Hello, friends! I’m back with a Genesis 12:1-6 note on here, found in page 6 of my NKJV Bible, page 8 of my NASB Bible, page 13 of my VOICE copy (with a note sandwiched between verses 3 and 4) and page 14 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition). Tonight, I’d love to share how Israel has been a blessing to me, especially in the context of Christ Himself, the greatest Jew ever. First, though, let me say this: How have most of them been so cold-hearted and hateful towards Christ and everyone else? And when you try to preach the word of Jesus to them or someone else who may or may now have been what one might consider a Christian nation, how can you expect to have any success when most of the time, Christ’s Name is used to destroy the good in each of them? (Comment your opinion below!)
Anyway, I think Israel’s pretty rad, even though their leadership system usually convinces their citizens to harden themselves against the Lord Jesus and also the marginalized around the world. And if you’ve read an earlier post I wrote back in February, you’d be able to get a clue what I’m saying. This is not what Abraham had intended. Indeed, Jesus said that Abraham didn’t kill anyone in John 8:40. Still, I loved that they made the biggest Harlem Shake video in early 2013, 70,000 people were in it! But don’t look at the comments; most of them are divisive, favoring either them or their neighbors, promoting hostility as if God had set it up. This is not what He did when He took Abraham’s descendants out of Egypt almost 600 years later. They say that Jesus has bones in this world still, but that’s incredibly infuriating to me because He lives today, and none of His bones were ever broken (John 19:36, also Exodus 12:46, Numbers 9:12, and Psalm 34:20, according to the footnote of the VOICE copy I have in page 1,321). Even so, my county that I live in has a Jewish sheriff ✡ and I’m praying he becomes Christian so that there’d be a huge homecoming for him (Romans 11:12; the NASB renders the last several words there as “how much more will their fulfillment be!”) — I’d love to have revival last in my metropolitan area.
The footnote v of page 14 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy on verse 3 here is worth mentioning. It says that to look disfavorably on the Jews is inviting God’s displeasure, but you don’t need to worry about displeasure from God if you’re already right with Him, because if that’s the case, you have a life of faith, and He’s thoroughly pleased with you because of this; see Hebrews 11:6. Too bad the Jews have been opposed too many times since Abraham left his hometown, though, yet in most cases, it’s because of their generation’s disobedience to God, so that He would oppose them due to His Name being tarnished because of them (Romans 2:24, also Isaiah 52:5 and Ezekiel 36:20-22). It can be difficult sometimes to not look down on them if you’re a Gentile (non-Israelite) like me, even if you’re aware they have land again. It was restored to them in 1948, and that was because God had said they should all come back in one day in Isaiah 66:8. And thank God that happened; it’s been almost 71 years since then.
Jesus also wants you to be a blessing to others, too. We should all be the light of the world as Jesus said in Matthew 5:14. It’s not worth it to have darkness snuff out anything. But thank God that John 1:5 says it cannot overcome light 😌 I’m reminded of this in one of Hillsong United’s earlier records, in the first track, Point Of Difference. There’s videos of the song and/or its lyrics on YouTube, and I’m using that song (and also what Jesus said a few verses later about not trivializing Him, as the Message puts it) to pray into the Holy Spirit and become more rooted in Him. I’m doing this with several of their records, actually, including the new People record that came out last Friday. And on an unrelated subject, Avengers: Endgame came out Thursday evening, too, so go watch it if you haven’t already. I’ve seen it, and love it a LOT! But I won’t spoil it for you. By the way, Jesus is descended from Abraham, so Israel was to be a blessing to the world as God had commanded Abraham to do, but most of them never were thankful to Him for that, but they were conceited like crazy — well, you’ll have to read in later books to find out; I won’t post a lot of information yet. But if anyone is in Christ, they’re of Abraham’s family (Galatians 3:7), so they’re able to bless others well (Galatians 3:8-9).
Another thing I forgot to mention is that people of all nations have cursed Israel before, so God wasn’t happy about that. But I don’t think that has to be a generational thing, yet I really wish neither had pretended to honour Him by making right-wing political stuff happen (or make any politics happen, actually) — I want to eliminate the nationalism that is more or less aligned with Jesus’ knowledge of the Jews accepting the antichrist in the future (John 5:43), and Jesus doesn’t approve of him, as I’m sure you know. But the Church has become the very thing the first century-Christians had sworn to oppose persistently, and as a result, Christ is calling His people out of all of them to make many house churches. Even the good churches, like the one I’m going to (at least it’s been addressing the hateful correction and fake maturity problems I’ve been facing lately, for I want neither of that in my life) — those ones will need to become house churches sooner or later, too. And due to this, I’m not expecting the Holy Spirit to actually be glorified in any of them. Also, I found something in my Operation World prayer book where, in the list of issues in the U.S., many bad things happen. One issue I found is that evangelical stuff is often what’s passed up as Christianity by everyone. What I find interesting is that unlike most of the other parts of the prayer book, these people passing off deception as truth in this manner (remember that they are very unwelcoming to the immigrants and refugees and are willing to persecute all who wish to do what is right) are not mentioned as ones who deserve our prayers. Because these people are so antagonistic to Christ, they will face God’s wrath in the future, just as 1 Thessalonians 2:16 had said the anti-Christian Jews were under. Abraham took his wife and their nephew, Lot, out of his hometown… I kind of want to do the same with me, my brother, and our families and friends, so that none of us would be defeated by our disobedience to God’s command in Revelation 18:4, and I want to honour Him in everything. I don’t want anyone to be hunted down by political jerks or under God’s holy ban, including those I know! But for now, I must say that we shouldn’t let politics get the best of us.
I’m going to end this with a hilarious meme I saw years ago, for in just 75 minutes…
Sorry that I didn’t get all parts of the text in this one 😅 see you later!
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