Deus, Justiça Bíblia e Políticos: Capítulo 14
Parte III: As lições políticas da História Judaica
Capítulo 14
Abraão a Moisés
The vast majority of the Old Testament focuses on political leadership. From Genesis to the prophet Isaiah, 15 do 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. Nos eventos históricos Deus nos diz o que eles fizeram e os profetas adicione as consequências dessas escolhas.
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.
Os Primórdios tribais
Abraham 2166-1991 AC *
Abraão nasceu em Ur, atual Iraque, near the Euphrates river and near the location considered the likely sight of the Garden of Eden. Abraham’s family is Chaldean. Seu pai começou a se mover para oeste a Canaã, mas parou em Haran, Sudeste da Turquia hoje, onde morreu em 205 anos de idade.
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 anos de idade, ele sai com sua esposa Sarai, seus servos, trabalhadores e sobrinho Lot, chegando em Siquém, o que hoje chamamos Cisjordânia, perto do Monte. Ebal e Monte. 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, antes ele teve seu filho milagre, 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.
E ainda, na sua 170 anos na terra, este mesmo homem está a dois líderes nacionais, a fim de proteger a si mesmo e sua riqueza, 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, as tribos de Isaac, toda a história humana.
A geografia de Deus prometeu a Abraão terras que se estendem desde o rio do Egito, provavelmente o Nilo, para o grande rio Eufrates uma área que se estende possivelmente a partir do Mar Vermelho a leste pelo Egito, Jordânia, Líbano, Síria, Israel and possibly parts of northern Saudi Arabia and much of north and south west Iraq today. This land, que compreende mais do que Gênesis capítulo dois descreve como o Jardim do Éden, 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 os judeus voltar, eles são nossos primos e eles vão nos abençoar ".
Abraham neste 175 anos de idade.
Isaac 2066-1886 AC *
Isaac é uma criança prodígio nascido de pais mais 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, agora sudeste da Turquia, 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 vai servir os mais velhos, Esaú.
Apesar de toda essa grande bênção Isaac está, como seu pai fez, 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. Por outro lado, Isaac ia dar Esaú a bênção que Deus prometeu a Jacó a despeito do que Deus já lhes havia dito sobre a liderança de Jacob. Os ancestrais desses dois grandes tribos vontade briga em toda a história.
Isaac morre 180 anos de idade.
Jacob 2005-1859 AC *
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, aparentemente seguindo a linha da família, encontra-se a seu pai e rouba seus ídolos, hiding them and taking them to Canaan. His first two wives fight their entire life and his sons are a mess. They are jealous, egoísta, 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 morre 146 anos de idade.
Joseph 1914-1805 AC *
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, seu povo são protegidos e abençoados no Egito por mais de 100 anos. His two sons are given equal status with his brothers and founded two of Israel’s 12 nações tribais, Manassés e Efraim.
Joseph não se encontra, trapacear, 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. Ele leva Israel a situação que vai se transformar em mais do que 400 anos de escravidão. Joseph é um criminoso sexual condenado que passou 13 anos de prisão. E, assim como seu pai, ele quase rejeita o líder escolhido por Deus em Efraim, seu filho mais novo, preferindo o filho mais velho de Manassés.
Joseph morreu 180 anos de idade.
Moisés 1526-1406 AC *
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 anos de idade, ele lidera seu povo para 40 anos no deserto com nenhum sistema de apoio externo. E em Mateus cinco Jesus diz que Ele é a base para sua mensagem.
Antes que ele realiza tudo isso ele comete assassinato, foge para o asilo político, 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, tomar crédito de um Deus milagre que Deus o proíbe de entrar na terra prometida.
Moses dias a 120 anos de idade.
À medida que terminar este capítulo na história política de Israel, que se destaca?
*Eles são todos escolhidos e chamados.
*Todos eles têm grandes feitos de fé e compromisso pessoal.
*Todos eles têm falhas enormes e cometer erros graves.
*A todos têm grandes problemas familiares.
*Todos eles trazem tempos muito difíceis para a história das nações.
*Todos eles têm esqueletos no armário.
É possível que eles têm um tempo difícil de ser eleito para o cargo hoje? And yet God uses them.
Também é interessante notar que a estratégia de terra em Canaã até este ponto da história foi a compra.
Agora vamos olhar para a história de Josué e os Juízes.
