beings have respectively the same light, the same Savio,  and the same advocate.

See for yourself;

“That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world.” (John 1:9, AKJV)

“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.” (John 3:19, NASB)

1) My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 2) and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.” (1 John 2:1-2, NASB)