Why didn't God reveal that he was the trinity to the jews?

[Polycarp1]

God’s creation, God’s rules, God’s plan!

 

[livingwordunity]

In the context of widespread polytheism, he first had to firmly establish his oneness and singularity, before anyone was ready to consider a trinity of persons.

I think that is the perfect answer.

 

[prodigalson2011]

He did.

Read the Gospels.

The Hebrews had long suspected something along that line.
The “wisdom books” of the Old Testament abundantly speak of the Wisdom of God as if the Wisdom was God. Without Christ’s clear statements about this, which came later, the Hebrew writers were careful not to explicitly say the Wisdom, or Truth, was a divine person,
but they came very close.

When Gabriel told Mary she would conceive by the Holy Spirit, she didn’t seem confused by this. The idea of the Holy Spirit must have already whispered among the Jews.
The phrase “Holy Spirit” is used vaguely somewhere in the Old Testament, but I don’t remember where. .

In the context of widespread polytheism, he first had to firmly establish his oneness and singularity, before anyone was ready to consider a trinity of persons.

Genesis 1: 26 Then God said: Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the tame animals, all the wild animals, and all the creatures that crawl on the earth.

Genesis 18: 1 The LORD appeared to Abraham by the oak of Mamre, as he sat in the entrance of his tent, while the day was growing hot. 2Looking up, he saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them; and bowing to the ground, 3he said: “Sir, if it please you, do not go on past your servant.

Peace

He did. The Apostles were all Jews as were most of the earliest Christians.

The above are all excellent answers which could be summed up together thusly: divine revelation was a gradual process that took place over the course of about 1500 years (if my chronology is correct?). Hints of the Trinity are present from the very beginning, in Genesis, and become more suggestive throughout the course of salvation history, culminating in the final, complete revelation of Christ. All revelation came first to the Jews, and then through the Jews (specifically the Apostles) to the Gentiles.

 

[Bahman]

Why didn’t God revel that he was the trinity to Adam?

 

[Sultan_Of_Swing]

I don’t think revealing the Trinity all at once to a nation struggling with polytheism would have been the best of ideas… Especially since the earliest Jews seemed more henotheistic than monotheistic.

The hints are certainly there in the Old Testament, but as others have stated, God had to primarily assert His oneness to the Jewish people, and Him being the only and supreme God.