Charles Dicken’s great classic is, “A Tale of Two Cities.” This could also be the subtitle of the Bible, for indeed at its foundation the Bible is a tale of two cities: Israel and Babylon. Of course we cannot forget a third category, “The Nations.”
Isaac and Rebekah had twin boys and God made another choice. Ignoring the cultural norm of choosing the elder twin, God chose Jacob over Esau to continue the line of the Seed of the woman.
God chose Abram (renamed Abraham) to be the father of Israel and many nations but for many years Abraham and Sarah remained childless.
God chose Israel through whom to fulfill His promise to destroy the seed of the Serpent by the Seed of the Woman. From the sons of Adam and Eve, God chose Seth, then Terah and Abram (renamed Abraham).
After God created and scattered nations around the earth, He focused on developing and establishing a specific nation from whom the Seed of woman would be born. This nation would come from Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve.
The Seed of the woman was to have a unique birth and specific family tree. Step one was to create a specific people from whom
Most of the world, and even some in the Church are ignorant of God’s unique relationship with Israel. This ignorance is really a spiritual blindness; if Believers are blind, how much greater is the blindness of the world?
Therefore, our prayers must be directed to bringing down that barrier of blindness.
When the people returned from captivity they worshiped God and gave Him sacrifices for sin and for devotion. But their worship was superficial only because they had transgressed God’s law and married foreigners.
The Ark of the Covenant had been taken and lost in a war against the Philistines (1 Sam. 4:3-11). The Philistines took the Ark to several places in their country, and at each place there was trouble (1 Sam. 5:1-6).
Today “Zion” relates to all of Jerusalem and even all of Israel. The term “Zionism” describes a political and religious movement which believes that all of the land God promised to Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob will be occupied by the Jewish people.
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