Dieu, la justice biblique et politiques: Chapitre 14
Troisième partie: Leçons politiques de l'histoire juive
Chapitre 14
Abraham à Moïse
The vast majority of the Old Testament focuses on political leadership. From Genesis to the prophet Isaiah, 15 de l' 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. Dans les événements historiques Dieu nous dit ce qu'ils faisaient et les prophètes ajouter les conséquences de ces choix.
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.
Les débuts tribaux
Abraham 2166-1991 Colombie-Britannique *
Abraham est né à Ur, Irak moderne, near the Euphrates river and near the location considered the likely sight of the Garden of Eden. Abraham’s family is Chaldean. Son père avait commencé à se déplacer à l'ouest de Canaan mais il s'est arrêté à Charan, Sud Est de la Turquie aujourd'hui, où il mourut à 205 ans.
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 ans, il part avec sa femme Saraï, leurs serviteurs, travailleurs et neveu Lot, arrivée à Sichem, ce que nous appelons aujourd'hui la Cisjordanie, près du mont. Ebal et le mont. Garizim.
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, avant il a eu son fils de miracle, 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.
Et pourtant,, dans son 170 ans sur la terre, ce même homme se trouve à deux dirigeants nationaux afin de se protéger et de sa richesse, 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, les tribus d'Isaac, tout au long de l'histoire humaine.
La géographie de Dieu promit à Abraham terres qui s'étendent depuis le fleuve d'Égypte, probablement le Nil, pour le grand fleuve Euphrate une zone qui s'étend éventuellement de la mer Rouge à l'est par l'Egypte, Jordan, Liban, Syrie, Israel and possibly parts of northern Saudi Arabia and much of north and south west Iraq today. This land, qui comprend plus de ce que la Genèse chapitre deux décrit comme le jardin d'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, «Que les Juifs reviennent, ils sont nos cousins et ils vont nous bénisse ".
Abraham à cette 175 ans.
Isaac 2066-1886 Colombie-Britannique *
Isaac est un enfant du miracle né de parents plus 100 years old. 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, maintenant est de la Turquie, 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 servira le plus âgé, Esau.
En dépit de toute cette grande bénédiction Isaac est, comme son père, 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. De l'autre côté, Isaac allait donner Esaü la bénédiction que Dieu avait promis à Jacob, en dépit de ce que Dieu leur avait déjà dit à propos de la direction de Jacob. Les ancêtres de ces deux grandes tribus volonté querelle à travers toute l'histoire.
Isaac meurt à 180 ans.
Jacob 2005-1859 Colombie-Britannique *
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, apparemment dans la lignée de la famille, se trouve à son père et vole ses idoles, hiding them and taking them to Canaan. His first two wives fight their entire life and his sons are a mess. They are jealous, égoïste, 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 meurt à 146 ans.
Joseph 1914-1805 Colombie-Britannique *
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, son peuple sont protégés et bénis en Egypte depuis plus de 100 ans. His two sons are given equal status with his brothers and founded two of Israel’s 12 nations tribales, Manassé et Ephraim.
Joseph ne réside pas, tricheur, 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. Il mène Israël dans la situation qui va se transformer en plus de 400 années d'esclavage. Joseph est un délinquant sexuel condamné qui a passé 13 ans de prison. Et comme son père, il rejette presque le leader choisi par Dieu dans Ephraim son fils cadet, préférant le fils Manassé plus.
Joseph mourut à 180 ans.
Moïse 1526-1406 Colombie-Britannique *
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 ans, il mène son peuple pour 40 ans dans le désert avec aucun système de soutien à l'extérieur. Et dans Matthieu cinq Jésus dit qu'il jette les bases de son message.
Avant qu'il accomplit tout ce qu'il commet assassiner, s'enfuit à l'asile politique, 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, prendre le crédit pour un miracle Dieu a accompli ce que Dieu lui interdit d'entrer dans la terre promise.
Moïse jours à 120 ans.
Comme nous terminons ce chapitre dans l'histoire politique d'Israël qui se démarque?
*Ils sont tous choisis et appelés.
*Ils ont tous des grands exploits de la foi et l'engagement personnel.
*Ils ont tous les défauts formidables et font de graves erreurs.
*Le tout avoir de graves problèmes familiaux.
*Ils apportent tous des moments très difficiles de leur histoire des nations.
*Ils ont tous des squelettes dans le placard.
Est-il possible qu'ils aient tous du mal à être élu au bureau aujourd'hui? And yet God uses them.
Il est également intéressant de noter que la stratégie de la terre en Canaan jusqu'à ce point dans l'histoire a été l'achat.
Maintenant, nous regardons l'histoire de Josué et des Juges.
