LEARNING DAILY

 

Deuteronomy 28:62, You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 

 

Chapter 28 of Deuteronomy is about the blessings of obedience to God’s leading and instructions and the curses for not being obedient.  Blessings or curses – that was the choice the Jewish people had to make.  Sadly, they forgot the curses and were disobedient to the Lord’s commands.  They were warned many times, given many chances until God finally had enough of their disobedience. Moses warned them in verse 64, “Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known – wood and stone.”  That’s exactly what happened to the Jewish people; in fact, history shows they were scattered several times.

 

It is important to know that God does not forget His people the Jews.  For us to understand that He cares for them, has not replaced them with the Church, and that the coming tribulation is about them, we must grasp His thoughts about the Jewish people.  This is what God’s Word says.  Jeremiah 30:11-17 tells us that God will not forget about them in their wanderings.  He will “plunder those who plunder them”, and He will “restore them back to health”.  In Isaiah 49:14-24 God states clearly, He will remember Zion that He has “inscribed you on the palms of My hands”.  God’s grace has and will take care of His people and they shall return to Him; even in very difficult times, He has miraculously remembered His promise to them.

 

The question that comes to me is “why”?  The only answer I can come up with is because He is not finished with them.  In their continued disobedience, God has punished them, not abandoned them.  The Jewish people need to be saved through Jesus Christ just as you and I have been!  God is just not done with them because of the covenant He made with Abraham.  Do you understand how strong His promise, His covenant is?  He does not break it.  That is why they have not been destroyed by those who have hated them throughout history. 

 

Here is the key thing to remember from today.  God has kept every promise He has made to His people.  Because of that He will keep every promise, every prophetic utterance made about them in the future.  There are still unfulfilled promises, future promises, to be fulfilled.  It seems that these promises are quickly being fulfilled.  That’s why Israel and the Jewish people are in the news every day.  God is rapidly moving to bring to fulfillment the end time prophecies.

 

As God fulfills His promise to His people, it only encourages me to know He will keep His promise to all who believe in His Son Jesus Christ.  Through Jesus Christ, He has made a covenant with me that He will never lose me! It only encourages me to do all I can to walk the narrow way that leads to His kingdom and eternal life with Him.  It encourages me to seek, to hunger, to thirst for His righteousness and to be obedient.  Yes, I fail and you fail.  But I get back on the narrow way through God’s unfailing GRACE!  It is not an easy journey – it was never promised to be.  But, knowing God cares for me, even when I fail, is my confidence!  What about you?

 

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