Walking the Point

posted by Writer on May 4

 Many Christians are like the man Micah in Judges 17, who made a god of     convenience. Like him, we’ve whittled Almighty God down to size in order to fit into our world. Many Christian’s also fail to apply certain things written in the Bible to our present situation.

Many may not know how to do this. However, many don’t pay attention to the Old Testament and how it applies today. Paul wrote; “Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition…” (1)

What things is he talking about? He drew his audience back to the Old Testament examples.

In this case, let’s take our relationship with the nation Israel. By far, this administration is the most hostile starting with the President, his Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense.

Which according to the scripture, leads me to conclude that if our President continues on this path (and I believe he will), it will mean serious trouble for us. It’s the old, “what goes around, comes around” principle that we’ve all heard about or seen play out.  (See Galatians 6:7-8).

Now back to the Old Testament and ‘the rewards’ given to those attempting to harm the Israeli’s. Pharaoh ordered all their male babies to be tossed in the river (Exodus 1:22), but his army was swallowed up in the Red Sea (Exodus 14:19ff). Haman wanted to hang Mordecai, but it was reserved for him and his family (Esther 5:14, 7:7-10 and 9:13-14). Daniel was spared from the lions, but his accusers were thrown in (Daniel 6). (2)

Obama thinks he’s digging a hole for Bibi Netanyahu (and the Israeli’s are being squeezed by this administration and the hostile nations surrounding them), but what he could be doing, according to the examples we have in scripture, is bringing harm to the US.

You want to chance it?

(1) I Corinthians 10:11; (2) Source for this section is from With the Word A Devotional commentary by Warren Wiersbe p. 277