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LIFE. He was going to demonstrate to
them that the mind of MAN, with its
one spirit, and without the addition
of God's Holy Spirit, could not have
spiritual discernment-could not
solve human problems, could not
cure the evils that were besetting
humanity. The nation Israel would
be his guinea pig to demonstrate that
fact. God had chosen a nation of
almost perfect original strain in its
generations- its ancestry. Also they
had the quality heredity of Abra–
ham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel).
So God entered into a covenant
with them, making them HIS
NATION. It also represented a MAR–
RIAGE covenant, with Israel the
wife, promising obedience to her
husband-Goo. It was the physical
type of the yet-to-come spirifual
NEW COVENANT.
And what did it prove?
lsrael's Heredlty and Envlronment
Here was a people of almost clear
racial strain, and the God-believing
heredity of Abraham, Isaac and
Israel. Two requisites make a
human whatever he becomes in life:
heredity and environment. Heredi–
ty involves what has been inherited
by birth in such areas as health,
intelligence and character tenden–
cies. Environment includes all
external inftuences and self-deter–
mined motivations- whether good
or evil.
Heredity- if of good and high
quality-may start one off at an
advantage. An inspiring environ–
ment, uplifting inftuences and right
self-motivation may further im–
provement. Such environment may
turn one of inferior heredity into a
real success in life.
But a discouraging environment,
evil inftuences and misguided self–
motivation may turn one of excel–
lent heredity into failure and an
evil nature.
God started his chosen nation
off-even though brought out of
slavery-with all the natural advan–
tages of a superior heredity. God
pulled them out of sJavery and gave
them a new and fresh start. One
might say they had everything
God-given going for them.
But now WHY? Why did God so
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prepare and raise up thi's nation
Israel?
Consider WHY God created man–
kind in the first place! GoD IS
REPRODUCING HIMSELF THROUGH
MAN! He is creating in MAN God's
own perfect, holy and righteous
spiritual CHARACTER! And that, in
turn, is purposed to
restore
the
GOV·ERNMENT OF Goo over all the
earth. And, further, to create BIL–
LIONS OF GOD BEINGS TO FINISH
THE CREATION OF THE VAST UNFIN–
ISHED UNIVERSE! And ,
beyond
that?
Ah! God has not as yet revealed
what he purposes beyond that!
Everytbing God has done, since
the creation of the first humans,
has been another progressive step
in God's overall supreme PUR–
POSE!
Type of the Klngdom of God
The immediate purpose, so far in
the history of mankind, is to pre–
pare for THE KINGDOM OF GOD,
whicb will RESTORE the GOVERN–
MENT OF GOD EARTH WIDE!
The kingdom of God is the actual
begotten and boro FAMILY OF Goo,
which will first actually appear by a
resurrection and instantaneous
translation at Christ's Second Com–
ing! And by begotten and BORN sons
of God, emphatically
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do NOT mean
those deceived into the current
doubtedly he, with his sons Isaac a:nd
Israel, shall, in the resurrection and
kingdom of God, occupy a position
next under Christ himself. The king–
dom of God will be a spiritual king–
dom including both church and
state- earth wide. These, as a team,
probably will be next in line of
authority under CHRIST-and over
both church and state.
Of the nation IsRAEL, Moses,
whom God raised up as their leader
and lawgiver (though God the
Father is the original real Lawgiv–
er), in all probability will be under
the Abraham-Isaac-Jacob team,
but head over the national govern–
ments of the world during the com–
ing millennium. And probably
Joshua, who succeeded Moses, will
be Moses' assistant in that office of
worldwide national goveroments.
What of the nation Israel as a
whole?
They, despite their favorable
heredity,
failed utterly to qualify.
When God put the proposal of their
formation as his nation before
them, they replied, "Ail that the
Lord hath spoken we will do" (Ex.
19:8). But they utterly broke their
word and rebelled.
They were. in a " husband-and–
wife" relation with the Lord God.
But the Lord said later of them:
"Surely as a wife treacherously
departeth from her husband, so
"BORN-AGAIN" teach–
ing-that anyone who
"professes to receive
Christ" is already, in this
present human life, "boro
again." THAT IS A PARA–
MOUNT DECEPTION by
which Satan the devil has
DECEIVED those (the many
in a so-called "Christian–
ity") who have "accepted"
a false conversion. They
he future of great nations
rests on the promises
the eterna) Creator made
to Abraham.
may be well meaning- but
nevertheless DECEIVED! And of
course a deceived person does not
know he is deceived-he may be
wholly sincere!
But now THINK!
HOW
does the
Old Testament nation Israel play a
part in progressively preparing for
the KINGDOM OF Goo?
Government in the Kingdom
of ·God
First, Abraham was a man of very
outstanding qualifying abilities. Un-
have ye dealt treacherously with
me, O house of Israel ..." (Jer.
3:20).
The nation Israel under Moses
was one people divided into 12
tribes.
The Promised Land was then
called Canaan. Canaanites had set–
tled in the land. But God had given
this land to the descendants of
Abraham BY PROMISE!
lt
did not
belong to the Canaanites or other
national groups settled there.
The
PLAIN TRUTH