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ISRAEL THE CHOSEN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6
Acts 3:25-26

Deuteronomy 7:6-11

 

“The LORD did not set
his love upon you, nor choose you,

because ye were more…”

 

ISRAEL THE CHOSEN
 
Israel is a blessed nation. God chose it to be the place where the Messiah would come; and He will save not only the Jews but also the Gentiles. Israel had foreknown the Messiah’s coming. Through them the prophecies were given concerning Christ. If there was a people who should have been ready and prepared to welcome Jesus at His first coming, it would be the Jews.
 
The source of blessing: Jesus Christ is the Seed of Abraham, the One who was promised of old to be the blessing throughout all the earth. In Genesis 12:3, the LORD told Abraham that in him shall all the families of the earth be blessed. It was again affirmed in Genesis 18:17-18, “And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?” What is this blessing? This blessing is God’s provision for man’s forgiveness of sins. Christians must be content and avoid coveting worldly blessings because the greatest blessing anyone can receive is the blessing of salvation by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
The sample of cleansing: Unto the Jews God first foreshadowed how a man can be cleansed. Jesus’ life, death and resurrection had been foretold in the types the Jews saw. They were blessed for they had a foretaste of the Messiah. All the ceremonial laws were foretelling of Christ. He was sent to fulfil the promise of the Father through the oracles in the Old Testament. “Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Heb 10:7-10).
 
Are you part of the blessed people because of Israel’s Messiah? Do you pray for Israel and her capital city Jerusalem?
 
THOUGHT: Will I witness the reign of Jesus sitting on David’s throne?

PRAYER: Father, give me the heart to pray for Thy chosen nation.

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