Comment: Who can
condemn Israel for neglecting the responsibility they had to share God with
other nations? Well many do and this is the rage of the nations around her, Even
today. like the nations around her, Israel is as secular as the rest, still the
nations rage and seek her destruction. This rage is a battle of a few thousand
years and if you study the Holy Word of God you know this, (Wars and rumors of
wars are determined) but if you do not study the Bible, then simply you are an
adversary of Israel and of God also. Laughter and mocking fill the air with
people who openly reject God, and God looks down from His Throne in heaven upon
the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek Him.
There are none who do good, NO NOT ONE! Psalm 53.
Devotional: A question we might have is; Did Israel know
this, that as a nation chosen by God that they were to share God with other
nations? The answer is, YES! Psalm 67.
1 To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm.
A Song. God be merciful to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon
us. Selah 2 That Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among
all nations. 3 Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples
praise You. 4 Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You shall
judge the people righteously, and govern the nations on earth. Selah 5 Let
the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You. 6 Then
the earth shall yield her increase; God, our own God, shall bless us. 7 God
shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.
Once
again, the Church of Jesus Christ has a similar call from the One who sits in
the heavens, He is seated at the right hand of the Throne of God, He is Messiah
and does He have a message to the Church of today that is like that of His
message to Israel in her day? The answer is YES, again! Acts 1:4-8.
4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded
them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father,
"which," He said, "you have heard from Me; 5 for John
truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not
many days from now." 6 Therefore, when they had come together, they
asked Him, saying, "Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"
7 And He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons
which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive
power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me
in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
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