Gott, die Bibel und politische Justiz: Kapitel 14
Part Three: Politische Lehren aus der jüdischen Geschichte
Kapitel 14
Abraham Moses
The vast majority of the Old Testament focuses on political leadership. From Genesis to the prophet Isaiah, 15 der 22 books are primarily telling the story of what was happening in Israel in the political realm. In the prescriptive Laws God tells us what He wants from political leaders and the people. In den historischen Ereignissen Gott sagt uns, was sie taten, und die Propheten fügen Sie die Folgen dieser Entscheidungen.
As we fly over this vast two thousand year landscape of political leadership we are looking for God’s emphasis. What is He telling us? Why does He include these details? What are we to take from this selected history of Israel into our lives and work today? We are looking for the meaning of the history God gives us in the form of eternal values and principles of the Kingdom.
Die Tribal Beginnings
Abraham 2166-1991 V. Chr. *
Abraham in Ur geboren, heutigen Irak, near the Euphrates river and near the location considered the likely sight of the Garden of Eden. Abraham’s family is Chaldean. Sein Vater hatte begonnen, westlich nach Kanaan zu bewegen, aber aufgehört in Haran, Süd-Ost-Türkei heute, wo er starb im 205 Jahren.
Abraham is called of God to leave his extended family and tribe in Haran and set off again for Canaan. God promises him that he will father a new nation and that all the peoples of the earth will be blessed through him. At 75 Jahren macht er sich mit seiner Frau Sarai, ihre Diener, Arbeiter und Neffen Lot, Ankunft in Sichem, was wir heute als die Westbank, in der Nähe von Mt. Ebal und Mt. Gerizim.
Abram is a good man. He builds alters and worships the Most High God, he gives the better land to his selfish nephew Lot when they part. He fights to free Lot from his political enemies and refuses any blunder from the war. He believes God will give him an heir late in life and is willing to offer this same child as a sacrifice if that is what God is saying. At 99, bevor er hatte seinen Sohn Wunder, Abraham believes God and performs the first rite of circumcision on all the males of his clan including himself. This patient man rescues his nephew a second time from the violence of Sodom and Gomorrah. He understands God’s heart to bless nations and pleads for all the mercy God is able to extend to its villainous people.
Und doch, in seinem 170 Jahren auf der Erde, derselbe Mann liegt auf zwei Staats-und Regierungschefs, um sich und seinen Reichtum zu schützen, the Pharaoh of Egypt and King Abimilech of the Philistines. He laughs at the promise of God for a child in old age. It is Abraham that gives us the concubine solution, which produces his heir Ishmael who will also be promised by God of the blessing of a great nation through his sons. And these tribes will be at war with their cousins, die Stämme von Isaac, alle durch die menschliche Geschichte.
Die Geographie der Gott versprach Abraham Ländereien, die von dem Wasser Ägyptens verlängern, wahrscheinlich der Nil, auf den großen Strom Euphrat einem Gebiet, das möglicherweise erstreckt sich vom Roten Meer nach Osten durch Ägypten, Jordan, Libanon, Syrien, Israel and possibly parts of northern Saudi Arabia and much of north and south west Iraq today. This land, welches das meiste, was Genesis Kapitel zwei beschreibt, wie der Garten Eden, will never all belong to the heirs of Isaac but most of it will be inhabited by the ancestors of Abraham through Isaac and Ishmaels sons and later the heirs of Jacob and Esau. In the late 1940’s the King of Jordan will be quoted as saying, "Lasst die Juden kommen zurück, sie sind unsere Cousins und sie wird uns segnen. "
Abraham dies at 175 Jahren.
Isaac 2066-1886 V. Chr. *
Isaac ist ein Wunder Kind geboren, um Eltern über 100 Jahre. He inherits Abraham’s promise from God that his ancestors will become a great nation and that nation will bless all the nations of the world. He grows up among the Hittite people from whom his father has bought land. He settles in what would now be the southern most boarder of Israel. God miraculously provides the wife from his fathers’ people near Haran, Jetzt Südosten der Türkei, in the land of the Amorites. Rebekah is Aramean and she is promised that she will give birth to two nations and the younger, Jacob wird dazu dienen die ältere, Esau.
Trotz all dieser großen Segen Isaac liegt, wie sein Vater, to Abimilech King of the Philistines. He breaks the treaty his father has made with Abimilech and then makes a new one, fearing God is unable to protect him. His beautiful wife proceeds to poison their son Jacob with the need to lie, manipulate and deceive their father in order to get the blessing God had already promised to him. Andererseits, Isaac geben wollte Esau den Segen Gottes zu Jacob trotz allem, was Gott hatte sie bereits über Jakobs Führung gesagt hatte versprochen. Die Vorfahren dieser beiden großen Stämme werden Fehde durch die ganze Geschichte.
Isaac stirbt bei 180 Jahren.
Jacob 2005-1859 V. Chr. *
Jacob has an impressive beginning. While still in his mother’s womb God chooses him to lead his tribe. He gets a double blessing from his father, Isaac. On his way to his mother’s family in Haran, God sends Angels in a dream to promise that his ancestors will multiply greatly and through them God will bless all the peoples of the earth. Jacob works very hard for 14 years to obtain his Uncle Laban’s daughters in marriage and God blesses them both with children. Jacob’s business prospers as well as the uncle he serves. When Jacob returns to Canaan with his family God sends an Angel for a second time to wrestle with and bless Him. He is crippled in the encounter but he is also changed and God gives him the name Israel. He reconciles with Esau on his return and buys land from the Philistines in Shechem and settles there.
As blessed and called of God as Jacob is there are areas of his life that are a disaster. He lies to his father and steals his brother’s birthright and blessing. He tries magic to multiply his flock when God has already told him that He will bless him. His wife, scheinbar in der Familie nach Linie, liegt zu ihrem Vater und stiehlt seine Idole, hiding them and taking them to Canaan. His first two wives fight their entire life and his sons are a mess. They are jealous, selbstsüchtig, treacherous and violent. They think to murder their little brother Joseph but decide selling him would be more profitable. They lie to the Shecimites and then commit genocide of the male population in order to build their own wealth. Jacob astutely understands this will turn all the tribes in Canaan against them and flees to Bethel the place where God first spoke to him.
Jacob stirbt bei 146 Jahren.
Joseph 1914-1805 V. Chr. *
God singles out Joseph early on to lead his tribe. He is adored by his father as the son of his first love, Rachel. He is a diligent and honest worker. Although sold by his brothers into slavery, he keeps His trust in God and God exalts him in his work. He is honorable when solicited by his boss’s wife but thrown in prison anyway. He keeps serving God and is blessed again in his work in prison. Because of his relationship with God and the blessing of fellow prisoners he is singled out by the Pharaoh to interpret a dream. Not only does God tell him the dream and the meaning, Joseph is successful in saving the lives of all the other pagan magicians. Pharaoh makes him second in State and puts him over all of His affairs including disaster relief.
Joseph is used by God to save the nations of Egypt and Israel from financial ruin and starvation. Because of Joseph, seine Leute geschützt und gesegnet in Ägypten seit mehr als 100 Jahre. His two sons are given equal status with his brothers and founded two of Israel’s 12 tribal Nationen, Manasse und Ephraim.
Joseph lügt nicht, betrügen, steal or dishonor for personal gain until his brothers come to Egypt for financial help. Joseph becomes unrecognizable with displays of emotion that alert the whole Palace. He lies and manipulates to get his brothers and father back to Egypt even when he has all the power of Egypt to make that happen. Er führt Israel in die Situation, die in mehr als wiederum 400 Jahre der Sklaverei. Joseph ist ein verurteilter Sexualstraftäter, die verbrachte 13 Jahre im Gefängnis. Und wie sein Vater, den er fast lehnt Gottes auserwähltes Marktführer im Ephraim seinen jüngeren Sohn, lieber den älteren Sohn Manasse.
Joseph starb im 180 Jahren.
Moses 1526-1406 V. Chr. *
Toward the end of Israel’s slavery in Egypt God miraculously spares Moses from the genocide of his generation and raises him up as political liberator and leader. Pharaoh’s daughter rescues him from a basket in the Nile and raises him in Pharaoh’s Palace. He is a natural leader. He brings all of Israel and other slaves out of Egypt to freedom with no army or formal government to back him. He receives the Laws from God and builds the foundations for discipling nations. He forms Israel’s first government and priesthood. He builds the Tabernacle. He sees God face to face and performs dramatic miracles that provide food and water for more than 3,000,000 refugees in the wilderness. Beginning at 80 Jahren führt er sein Volk 40 Jahre in der Wüste, ohne Unterstützung von außen System. Und in fünf Matthew Jesus sagt, dass er den Grundstein für seine Botschaft legt.
Bevor er dies alles vollbringt er einen Mord begeht, flieht auf politisches Asyl, and marries a Midianite whose father is a pagan priest. He nearly dies because he has failed to circumcise his sons. His stepbrother Pharaoh and the elders of Israel reject him as the leader for years. Millions of lives are lost and billions in property value will be devestated in Egypt under his leadership. He fears failure, fears public speaking and sees Israel build a Golden Calf under his brother Aaron’s leadership. He responds in such anger and frustration, unter Kredit für ein Wunder Gottes, dass Gott ihn durchgeführt, um das Versprechen Land zu betreten verbietet.
Moses Tage bei 120 Jahren.
Als wir dieses Kapitel beenden in der politischen Geschichte Israels Auffällig?
*Sie sind alle erwählt und berufen.
*Sie alle haben große Taten des Glaubens und das persönliche Engagement.
*Sie alle haben furchtbare Fehler und machen schwere Fehler.
*Die haben alle große familiäre Probleme.
*Sie alle bringen sehr schwierigen Zeiten, um ihre Völker Geschichte.
*Sie haben alle Leichen im Keller.
Ist es möglich, sie alle haben eine harte Zeit zu Büro wird heute gewählt? And yet God uses them.
Es ist auch interessant zu bemerken, dass das Land in Kanaan Strategie bis zu diesem Punkt in der Geschichte wurde den Kauf.
Jetzt schauen wir uns die Geschichte von Josua und die Richter.
