22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude (Deuteronomy 10:22).
When God decides something it ends up big. The previous statement is not meant to be either cliché or trite but rather to bring to light a profound truth. That truth is that God, in His sovereignty, impacts the world in massive ways. God made Israel into a nation with many people, just as He had promised. What should not be lost here is that the nation of Israel came about against all odds. They were originally small in number and almost starved to death, then they were slaves in Egypt, and then they wondered in the desert for 40 years. It would seem unlikely that they would have survived as a people and a nation. It should be noted that Israel still exists, a fact that should not be lost on us. They have been scattered throughout the world, had multiple acts of genocide occur to them, and yet they remain. God will always maintain His people, sometimes as a remnant, but a people nonetheless. We, as the church, are now a people set apart by God as well, and numbered as the stars of heaven.
When God decides something it ends up big. The previous statement is not meant to be either cliché or trite but rather to bring to light a profound truth. That truth is that God, in His sovereignty, impacts the world in massive ways. God made Israel into a nation with many people, just as He had promised. What should not be lost here is that the nation of Israel came about against all odds. They were originally small in number and almost starved to death, then they were slaves in Egypt, and then they wondered in the desert for 40 years. It would seem unlikely that they would have survived as a people and a nation. It should be noted that Israel still exists, a fact that should not be lost on us. They have been scattered throughout the world, had multiple acts of genocide occur to them, and yet they remain. God will always maintain His people, sometimes as a remnant, but a people nonetheless. We, as the church, are now a people set apart by God as well, and numbered as the stars of heaven.
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