Where’s My Milk and Honey

’The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’ All nations would say, ’Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’ Then people would say: ’Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them. Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. Deuteronomy 29:23-27

What Happened to the Milk and Honey?

Oh the land God gave Israel did flow with these things, but then Israel abandoned God and brought about the curse–God did not curse them, Israel cursed themselves. So much so, that in 135 AD Roman Emperor Adrian evicted all the Jews from the land, poisoned the fertile soil with salt, and renamed the area Palestine. Mark Twain said of the land almost 1, 700 years later,

“…A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse…. a desolation…. we never saw a human being on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.” (The Innocents Abroad, p. 361-362)

The good news is that Israel is going to be fully restored upon Jesus’ triumphant return and finish what was reestablished in May of 1948. But while His time is at hand, the application I desire to make today is in regards to God’s resourcefulness and not His faithfulness.

What happened, and is happening to Israel, one way another, is going to be a testimony to God; He uses both the good example and the bad example to drive home His point. In similar fashion what we do is going to be used by God–we will either be an illustration of what occurs when a believer is obedient, or what happens when we choose to go astray. God does not waste anything.

The very Good News is that we do not have to stay in a fallen or backslidden state–for the sake of this discussion, repentance is always available. Tomorrow, figuratively speaking, the nation of Israel will be wholly restored, but no one person need wait that long for today is the day of your salvation.

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