Unique
Treasure
“For you are a people set apart as holy for Adonai your God.
Adonai your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth
to be his own unique treasure. Adonai didn’t set his heart on you or choose you
because you numbered more than any other people — on the contrary, you were the
fewest of all peoples. Rather, it was because Adonai loved you, and because he
wanted to keep the oath which he had sworn to your ancestors, that Adonai
brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from a life of slavery
under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.” (Deuteronomy 7:6-8, Complete Jewish
Bible)
Some understand and get it when I explain to them why we,
Love For His People ministry, support Israel and the Jewish people. They know
that the Word of the Lord, complete from Genesis through Revelation, explains
the redemption process the Almighty God Himself gave to us, from eternity.
And others? Well, not so much.
My good wife Laurie and I depart today for this journey
across the Big Pond (May 1, 2019 - my 20th trip to Israel, which
being an accountant I keep track of), to the land, which is now flowing with
milk and honey, literally, as promised. I want to again write of that which the
Lord Himself called the Promised Land, for the Jews, and why it is such a huge “because”.
Simply put, God created Adam and Eve, the first man and woman
(yes, true stories that really happened as written in all the Bible) and gave
them life from which they later turned against due to the commitment of sin. This
separated them from having fellowship with God. Then this very same God proceeded
to bring forth His plans and purposes: send a Redeemer, through a chosen
people, to once again have a family who would love Him, His only Begotten Son
Yeshua, outworked through the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
This God-head, Three-in-One, wanted to share His eternal love
with an eternal people, for all eternity. Because a path was needed to come
back into His fellowship, and a blood sacrifice was required to redeem mankind
from sin, He would send His Son, His only Begotten One, through the people
called the Jews, for all the nations to receive His mercy and love.
The people could, if they would, receive Him, the Redeemer. If
they received His free offer, fellowship would be restored.
And that is as simple as you can state it.
So how more completely was He going to do it? How would He reveal
Himself, His love and mercy, His abundant grace reaching out to any and all who
would seek, find, and accept His free offer of forgiveness, reconciliation, and
redemption?
He chose the Jews, since the very beginning, to bring forth His
plan, to themselves and all the nations. He sent His Son, Yeshua, to become a
man, a Jew, and suffer, die, be crucified, and rise from the dead, as the Blood
Sacrifice that God required, to cleanse mankind from sin.
As the above quoted, written Word clearly states, “Adonai (the
Lord) your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the
earth to be his own unique treasure. Adonai didn’t set his heart on you or
choose you because you numbered more than any other people — on the contrary,
you were the fewest of all peoples. Rather, it was because Adonai loved you,
and because he wanted to keep the oath which he had sworn to your ancestors…”
God the Almighty, the Creator of the Universe, the One Who is
above all and everything that has ever been created and exists. This very One
chose the Jews. These exact ones who, through the many centuries since that choosing,
have been miraculously brought through generations and generations of hardship,
persecution, destruction many times over, and yet live on, in the Land of
Israel and beyond, proving that God is God (Yahweh, Yeshua, Jesus, Lord of all,
King of kings, Ancient of Days, Three in One, etc.) and that His Faithfulness
and Truth, promised for all eternity, will not be stopped, with not be thwarted,
and will never be beaten by Satan and his hordes of demons and principalities.
No nation, no dictator, no country filled with anti-Semitism,
will keep the One and Only from completing His perfect plan and purpose, begun with
man in the Garden, to the complete fulfillment of all prophetic words – spoken and
written – up through the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. All these redeemed people,
from all nations, will then be seated with Him and His Son Yeshua HaMashiach in
His heavenly realm.
This unique treasure, the Jews, those who through it all,
despised and rejected, just like their Messiah Yeshua was, are the ones who
have carried these promises of redemption and restoration for these thousands
of generations. This people, whom the Lord describes as the olive tree, has
been brought through the test of times, and now shine forth from their land of
promise, Israel.
God the Father gave His promise to the Jews, and
through this very tree, the olive tree as described throughout Scripture as a
visual for all, has also extended His offered life to the Gentiles, described
as the wild branches of the olive tree.
Some have falsely believed, to this very day, that the
Jews gave up their inheritance when they failed to recognize Jesus’s first coming
as the promised Messiah. But as the apostle Paul clearly states in Romans, it
was only for a time, to allow the Gentiles, non-Jews, to also receive the promise of salvation.
As he so adequately wrote in Romans 11:11-16, “I say
then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through
their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Now
if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the
Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an
apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, if by any means I may provoke
to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. For if their being
cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but
life from the dead?
For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy;
and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
And if some of the branches were
broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and
with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not
boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not
support the root, but the root supports you.
You will say then, "Branches were broken off that
I might be grafted in." Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken
off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. For if God did not
spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the
goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you,
goodness, if you continue in His goodness.
Otherwise you also will be cut off. And
they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is
able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is
wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive
tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their
own olive tree?
For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be
ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that
blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has
come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
"The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will
turn away ungodliness from Jacob;” (NKJV)
Our commitment as believers, as Christians, in support of the Jews
and their Land of Israel, Eretz Y’srael (Hebrew - Land of Israel) becomes
stronger every day, as these end times further proves the existence and the outworking of God’s holy plan.
Those who chose to stand with His chosen people will
reap the benefits of the same, this unique treasure to which the nations will
either stumble over or acknowledge as the work of God.
We go today in support of our friends, believers in
Yeshua, and rightful heirs of the Land He has brought them back to. May your
heart and soul also be in support of these through whom the Savior of the
world, Yeshua HaMashiach, has come, will come again, and justly rule from the very
city He has placed His eternal Name on, Jerusalem, in Israel.
Now think of this,
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People,
Inc.
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