Comment on Questions About Israel You Can't Ask At Church by mstansfield

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mstansfield · 3/6/2025, 4:51:06 PM · permalink

Amen.  Growing up it seems in Bible study the correct answer that they were looking for was always Jesus.  Anything outside of Jesus in the Bible was treated as unimportant.  I remember asking questions about the Old Testament in Church and being told that is not important, it has passed away, all that matters is Jesus.  So much of the Bible is thrown away under such logic.  I read the verses in the Bible about how it was promised to Joseph that the Sun, Moon, and Stars would all bow to him and because of this his brother wanted to kill him and could not say a kind word to him.  Here we are thousands of years later and growing up every week at church I have never heard them say a kind word about an Arab or a Muslim and the Bible says if you hate your brother in your heart it is the same as if you have murdered him.  There came a point where I was convicted.  So now I will proclaim God's love over my Arab brother.  And I will lift up the broken sticks Jew and Arab and make them one as a testimony of what God is about to do.  
  
15 The word of the Lord came to me: 16 “Son of man, take a stick\[d\] and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’ 17 And join them one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. 18 And when your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’ 19 say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the stick of Judah,\[e\] and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand. 20 When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes, 21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land. 22 And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 23 They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings\[f\] in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. Ez 37:15-23.

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