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clear racial strain, and the superi–
or heredity of Abraham, Isaac
and Israel. Two requisites make
a human whatever he becomes in
life: heredity and environment.
Heredity involves what has been
inherited by birth in such areas as
health, intelligence and character
tendencies. Environment includes
all externa! influences and self–
determined motivations-wheth–
er good or evil.
Heredity- if of good and hígh
quality- may start one off at an
advantage. And inspiring environ–
ment, uplifting influences and
right self-motivation may further
improvement. Such environment
may turn one of inferior heredity
into a real success in life.
But a discouraging environ–
ment, evil influences and mis–
guided self-motivation may turn
one of excellent heredity into fail–
ure and an evil nature.
God started His chosen nation
off- even though brought out of
slavery-with all the natural ad–
vantages of a superior heredity.
God pulled them out ofslavery 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 prepare and raise up this
nation Israel?
Consider WHY God created
mankind in the first place! Goo 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
GOVERNMENT OF ÜOD over all
the earth. And, further, to create
BILLIONS OF ÜOD BEINGS TO FIN–
ISH THE CREATION OF THE
V
AST
UNFINISHED UNIVERSE! And,
beyond that?
Ah! God has not as
yet revealed what He purposes
beyond that!
Everything God has done,
since the creation of the first
humans, has been another pro–
gressive step in God's overall
supreme PURPOSE!
The immediate purpose, so far in
the history ofmankind, is to prepare
for THE KINGDOM OF Goo, which
will RESTORE the GOVERNMENT OF
Goo EARTH WIDE!
The Kingdom of God is the
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actual begotten and born FAMILY
OF Goo, which will first actually
appear by a resurrection and
instantaneous translation at
Christ's Second Coming! And by
begotten and BORN sons of God,
emphatically I do NOT mean
those deceived into the current
"BORN-AGAIN," teaching-that
anyone who "receives Christ" is
already, in this present human
Jife, "born again." THAT IS A
PARAMOUNT DECEPTION by
which Satan the devil has o .E–
CEIVED those (the many in a
so-called "Christianity") who
have "accepted" a false conver–
sion. They may be well mean–
ing- but nevertheless DECEIVED!
And of course a deceived person
does not know he is deceived-he
may be wholly sincere!
But now THINK!
HOWdoes
the
Old Testament nation Israel play
a part in progressively preparing
for the KINGDOM OF Goo?
First, Abraham was a man of
very outstanding qualifying abili–
ties. Undoubtedly he, with his
sons Isaac and 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
Kingdom 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 law giver (though God
the Fatber is the original real
Lawgiver) in all probability will
be under the Abraham-Isaac–
Jacob team, but head over the
national governments of the
world during the coming Millen–
nium. And probably Joshua, who
succeeded Moses, will be Moses'
assistant in that office of world–
wide national governments.
What of the nation Israel as a
whole?
They, despite their favorable
heredity,failed utterly to qualify.
When God put the proposal oftheir
formation as His nation before
them, they replied, "All that the
Eterna! hath spoken we will do"
(Exodus 19:8). But they utterly
broke their word and rebelled.
They were in a "husband-and–
wife" relation with God. But God
said later of them, "Surely as a
wife treacherously departeth
from her husband, so ye have
dealt treacherously with me, O
House of Israel, saith the Eter–
na!" (Jeremiah 3:20).
The nation Israel under Moses
was ONE
RACE-very
little ínter–
racial marriage had marred their
racial nationality.
The Promised Land was then
called Canaan. Canaanites, racial–
ly dark, had settled in the land.
But God had given this land to
the racial descendants of Abra–
ham BY PROMISE! lt. did not
belong to the Canaanites or other
races settled there.
When God moved His two mil–
lion-plus Jsraelites in there, He
commanded them through Moses:
"When ye are passed over Jor–
dan into the land of Canaan, then
ye shall drive out all the inhabi–
tants of the Iand from before you,
and destroy all their pictures,
and destroy all their molten
images ... and ye shall dispossess
the inhabitants of the Iand, and
dwell therein; for
I
have given
you the land to possess it. ... But
if ye will not drive out the inhab–
itants of the land from before
you, then it shall come to pass,
that those which ye Jet remain of
them shall be pricks in your eyes
and thorns in your sides, and shall
vex you in the hind wherein ye
dwell " (Numbers
33:51-53, 55).
lt's time we UNDERSTAND
THIS!
This nation Israel was Goo's
NATION. But they were
a physi–
cal, not a spiritual nation.
Y
et
God gave them HIS church, as
well as national government and
religion. ÜOD INTENDED TO KEEP
THEM PHYSICALLY SEPARATE
from other nations- both nation–
ally (racially) and religiously.
· For them to intermarry with
other races would resulf in two
things: it would interbreed them
into other races, and mix them
into other idolatrous religions!
The Israelites DID NOT OBEY
Goo!
Much later, after the captivities
ofboth Israel and Judah, God sent
a colony of Jews from the Judahite
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