Added: Nov 22, 2008
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In light of today's world events, it is essential to understand why God set aside Israel from all other nations, and that he is not prejudiced, or biased in that association. The Christian message always suffers in regions where antisemitism has taken root. Lets begin by establishing the fact that God didn't actually choose an existing nation when he struck a covenant with Abraham. God had recently judged the entire world of nations with the Great Flood, when he called unto Abraham to leave his native land of Ur, and embark on a journey into another land. Abraham was born only about 400 years after the great flood, indicating that the world's population at the time of the calling of God was quite small. In fact, Noah died only two years before Abraham was born. In reality, there wasn't any nations with established and defined borders such as is common today. There only existed a network of city-states. It was just such colonies as these that Nimrod established a system of defensive alliances for, thus enabling him the capacity to enforce a consolidation into a one world order! Nimrod was born only about 250 years earlier than Abraham. It became Satan's scheme to compel all the tribes of the earth to "come together", to conform to a centralized and uniform system of religion, culture, and economic geopolitical union. All these city-state and tribal regions were involved in pagan polytheism. Nimrod was even worshipped as the manifested son of God, or sun god. Among these city states were Erech, Accad, Larsa, Babel, Fara, Kish, Lagash, Eridu, Nippur, and Ur. It was from out of the city of Ur, that God called Abraham for the purpose of constituting a nation to be a testimony of the one true God! Genesis 12:3 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy own fathers house, unto a land that I will show thee: This is the Abrahamic Covenant. God could have chosen anyone he wished to become the Father of a new nation to be the vehicle of his testimony. Maybe he did call others. The Bible doesn't relate any info about whether anyone else was called upon to father a new nation, but one thing is for certain; if anyone else was called they didn't respond the way Abraham did. Abraham obeyed, and left Ur, and departed from the Pagan world to follow God. So, in essence, God did not choose Israel, he chose Abram, and Abram chose to accept. It is noteworthy to remember that the name of Israel only came into existance when God changed Jacob's name to Israel. Genesis 12:2-3 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and I will curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall ALL families of the earth be blessed. In this covenant, God pronounces blessings for all people through the action that he and Abraham have entered into agreement on. Now, does that sound like God favors one people over another in so far as his love and compassion is concerned? Indeed not. God loves every nation, and every tribe, and every family. It was expedient for God to choose someone to embody the lineage of his intended blessings. The great irony of God having a "chosen nation", is that if God hadn't chosen someone, somewhere, sometime, then; nobody could ever be the benefactor of an all encompassing love that God wishes to bless us with! Regular subscribers will remember from October's newsletter that God foreordained from before creation that he would manifest himself into the human seed pool of nations, to become the expressed manifestation of God's love for all mankind. By entering into the covenant with an obedient Abraham, God was in fact keeping his word! The great concern and mystery to me is not that he chose who he chose, but that he would choose at all! Thanks be to God for choosing anyone, anytime, anywhere! This choice proves that God is love. This choosing by God further shows that he loves lost people just as much as he loves obedient people. After all, the Abrahamic Covenant instituted a plan whereby all people could be blessed through their own freedom to choose to accept God's manifestant. II Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. So then, in our modern world of nation states, we need to be mindful of the explosive nature of ethnic undercurrents, which Satan utilizes in his pursuit to destroy that ages old testimony of National Israel to all the gentile nations of the world.
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