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The belief that Israel is a nation before God forever is one held almost fanatically by many professing Christians, especially Christians of a premillennial dispensational persuasion. In fact, to deny that the modern “State of Israel” (as she is called) located in the Middle East is the people of Go
And so there are many such expressions in this book which do not ring true. Israel as God’s peculiar people, the product of His grace, the wonder, faith, the promise — all these play no part in this history. Perhaps the root of the trouble in this book lies, on the one hand, in the attempt to write
Israel's Old Testament World - - -
Consider that this tree is Israel -- the church. Set now this people before your eye as to the relation it sustained to its God, as to the history it had made and as to the state in which Christ found it. Israel the Lord had chosen to be a special people unto Himself, above all people that were upon
In studying the history of Israel, therefore, we must be careful to distinguish, as it were, between Israel and Israel -- that is, between natural and spiritual Israel. The former lived, as we say, in the "sphere of the covenant." But God's love, God's promises, God's compassion, God's covenant -- a
Israel was a kingdom of priests and an holy nation (Ex. 19:6). She was the light of the nations; an exalted nation because of righteousness (Prov. 14:34); unto her nations ran, and would run, because of the Lord her God (Is. 55:5). Yet Israel had nothing of which to boast, for she was in herself a s
The world of the patriarchs through the judges (about 2000–1100 BC) falls into an era known as the “Bronze Age,” whereas the time of the kingdom of Israel up until the New Testament (about 1050–0 BC) is called the “Iron Age.” The name of each era designates which metals were used to dominate the anc
The whole history of the world is centered on the good of the Church. (Rom. 8:28) God established Israel in the Promised Land. This makes us think of our hope for the final Home God prepares for us in Heaven. Are you living daily with this hope in your heart? Read/sing Psalters 218:3 and 220:3. Janu
Israel's king supreme, its lawgiver and redeemer (as borne by Jehovah, the last two offices are included in the first) was Jehovah. This was indeed Israel's mark of distinction. "For ask," so spake Moses in one of his addresses, "now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day t
(Ex. 32: 7, 8; 33: 12-23). An entire generation of Israel shall never enter into the rest because of their unbelief (Heb. 3: 14-19). b. Still, Israel is the elect people of God, a chosen genera- tion, a royal priesthood. an holy nation, called out of the darkness and slavery of Egypt under the bloo