Sunday, January 28, 2018

Israel as a Blessing

Historical approach to Israel as 'suffering servant'.

 Jews, as Abraham's descendants are the Keepers of the Covenant, they are promissed to bring blessing to all nations.

(Sorry, being followers of mr.Jzs doesn't make you 'descendants' of Abraham, anymore than it could make u jewish, regardless of Non-Testament's claims)
  
Some gentiles' object to Suffering Servant being ISRAEL, on the grounds that Jews aren't all righteous. One answer i have is: the righteous remnant of Israel , of which the real messiah will be born, that 'remnant' will be wholly righteous, as written.

Another answer is, a sinner who sincerely repents is considered 'righteous'. King David, in spite of his serious sin, has REPENTED, and Torah considers him WHOLLY RIGHTEOUS. As it is written ''the righteous fall seven times''.

I propose that we can see Israel ''being a blessing'' if we carefully examine the historical interactions  between the various nations and the Jews. Very often, (with some exceptions to be sure), a pattern emerges: The states which left Jews relatively unmolested to freely practice Judaism, those nations had often PROSPERED.

Some examples:
the Golden Age of Spain, the Golden Age of Islam, the Golden Age of Russia, the Golden Age of Poland.

 I propose that the dominance of Great Britain as world power has faded roughly when they stopped supporting Jewish rights. And British influence has returned when they STOPPED discriminating against the Jews.

i know it isn't a perfect pattern and one might note many exceptions. However, i DO feel there are enough ''coincidental'' parrallel points in history, to render my point at least somewhat valid.

(Hey, even ancient Egypt was a world power until they ''let the Jews out''!)  

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