Around 1400 BC, God led His chosen people to begin a miraculous nation. Around AD 1600, God led another chosen people to begin a miraculous nation. The first people eventually disobeyed God to their peril. The second people are following the same course.
God’s sovereign plan for the world involved a special people who were led long ago into a land filled with abundant resources. There, He would give them victory over the land’s inhabitants and blessings beyond measure. All they were asked to do was trust Him, live by His laws and precepts, and honor Him as their One God. As long as those conditions prevailed, their nation of Israel would grow and prosper in health, power, and material abundance.
Over the centuries that followed, Israel’s obligations to God’s requirements for success were met with mixed results at best. Soon sinful and corrupt leaders led the people away from godly living. Their culture was perverted by selfish pleasures, and disobedience to the Lord became the norm. They lost their faith and disregarded God’s promises. Restoration to God’s ways and his willingness to forgive were always on the table but were rejected. Enemy nations began to test Israel’s national security and eventually defeated them. Ultimately, they ceased being a nation, and foreigners occupied their former territory for 2,000 years.
God’s sovereign plan for the world involved another special people who were led four centuries ago into a land filled with abundant resources. There, He would give them victory over the land’s inhabitants and blessings beyond measure. All they were asked to do was trust Him, live by His New Covenant of freedom and grace in Christ, and honor Him as their One God. As long as those conditions prevailed, their nation of America would grow and prosper in health, power, and material abundance.
Over the years that followed, America’s obligations to God’s requirements for success were met with mixed results at best. Soon sinful and corrupt leadership led the people away from godly living. Their culture was perverted by selfish pleasures, and disobedience to the Lord became the norm. They lost their faith and disregarded God’s promises. Restoration to God’s ways and his willingness to forgive were always on the table but were rejected. Enemy nations began to test America’s national security.
America is on the precipice of the exact eventuality of Israel. We are poised to be be defeated, lose our sovereignty, and be occupied by our enemies. God has given us the whole Bible, His Holy Word, as a clear account of Israel’s blessings and failures as well as the gospel message for the abundant life avoiding personal and national catastrophe. A window of opportunity of short duration is still available for repentance and restoration. Will we choose the right path or the path of Israel?
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