Opus 2024-343: Renewal

I have reading through Isaiah and I am seeing the points someone made about how much of this was written to Israel.  How does it apply to us?  That’s a question for another day.

What struck me here is that the prophecies that I’m seeing have to do with God renewing his covenant and his relationship with Israel in the end times.  This is after a long period of apostasy and neglect. That is to be fulfilled in the future.

Turn the clock back.

The current age of being out of favor with God, began with the destruction of Herod’s temple in the year 70.  From that point until today Israel has had no way to sacrifice, no way to achieve atonement, no way to in reality worship their God through the official means.  Somehow they still go through the motions but I don’t see how it gives them any hope.

Turn the clock back.

Go back to the exile when the temple was destroyed and Israel was hauled off to Babylon.  Hard times for the Jews.  No temple for sacrifice.

Turn the clock back.

Israel has been brought out of Egypt and is now being given the law and a clear direction in which to go. This will last for a while, but even after the temple was built, they begin to ignore the word of God and the rabbis take over.

Turn the clock back.

The children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have been moved to Egypt.  God was in this.  He was doing it to save his people.  Somewhere in the process of living in Goshen, the children of Israel began to assimilate into the Egyptian culture.  They begin forget about their God, and they became more and more Egyptian.  Now we are into my speculation.  I think the time came when the only way God could keep them from being completely absorbed and dissolved was to raise up a pharaoh that did not know Joseph.  When this happened, they were made slaves.  It did not return them to being faithful, but it did separate them from the Egyptians and make them amenable to what Moses had to say when he returned.

Time and time again God has had to slap down His people in order to try and reach them and to keep the covenant alive.  Israel kept killing the covenant, and God kept refusing to allow it to die.

As far as salvation goes and eternity, we are still seeing that struggle between national salvation and personal salvation. I don’t have an answer for that.  As we watch events unfolding in modern Israel and listen to all the You Tube click bait about rebuilding the temple you wonder if we are coming to the time when it will all make sense.  There is nothing you can do to fulfil the prophecy meant for Israel.  What you can do is make sure that your house is in order.

I don’t need any prophecy for that.

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