Good Sunday Morning!
1. Question – Why is a fledgling country with a
total land space smaller than New Jersey mentioned in the
nightly news more than any other nation except the United
States? Why is this so?
2. Thought – To answer these questions, we must
understand what happened on that day in 1948, what is
happening today in Israel, and how these events affect the
entire world. For answers, we must turn not to the evening
news or the front page of the newspaper, but to the Bible.
As Rabbi Binyamin Elon, a member of the Israeli Knesset,
wrote:
I believe that if you do not know how to read the
Bible, you cannot understand the daily newspaper. If you
do not know the biblical story of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, you cannot possibly understand the miracle of the
modern state of Israel.
The story of Israel begins at the very beginning of the
Bible, in the book of Genesis. The very proportion of the
coverage tells us something about the importance of
Israel. Only two chapters are given to the whole story of
creation. One chapter records the fall of man. Eight
chapters cover the thousands of years from creation to the
time of Abram. Then we find that fully thirty-eight
chapters deal with the life stories of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob – the progenitors of the Jewish race.
Apparently God finds Abraham and his descendants to be of
enormous importance. (What In The World Is Going On? by
Dr. David Jeremiah)
Have a great week!