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Also everything since that time has fallen right in place according to God’s timetable. Remember as we lay out this timeline it brings the whole Bible into focus, so I would encourage you to learn to use this timeline. Remember God had ordered mankind to scatter after the flood, and they would not. So that group of people was determined to find an alterative way to approach God, and that was the whole idea of the Tower of Babel. So from the Tower of Babel for the next 200 years the human race just goes deeper and deeper in false religions so that by the time you get to the call of Abraham at 2000 BC, I maintain that there wasn’t a single believer in the true God left on earth. Joshua 24:2
“And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor, and they served other gods.”
So after that debacle at the Tower of Babel, God does something totally different when He calls out Abraham. Remember from Adam to Abraham, approximately 2000 years mankind has had opportunity of experiencing a salvation as Adam, Abel, Noah and so forth, but for the most part mankind had rejected it. So God had seen in 2000 years of human history man would not succumb to His offer of simply being obedient and believing what He said, and so now He’s going to do something totally different, when He calls out this man Abram (Abraham). God is going to bring out of this river of humanity that’s headed for a lost eternity, this one man Abraham. He’s going to give him a covenant in Genesis chapter 12, and He’s going to tell this man, “that out of him will come a nation of people, the nation of Israel or as we better know them “the Jews.” So from Genesis chapter 12 all the way up into our New Testament, the Bible is dealing almost totally with the nation of Israel.
Genesis 12:1-3
“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee, shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
God put that nation of people in one geographical area of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, which we call the Holy Land. It was evident that God had his finger on that little piece of real estate. Well after Abraham had been promised a nation of people, in a geographical area of land, the third part of that covenant, as we always emphasize, was the coming of a government, in the person of a king. So here is the beginning, then, of God dealing with the nation of Israel, under covenant promises, and is setting the stage for the coming of their King who would be the government. Of course that happened often in Israel’s history. Judges 21:25
“In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
Well that’s anarchy, but they had that constant promise out there in front of them, that the time would come when God would provide their government in the person of the King, the Messiah, who would be the Son of God! “Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 16. And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Matthew 16:17
John 11:23-27
“Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. (then Jesus gave that classic answer)25. Believest thou this? 27. She said unto him, Yea, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.”
Well we know now from history, as well as from the Book, that Israel didn’t believe who Jesus was, for the most part. It was through Paul’s preaching of the Gospel of the Grace of God, God pulls out a people for His name which the Bible calls the Body of Christ, which is the Church. The legs of iron. How could he call an empire that would defeat another empire “inferior”. Who would have ever dreamed 50 years ago that the world in general would come under democratic forms of government?
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