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*The Miracle and the Mystery*
January 31st, 2004 and February 1st, 2004
1 Corinthians 10 NLT
*/31 Whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do, you must do all for the glory of God.
32 Don’t give offense to Jews or Gentiles or the /**/church/**/ of /**/God/**/.
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-Notice that the Scripture says;
· *Jews*
· *Gentiles (Greeks in some translations)*
· *The **Church** of **God*
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-In order to get a clear picture of the plan of God through Scripture and especially in relationship to the end times, you have to distinguish who God is talking to.
-The principles that are being presented are universal.
In other words, Jesus said when talking to Jews that they should do like go two miles when asked to go one etc.
We should all follow those principles whether we are Jews or Gentiles.
-Yet in relationship to prophecy and the end times there is a specific plan for each of these three groups.
-Interestingly, some Jews see Christian and Gentile as the same thing.
They don’t distinguish between real followers of Jesus and Gentiles who live in so-called Christian nations.
-I want to briefly trace some things through Scripture so we can get a better picture of where we are and where we are headed.
-Let me also throw in here that the best and ultimate for everyone, whether Jew or gentile is to follow Jesus as Messiah.
-Jesus is Jewish, Paul is Jewish, and the early church was Jewish.
-Your New Testament was primarily written by Jews.
*The Miracle*
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-When I talk about the miracle I am speaking about the miracle of the nation of Israel.
-We aren’t going to cover much this morning but it is a subject that I encourage you to pursue if you want to see God’s hand revealed in a great way.
-When sin came into the world it produced */an individual problem/* for each one of us.
-It also produced */an international problem./*
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-For the individual, an individual was needed.
-For the second a nation was selected to be a light to the other nations and to be the standard by which nations would be judged.
Genesis 12
*/The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you./*
*/2 “I will make you into a great nation/*
*/and I will bless you;/*
*/I will make your name great,/*
*/and you will be a blessing./*
*/3 I will bless those who bless you,/*
*/and whoever curses you I will curse;/*
*/and all peoples on earth/*
*/will be blessed through you.”/*
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-All nations would be blessed through Abraham but God was making his seed into both a spiritual and a physical nation.
-The spiritual nation is the church but the physical seed is Israel.
Genesis 13
*/14 /**/The Lord said to Abram after /**/Lot/**/ had parted from him, “Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west.
15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring a forever.
16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.” /*
*/18 So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at /**/Hebron/**/, where he built an altar to the Lord.
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-God took Abraham to a place, from which he could view the entire land and promised the land of Israel, as it would later be called, to him and his seed forever.
Genesis 15
*/5 /**/He took him outside and said, “Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.”
Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” /*
*/6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
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*/7 He also said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of /**/Ur/**/ of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”/*
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-So we know Abraham was to receive a spiritual as well as a physical seed.
-God’s design was that the world would be blessed when Israel was in its right place with David’s descendant ruling.
-We can see that this is yet to come.
The story;
Abraham has Isaac, the son of promise after first trying it his way and having Ishmael.
There are problems between the sons that are still making headlines in the news today.
Isaac has Jacob and Esau and they have sibling rivalry as well.
Jacob runs away and ends up caring for his father-in-law’s sheep.
He comes home with a large family and very rich.
His name is changed to Israel after he struggles with God and sees that he can’t solve his own problems by effort and sheer willpower.
He has 12 sons who become the leaders of the 12 tribes of Israel.
Again we have sibling rivalry and Joseph is sold into slavery in Egypt after telling a couple of dreams to his brothers.
He ends up through a series of events serving as 2nd in command in all of Egypt while all of the other nations have to come down to them for food.
Eventually he reveals himself to his brothers and the nation of Israel is brought to Egypt to save them.
There arises a Pharoah who doesn’t know Joseph so he puts the Israelites in slavery.
The Hebrews are multiplying and Pharoah wants the boys killed.
Really satan does because he is looking for the seed of the woman who would be the Messiah.
Moses is spared and is trained in Pharoah’s house.
God uses him to lead the people out of Egypt into the wilderness.
Joshua is raised up to lead them into the land God had promised Abraham.
A series of leaders or judges are raised up to lead them through certain rough times but eventually they want to be a monarchy instead of a theocracy so God gives them their first king, Saul.
He turns out bad so David is raised up to replace him.
Solomon becomes the successor and under David and Solomon Israel has it golden age.
David was a warrior but Solomon formed political alliances with other nations by marrying their daughters.
Unfortunately he began to worship their gods as well.
After him the kingdom was divided between Judah in the south and Israel in the north.
Israel went from bad to worse so God raised up Assyria to attack them and take them captive.
They are known as the lost 10 tribes today.
(Some of these tribes have been located in other parts of the world with their religion and customs pretty well intact.)
Later Judah rebels and is taken captive by Babylon for 70 years.
We see Daniel serving in Babylon praying for the captivity to end.
God brings the Jews back to Jerusalem and the temple is rebuilt but not with the same splendor and grandeur that it had before.
There are few significant events except some wars and messianic communities during this time.
The last 400 years before Jesus comes are known as the “silent years”.
Then who comes on the scene?
Jesus.
Time is marked by His appearance on the earth.
He lives about 33 years with the last 3 years being ministry years.
He is crucified and rises from the dead.
Before He dies he tells about the future of the nation of Israel and the city of Jerusalem.
Herod had built up the temple and really made it something.
He had jazzed it up quite a bit.
Daniel talks about what will happen to the Jews in Daniel 9 and Jesus builds on it.
Matthew 24
*/ Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings.
2 “Do you see all these things?” he asked.
“I tell you the truth, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
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*/3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately.
“Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” /*
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