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Pamphlet 1686 Habakkuk kc 4-2

Isn't it amazing how God's plan benefited both the oppressed and the oppressors?

We know that Jesus Christ shed His precious blood
and paid the price on the cross for ALL peoples and nations and tongues,
that whosoever upon repentance and belief in Him,
shall not perish but have eternal life (Jn. 3:16).

But obviously one must come to that point of repentance and acceptance of Yeshua Messiah.

To that end, our Father has a PLAN to bring as many who will to repentance, even the Chaldeans!

Did you know that?

Have we not learned from the Book of Jonah that when our Father is ready,
according to His will (His plan), be that now or when Christ returns,
that He is able to cause even the Ninevites (Assyrians, Chaldeans, etc.) to repent?

Remember how and by what means He did that?

The Ninevites worshipped and trusted in Dagon, the fish god,
and God used the very idol they believed in and trusted in, i.e. their false god,
to get their attention when He caused the "great fish"
to deliver up Jonah after he was three days and three nights in its belly.

Likewise, He turned the false gods and idols of Egypt
against the Egyptians who worshipped them
when He brought forth the plagues upon the land as judgment.

This He did not just for the sake of the children of Israel,
but also for the good of the Egyptians that they SHALL come to KNOW that their gods are not God,
that there is only One LORD God, the great "I AM"!

He even hardened Pharaoh's heart to multiply His signs and wonders in the land,
lest Pharaoh let the Israelites go at the first great miracle.

Exodus 7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

[4] But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

A study of Egyptian life reveals that they had many gods and goddesses
and many sacred objects of worship including the Nile River itself
and creatures of nature such as cattle and rams (seen on their headgear) and even frogs,
the evidence of which can be seen in the archeological discoveries which reveal amulets in the form of frogs.

But Heqt, the frog-headed goddess was not able to help them when the frogs came upon the land,
and the gods of agriculture, Isis and Seth, were helpless to save their crops,
and the god of the Nile could not turn back the bloody waters.

These gods and idols of the Egyptians all turned against them
and hurt them and became a "taunting proverb" against them,
and none but the God of Israel could relieve their tribulations.

The reason is clearly written:

[5] And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
So you can see that the plagues, the judgment of Egypt,
served a dual purpose to both deliver His people with a mighty hand
and to cause the Egyptians to know that their gods are not God.

Again, those gods and goddesses and the idols of the Egyptians
were turned against them to their own hurt but it was ultimately for their own good,
for the purpose that they may come to know that the God of Israel is indeed God.

Isn't it amazing how God's plan benefited both the oppressed and the oppressors?

How wondrous are His works indeed!

To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you accomplish both.


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