{"id":1856,"date":"2021-01-27T11:06:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T11:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lion4israel.lion-of-judah.org\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2021-01-27T11:06:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T11:06:49","slug":"why-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lion4israel.lion-of-judah.org\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"Why Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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God loves Israel <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

God loves Israel and wants to pass on His blessings to all nations through this nation (Genesis 12:3) I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.<\/p>\n

* in God’s plan Israel has a special place: God chose Israel in his love and gave him a special position to be his own people.<\/p>\n

* God also describes His relationship to this nation this way: Israel is God’s son (Hos. 11:1) – Israel is the apple of God’s eye (Zech. 2:12) – Israel is God’s bride, His wife (Isa. 54:5) In the same way that a man promises his love and devotion to a woman through the covenant of marriage, God connects Himself to Israel, His wife, through the covenant He has made with her. (Ezek. 16:8)<\/p>\n

God’s love is an eternal love<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

* God always stands by His covenant (marriage) promises (Ps. 105:7-15)<\/p>\n

* He remembers his covenant forever. We know from biblical history that Israel was always unfaithful to God (Ezek. 16:15 + 35-38)<\/p>\n

* But God’s love for His bride is greater than His disappointment in her (Isa. 62:4).<\/p>\n

God’s love is an unchanging love <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

*Israel is God’s creation – a chosen covenant people whose beginnings lead back to God’s promises to Abraham and Sarah and the miraculous birth of their son Isaac.<\/p>\n

*The children of the promise are the tribes of Israel. This eternal covenant with them is unchanged and therefore still has its validity (Rom. 9.4-5 + 26)<\/p>\n

*Abraham also had a son by Sarah’s maid Hagar: Ishmael.<\/p>\n

*God promised that he would bless Ishmael’s descendants (the Arabs), which he did. (Genesis 16:10-12). But God’s covenant promises are to the descendants of Isaac (Genesis 26:1-6).<\/p>\n

*In God’s covenant relationship with Abraham, He also gave at the same time a promise as well as a serious warning concerning Abraham’s descendants.<\/p>\n

*We should remember that Israel, even today, remains the apple of God’s eye.<\/p>\n

*From our behavior toward Israel, God’s behavior toward us necessarily follows.<\/p>\n

Genesis 12:3<\/i><\/p>\n

I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee: and in thee shall all kindred’s of the earth be blessed<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is part 1 of several parts – taken from the workbook Why Israel?<\/p>\n

Translated with www.DeepL.com\/Translator (free version)<\/p>\n

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