SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/2/2016 9:41 PM
My Worship Time Focus: They Were Robbing Others
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Malachi 3:12
Message of the verses: “12 “All the nations will call you blessed,
for you shall be a delightful land," says the LORD of hosts.” 12 And you will be named happy by all
nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies (BBE).”
Now the
reason that the Jewish remnant was robbing others is because they were not fulfilling
what God desired them to fulfill, that is to be a blessing to the nations
around them. When the remnant came back
to their city they had the opportunity to be a great witness to the nations
that were around them, but because of the fact that they were not keeping God’s
covenant they were unable to fulfill what God desired them to do. Let us look at Deuteronomy 28:9-10 “9 “The
LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of
the LORD your God and walk in His ways. 10 “So all the peoples of the
earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be
afraid of you.” This was God’s promise
to them if they obeyed what He told them to do, but they failed. In the Millennial Kingdom this certainly will
be fulfilled, but it has not been fulfilled since God gave the Law way back
when it was given on Mt. Sinai. In the
future the Gentiles will come to Jerusalem to learn about the Lord: “31 "Behold, days are coming,"
declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of
Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with
their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land
of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,"
declares the LORD. 33 "But this is the covenant which I will make with the
house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My
law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and
they shall be My people. 34 "They will not teach again, each man his
neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ’Know the LORD,’ for they will all
know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the
LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no
more’ (Jeremiah 31:31-34).”
Now as I
think about the blessing that Israel could have been to the nations around
them, and the failure that they made by not doing that I realize that it was a
great tragedy on their part. However I
cannot be hard on them for how much has the church been a blessing to all the
nations, all the people groups? I have
mentioned in earlier SD’s that the OT was written for our examples, as we look
at the mistakes and sins that the people in the OT did we can learn from their
mistakes which is one of the reasons it was written, and we should then not
make those same sinful mistakes that they made.
12/2/2016 10:02 PM
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