Shalom dear doves,

I was doing some 'house-cleaning' and I 'found' this:

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... In the final analysis, failing to know God as He
is, and having an improper view of ourselves, go hand
in hand, and are at the crux of every disorder of
mankind.
 

Do we know HIM as HE IS, as we ought?

One of the ways in which it has pleased the Lord to
communicate the knowledge of Himself is through His
conduct with Israel.

Nothing is more instructive in the way of God than in
His dealing with the people whom He calls the apple of
His eye, but now mourns as a father for a prodigal
son.

If God will go as far as to bring them nigh unto
death, in a severity that eclipses anything that we
could understand that God would allow or perform, in
order to fulfill His purposes in the earth, then how
far will He go with us as the Church?  "... MUCH
MORE".

Hebrews 12: (read whole chapter, especially ...)

21  And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I
exceedingly fear and quake:
22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city
of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an
innumerable company of angels,
23  To the general assembly and church of the
firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the
Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made
perfect,
24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and
to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better
things than that of Abel.

25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if
they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth,

MUCH MORE shall NOT WE escape, IF WE TURN AWAY from

him that speaketh from heaven:

26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath
promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth
only, but also heaven.
27  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the
removing of those things that are shaken, as of things
that are made, that those things which cannot be
shaken may remain.

28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be
moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29  For our God is a consuming fire.
 
 

How far will He go with the nations?

The lightness and frivolity that we presently have in
the Church ultimately stems from an inadequate
knowledge of God, both in His goodness and in His
severity.

"Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on
them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness,
if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also
shalt be cut off." Rom. 11:22
 

It is almost impossible for our souls to behold His
severity as well as His goodness, but if we will not
learn from the goodness of God, then we will have to
learn from His severity.

The false prophets of old always gave false comfort
and security to Israel by voicing the presumption, God
is NOT going to allow that to happen.  He is not going
to allow His own temple to be destroyed and His holy
city to be leveled.  Jews made of the temple and
Jerusalem a fetish, and a hoped-for security.  But
sadly, history has shown us what has happened to that
vain hope. God has allowed His temple to be destroyed,
His city to be laid waste, and His people to be exiled
over the face of the earth.

Who are we to tell God what He will allow?  By the
same principle, we are NOT going to forestall the
judgments of God by inviting and encouraging
immigrants to present-day Israel.

...
 

Israel has been chosen that the world might know the
true God.

Jewish history itself is the visible, experiential act
of revelation.  Israel is called to demonstrate to all
who want to see that the God of Israel is not a
philosophical concept, but the living God.

Israel is Gods testimony to the nations, particularly
His deliverance of her in her destitute and finally
broken condition, WHEN SHE WILL BE supernaturally
raised from it, and be restored to the Land.

We will then be able to distinguish the difference
between Israel bringing herself to the Land, and Gods
bringing her.  It will be the Zionist experiment of
1948, which was very commendable and impressive,
humanly speaking, as against the divine and
supernatural restoration that is to come.

This is the mystery of Israel and the Church.  This is
the final stroke of God that comes in the Last Days,
at the consummation of history, that raises the
nation, and brings in the millennial kingdom and the
King Himself, through the church, in order that,

"For from Him and through Him and to Him are all
things.  To Him be the glory forever. Amen."
(Rom. 11:36).

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And ... Amen.

Baruch HaShem.

David
 
 
 

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