SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/27/2016 7:44 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Divine Populating
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zech. 8:7
Message of the verse: “7 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ’Behold,
I am going to save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the
west; 8 and I will bring them back and they will live in the midst of
Jerusalem; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God in truth and
righteousness.’”
The first
thing that I have to say is that in reality we went over this section in our
last SD when I gave a very large quote from John MacArthur’s sermon at the end
of the SD. I think what we will do is go
over this once more and then we will look at the next element in our next SD
which will be “Divine Prosperity,” which comes from verse nine and following.
I suppose
that there are some who state that what is being talked about here is the Jews
going back to Jerusalem from Babylon, but that is not the case, as we have been
talking about things that will happen in the kingdom for a while and so this
continues to talk about the kingdom. I
am not sure how many Jews there are in the world, but a website I looked at
states that there are now 16 million Jewish people scattered around the
world. According to that website there
are 6.1 Jewish people living in Israel, and 5.7 living in the United States so
that makes 11.8 million and so the other 4.2 million are living in other parts
of the world. It is interesting to me
how people can count how many Jews are living around the world, just think of
that fact for a moment as there is no other people group in the world quite
like the Jews. Did you ever wonder what
that is true? Well the Bible tells us
that this is what is going to happen and the reason is that they are God’s
special people and He has a future for them, not so with any other people
group. Now you may wonder why I don’t
use the term “race” and that is because there is only one race on this planet
and that is the human race. There are
different people groups, but only one race, and God is telling us that in the
Millennial Kingdom the Jewish population is going to grow, and grow as the
fulfillments of the kingdom promises will be fulfilled during that time period.
Ok I think
that I will stop at this point and if you want more info on this subject look
at the SD from yesterday as it will give you some more.
7/27/2016 8:09 PM
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