ISRAEL -- NOTHING LIKE IT IN HISTORY
"I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people." Micah 2:12
"I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people." Micah 2:12
I read this article several weeks ago and thought it was a good reminder to all of us as to why God has such a heart for Israel:
In all the records of kings and nations, is there anything to match the history of the Jews? Never was there any other such high calling with such deep sinning; never such unique privilege with such big responsibility.
Never has any race or nation suffered such recurrent slaughterings and scatterings without disintegrating into extinction. If the Jewish people could have retained at least some small territorial foothold somewhere on earth, there might have been some explanation for their continual survival. But for over two thousand years they have had no throne, no kingdom, no colony, no land, no city, no laws of their own. YET THEY ARE STILL HERE!
From the time of Xerxes about 500 B.C., down to the demon-possessed Adolph Hitler, they have been hounded, tortured, burned alive, or buried alive together in hundreds or thousands by maddened Jew haters determined to stamp them out completely. YET THEY ARE STILL HERE!
Today they are back in their own land -- "Eretz Yizrael" -- with their own government, their own laws, their own legal system, their own coins, their own language and their own institutions. After an historical hiatus of 2,300 years, they are again acknowledged by the nations as a self-governing state. There has never been anything like it in all of history.
What does this say to you and me? It says that God is sovereign in history. Is says that whatever God may allow to happen in His present, permissive will, He overrules all so as ultimately to fulfill His purposive will. It says that God does not violate the free will of men and nations, while at the same time He overrules all to a final, righteous outcome. NOTHING can ultimately defeat God. His purpose ALWAYS triumphs in the end! -- J. Sidlow Baxter -- from HOW GREAT THOU ART -- Multnomah
Brothers, God is sovereign. As He loves Israel, HE LOVES YOU! A good reminder on this 19th day of March! Pray for peace in Jerusalem. -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK
Digging Deeper: Proverbs 19; Joshua 1-3; Mark 16
Dig This Quote: There is always time to look up to Him for His smile. -- F. B. Meyer
Determined Digging: Level 1 -- Psalm 46:10; Level 2 -- Psalm 46:1-7
Never has any race or nation suffered such recurrent slaughterings and scatterings without disintegrating into extinction. If the Jewish people could have retained at least some small territorial foothold somewhere on earth, there might have been some explanation for their continual survival. But for over two thousand years they have had no throne, no kingdom, no colony, no land, no city, no laws of their own. YET THEY ARE STILL HERE!
From the time of Xerxes about 500 B.C., down to the demon-possessed Adolph Hitler, they have been hounded, tortured, burned alive, or buried alive together in hundreds or thousands by maddened Jew haters determined to stamp them out completely. YET THEY ARE STILL HERE!
Today they are back in their own land -- "Eretz Yizrael" -- with their own government, their own laws, their own legal system, their own coins, their own language and their own institutions. After an historical hiatus of 2,300 years, they are again acknowledged by the nations as a self-governing state. There has never been anything like it in all of history.
What does this say to you and me? It says that God is sovereign in history. Is says that whatever God may allow to happen in His present, permissive will, He overrules all so as ultimately to fulfill His purposive will. It says that God does not violate the free will of men and nations, while at the same time He overrules all to a final, righteous outcome. NOTHING can ultimately defeat God. His purpose ALWAYS triumphs in the end! -- J. Sidlow Baxter -- from HOW GREAT THOU ART -- Multnomah
Brothers, God is sovereign. As He loves Israel, HE LOVES YOU! A good reminder on this 19th day of March! Pray for peace in Jerusalem. -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK
Digging Deeper: Proverbs 19; Joshua 1-3; Mark 16
Dig This Quote: There is always time to look up to Him for His smile. -- F. B. Meyer
Determined Digging: Level 1 -- Psalm 46:10; Level 2 -- Psalm 46:1-7
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