Israel, Fitting the Plan when people allow it

From the start of the universe the awesome giving and protecting  God did have a Plan. But there was man who doubted the rightfulness of the Creator so God did five humanity the allowance to prove it had it to the better end. He had never to be intended to be a dictator, but wanted to be a loving Father. As such He would also liked to be recognised and spoken too. His most beloved son, Jeshua (Jesus) loved his Father and tried to show the world the love of Him and told us to pray to his Father as “Our Father, who is in heaven.”

More than ones God had to face the rebelling creations. Even when they liked to be called People of god, the Israelites more than ones also went against their owner. In history we have seen many times that people revolted against God, but every time He showed His patience. In history God’s peoplewere conquered, taken captive, killed, enslaved, and so forth and so on, but when you look carefully you shall notice that whatever happened God was always with them and when they themselves wanted He was willing to step in and help them.

First century Iudaea Province (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

When time was ripe God did not want to wait any more to send His son to give the world a better prospect. It could take it or leave it. Many did not want to take it. As was planned a peace offering was presented to the Most High God of all, the God of gods. He took on the offering and accepted Jesus as the most complete peace offering. Now He does not need any other offer any more. He only demands that people would turn to Him now and accept His son Jesus, the son of man Jeshua form Nazareth. He allowed Jeshua to be His only mediator, because in him He had found a man who really understood men, because he was one of them, a real son of men. Jesus was willing to come up for the poor, the ill and all those in need. Not only for his fellow Jews? No they had proven they were stubborn and still wanted to go their own way. As long as many of them did not want to repent and accept that Jesus was the Messiah, a saviour born for the whole world, he could not do much for them.

As Jew, Jesus, a man of special capacity and with an outstanding personality, is part of that group of people in the seed of Abraham. He too is part of the chosen, a star in the sky, which brightens up the world and shows everyone over there the way to go.  In him we shall be able to find the best manager and accomplisher of the Word of God

The world still went its own way. After two thousand years still there are lots of people who do not want to see. God is patient and keeps looking down at the world. After that His people were “cleansed” and the world tried to wipe them out, God let the ‘heathen’ people to take care that God’s People could come into their own land Israel. It was allowed to grow, but God’s People did not want to recognise the Hand of God, so they had to feel that they have to earn the land. The Holy Land may be theirs, but they shall have to learn to accept all of God His Creations. Believers, other believers and non-believers, they all make part of the Creation of God. He is it that allows everything to exist. People should not doubt why God allows so much. He has given the man to prove himself.

As Adam and Eve did not want to accept the authority of Jehovah God, today even in Israel there are many who do not want to accept that Higher Authority. They prefer as human beings to exclude other human beings from their world, though they have received their live from the Most High God themselves. They want to own the whole world and be the boss in all situations. They are not prepared to accept Jesus as their King. For the time being God allows them to try to do it on their own way. But He shall not wait for ever. There shall come a moment that God shall give His son the task to return to the world and to judge it. Men may fail, but Jesus nor his Father will. Jesus has proven to be righteous and God is the most righteous of all. And God loving people will be justified. Those who love God and His Word, receive the signs and they shall know the one to follow and everyone who shall believe in this son of God shall be justified, even when they could not be justified by the Mosaic Law.

“38 “Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. 39 Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.” (Acts 13:38-39 NIV)

“4  Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.” (Deuteronomy 6:4-8 NIV)

Jehovah who appeared to Abram in the first of a series of visions, and bade him leave the country with his family, promising to make of him a great nation, is still going to provide that great nation.

“1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”” (Genesis 12:1-3 NIV)

God renewed His promise on several occasions and showed His People how His promise would come to fulfilment. The sacredness of Palestine in the esteem of the Jews is partly accounted for by the fact that it was the cradle and sepulcher of their Patriarchs and their “Promised Land” or Ereẓ Yisrael.

“It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.” (Deuteronomy 11:12 NIV)

“The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.” (Zechariah 2:12 NIV)

“I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.” (Joel 3:2 NIV)

Having tied the Words of God in our heads we do not have to be afraid even when we see all the trouble going on in the Land of Israel. As we see how people are destroying this world, we can form an idea that God is not letting to have His creation to be destroyed, so time shall come near. Now it is up to us to be patient and to accept that stupid human beings want still to go their own way, which would be worthless. We can and should try to protect the environment and we should try to show them other ways to get to a world of peace worth living in. We also should show them that if they do not take care of this world, they shall not be able to destroy the world, but destroy their possibility to live nicely.

The world shall have to be careful and should be aware that it can fall apart. Not only children getting against their parents, also religions against religions, would be some of the signs which would show up when the time was near. We can notice them or we can ignore them. We can be aware of what is happening in the world and react accordingly. No matter how you turn it, people would have to know they shall have to  surrender to the one to whom God has given the right to rule the earth. And Yes, also the Jews, the Israelites, they shall have to be humble enough to give it all in god His hands and to face His son, admitting that he is the only right one to take in the throne of Jerusalem, God’s City.

It may look as if the world is going mad and that it is full of evil. Many people live in fear of terrorists. We have to face many global problems like global warming, financial insecurity and minority groups that rise to power at several places.As in the time of Zecharia the burden of the word of Jehovah shall always be on the land. When to Jehovah shall be the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel. Jehovah will drive those out who do not belong there.

“1  The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus—for the eyes of men and all the tribes of Israel are on the LORD— 2 and upon Hamath too, which borders on it, and upon Tyre and Sidon, though they are very skilful. 3 Tyre has built herself a stronghold; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets. 4 But the Lord will take away her possessions and destroy her power on the sea, and she will be consumed by fire. 5 Ashkelon will see it and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, and Ekron too, for her hope will wither. Gaza will lose her king and Ashkelon will be deserted.” (Zechariah 9:1-5 NIV)

Our futures seem so unpredictable, especially as violence and crime rise – even in our own neighbourhoods. Many people are feeling miserable today because they can not cope or think something bad could happen in the future. their head is so busy to wonder what would or could happen. Instead of trying to get to know God’s Word and to look for the solutions He has given the world in His Word.

Most people do think they own the world and they can regulate everything in it. They do not want to see that  it is up to the Most High Jehovah God to rule the world. We should grasp that both past and future are God’s business, not ours. God has given us today and for that we should be happy and thankful. We should appreciate every day we can get from the Lord most High. We should never let the past or future interfere with our present rejoicing. We can only do one thing at a time in the moment we are in. Whatever moment God has given us — whatever task God has given us — let us do it unto the Lord and savour it.

As God had promised to Abraham that his seed will multiply and that his descendants would receive a city of joy, we should rejoice in that thought and be sure that God will bring it to happen, because God is a God of His word and a God of Truth.  Knowing that Zechariah his a message may also bring our hearts at peace today.

For many the world may seen like it is out of control, but with God’s watchful eye overseeing everything that happens, He will not let it go too far but will intervene at just the right time to save us from destruction, like He has always done in the past. So let’s not let ourselves be worried to much about the things that are happening. God said they would. Instead let them strengthen our faith and make us look forward all the more eagerly to the return of Christ.

The world shall have to face it, all around us, should as us :”Surrender”. Yes surrender, not to the worldly organisations, but to God His government, His Kingdom. Jesus is waiting to embrace all who come to him. We do have to come to live in the right relation with each other, Jesus and his Father because we are Created to live in relation with God. God is the One  who gives sense to it all. We should “Trust the future to God” and devote ourselves to His son and to Him.

Believing that Jesus, the son of God,  is the promised Messiah who shall return to take up his seat in the city of Jerusalem must give you assurance that everything for Jerusalem shall come all right. For Jesus is the High Priest and spitting image of his Father, who has received the power by God to do good and accepting him as  “a rewarder” presupposes an understanding of those “exceeding great and precious promises by which we might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. It is to this Jesus that a visible ruling position shall be given with a visible ruling government.

“Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.” (2 Peter 1:4 NIV)

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—” (Ephesians 2:8 NIV)

Observing the commandments and becoming doers of the Wordwe should people around us let us see the truth about Israel. All those living in Jerusalem and outside should trust Jehovah and look forward to the return of His son Jesus, knowing that they shall be saved by grace through their faith for, in the words of both Old and New Testaments, “the just shall live by faith” and when they lived according God’s Law they shall be able to enter the Kingdom of God of which Jerusalem shall be the capital.

An interpretation of the borders (in red) of the Promised Land, based on God’s promise to Abraham. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Let us make sure that we do find God before it is to late, and let us in the meantime show full respect for the Creation fo Jehovah. When we are Followers of Christ Jesus with deepening God will not tie our shoes without us. We have to keep our heart on the right path, wishing to do the will of God and when we see lots of things going wrong in Jerusalem and Israel we should try to see why those Israelis as many others do not seem to succeed in what they want.

Those who have the foundation to go the distance should go out into the world and let others know what they can do and what could bring a solution to Israel and worldpeace. Letting know others that there are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the Will of God.

In case also Israelites and people living over there would try to do more God’s work in God’s way they shall see that they will never lack God’s supplies. Those who want to be children of God should share their love with others. Those who make peace should plant peace like a seed.

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Please do read:

1. A promise given in the Garden of Eden A covenant of grace or the covenant of redemption.
2. I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה
3. Lord or Yahuwah, Yeshua or Yahushua Hashem, the name of the Creator revealed.
4. Acknowledge the majesty of the Lord’s reputation!
5. With God All Things Are Possible
6. Believing in God the rewarder
7. Cosmos creator and human destiny
8. Israel God’s people
9. Jerusalem Gods city
10. Waiting for God’s Salvation
11. The radiance of God’s glory and the counsellor
12. How is it that Christ pleased God so perfectly? Why was God so happy with His son?
13. Preexistence in the Divine purpose and Trinity
14. Impaled until death overtook him
15. Through Christ’s death you can be adopted as a child of God
16. The redemption of man by Christ Jesus
17. The truth is very plain to see and God can be clearly seen
18. Because men choose to go their own way
19. Religion, fundamentalism and murder
20. Bad things no punishment from God
21. God Watches
22. The World framed by the Word of God
23. A visible organisation on earth
24. God wants to be gracious to you
25. No good thing will he withhold
26. Belief of the things that God has promised
27. The Church, Body of Christ and remnant Israel synonymous
28. Not all will inherit the Kingdom
29. Seeing the world through the lens of his own experience
30. Power in the life of certain
31. Being prudent – zorgvuldig zijn
32. Only worship the Creator of all things
33. Commit your self to the trustworthy creator
34. Without God no purpose, no goal, no hope
35. Commit your self to the trustworthy creator
36. The first on the list of the concerns of the saint Love One Another
37. Give your worries to God
38. Life’s challenges may not paralyse you
39. Rejoicing in the day
40. Being one in Jesus, Jesus in us and God in Jesus
41. Doest thou well to be Angry?
42. The Conclusion of the System of Things

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Do also find:

1. God of Israel!When God returned the land to His chosen people, and gathered them back to their promised land back in 1948, they choose not to have God among them, and that was their biggest mistake!
2. Learning to Live in LibertyAfter 400 years of cruel bondage and enslavement, the Jews are walking out with God’s mighty hand on them, just as promised (Exodus 13).

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