BRAGADAYJAH 29

As has been said, God made Abram an offer he couldn’t refuse. For God told him, “Get up and leave your country, and your father and mother, and all your family members, and your friends, and follow me; and I will take you to a land, and make you a great nation. I will bless them that bless you, and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing to others. I will bless them that bless you, and curse them who curse you; and through you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Obviously then, Abram took God at his word. He was promised greatness and riches, and power and fame. We have surely heard similar words in our day; “Go West young man. There is a land of fame and fortune awaiting you.” So out of Abram came the Jewish Nation and many other nations to boot; but as has been said earlier, the focus now shifts almost entirely to the rise and fall of the Jewish Nation. We promised to explain the three reasons why God called a special people for His purpose. But first let us imagine a large membership body, whether dozens, or hundreds or thousands. We know that in order to manage the affairs of the body as a whole, a small executive body is selected or elected to carry out the day to day affairs of the organization as a whole. The reasons are obvious. A meeting of hundreds or thousands of people would be unwieldy, cumbersome, counter-productive and impossible. One could readily appreciate, therefore, why to carry out His purposes, God chose to choose one nation through whom to work, in demonstrating to the world that He is the one the and living God. So what were those purposes? It is suggested that they were: Firstly, to write the history of mankind from the cradle, the garden of Eden, down to the coming of His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Secondly, to show the blessedness of serving the true and living God, and Thirdly, to be the Royal line through which Messiah would come. More…