Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown, and are not:
But the house of the righteous shall stand.
The history of believers testifies to this statement. By all means, faith in God should have been destroyed long ago but yet, it is not.
Abel, the first man of faith, was killed by his brother Cain. Seth the third son of Adam and Eve his parents, succeeded him. Seth continued in faith while his older brother Cain continued in crime. Fifteen hundred years later, the lineage of Seth is miraculously saved from a worldwide flood though the obedience of Noah in building an ark after God’s command. Around 2000 BCE, when God wanted to show Himself to mankind, He did it through one man: Abraham, whose wife was barren. Rebecca, his son Isaac’s wife whom he married at the age of sixty, was also barren. When Isaac and Rebecca finally had children, Esau the older threatened to kill the younger one Jacob who then fled from his home and crossed the desert by himself. After finding work at the house of Laban, a distant relative, Jacob married Laban’s two daughters, as well as their servants. These marriages gave him twelve sons through whom the believer’s race would be preserved.
This is only the beginning of the story. Through the offspring of Jacob, the world was to discover its God (John 4:22), so the enemy of God had to do everything he could to destroy them. Four hundred years later a Pharaoh decrees that the children of Jacob should not live. He orders all their male offspring thrown in the Nile. When God hears the cry of His oppressed children, He carries them on His wings to a land He had chosen for them. For fifteen hundred years, that land was built, destroyed, rebuilt, occupied and destroyed again several times, until finally, in 165 CE the Roman Empire evacuated every Jew from Israel and renamed it Palestina, after the name of their arch-enemies: the Philistines. In the meantime though, through the children of Jacob, God’s great purpose was accomplish: the birthing of the Messiah which would introduce the whole world to the God of the Torah, thus creating more believers.
From the times of their dispersion in the world until today, the seed of Jacob should have been exterminated not only though centuries of ruthless persecutions, but also through natural assimilation. Yet, it lives on. It lives on because God has a plan. God has established that in the end of days, the feet of Messiah will come and touch down on the Mt of Olive; that from Jerusalem He will rule the world with a rod of iron for a millennial sabbatical. At that time, all those in the world who believe in His words and all those who are faithful to His commandments will be reunited in peace forever. Yes, the wicked is truly overthrown, while the house of the believers, the house of Yehoshua the Messiah, the Righteous truly stands..
The wicked are overthrown, and are not:
But the house of the righteous shall stand.
The history of believers testifies to this statement. By all means, faith in God should have been destroyed long ago but yet, it is not.
Abel, the first man of faith, was killed by his brother Cain. Seth the third son of Adam and Eve his parents, succeeded him. Seth continued in faith while his older brother Cain continued in crime. Fifteen hundred years later, the lineage of Seth is miraculously saved from a worldwide flood though the obedience of Noah in building an ark after God’s command. Around 2000 BCE, when God wanted to show Himself to mankind, He did it through one man: Abraham, whose wife was barren. Rebecca, his son Isaac’s wife whom he married at the age of sixty, was also barren. When Isaac and Rebecca finally had children, Esau the older threatened to kill the younger one Jacob who then fled from his home and crossed the desert by himself. After finding work at the house of Laban, a distant relative, Jacob married Laban’s two daughters, as well as their servants. These marriages gave him twelve sons through whom the believer’s race would be preserved.
This is only the beginning of the story. Through the offspring of Jacob, the world was to discover its God (John 4:22), so the enemy of God had to do everything he could to destroy them. Four hundred years later a Pharaoh decrees that the children of Jacob should not live. He orders all their male offspring thrown in the Nile. When God hears the cry of His oppressed children, He carries them on His wings to a land He had chosen for them. For fifteen hundred years, that land was built, destroyed, rebuilt, occupied and destroyed again several times, until finally, in 165 CE the Roman Empire evacuated every Jew from Israel and renamed it Palestina, after the name of their arch-enemies: the Philistines. In the meantime though, through the children of Jacob, God’s great purpose was accomplish: the birthing of the Messiah which would introduce the whole world to the God of the Torah, thus creating more believers.
From the times of their dispersion in the world until today, the seed of Jacob should have been exterminated not only though centuries of ruthless persecutions, but also through natural assimilation. Yet, it lives on. It lives on because God has a plan. God has established that in the end of days, the feet of Messiah will come and touch down on the Mt of Olive; that from Jerusalem He will rule the world with a rod of iron for a millennial sabbatical. At that time, all those in the world who believe in His words and all those who are faithful to His commandments will be reunited in peace forever. Yes, the wicked is truly overthrown, while the house of the believers, the house of Yehoshua the Messiah, the Righteous truly stands..
2 comments:
Praise YHVH for HIS plan and our part in it.
Hi. i just wanted to say its cool having someone else in the world name patrick lumbroso. thats my dads name. i didn't think it was very common. any way
cheers : D
rebecca lumbroso
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