Introduction: Page 7


Past consequences for the continuous Gentile rebellious spirit toward God were: banishment from the Garden of Eden, the great flood, confounding of the language, separation of the earth’s plates.
 
Having set His work with the Gentiles aside, for the next 2,000 years, God worked through the Nation of Israel, first establishing His unconditional Abrahamic Covenant.
 
Abraham’s demonstration of saving faith is an example of what pleases God in all dispensations, faith in whatever God tells you to be true for you in the dispensation in which you are living.
 
God promised to Abraham the future physical blessing of all the lands he would walk through and reclaim from Satan. 
The whole earth would be blessed by the seed of Abraham; the Nation of Israel and the future coming Messiah.
 
Abraham and his family would be a special people, a chosen people and a light to the Gentiles.
 
In the book of Exodus, we learn that Abraham’s descendants would be a Nation of Priests.
 
In time God would establish another unconditional covenant, the Davidic Covenant; a descendent of King David would sit on a throne in Jerusalem in the prophesied kingdom on earth.

When Moses delivered the descendants of Abraham from Egypt, the Church in the Wilderness was established.
 
For 40 years, God gave this church guidance and instruction and established the conditional Old Mosaic Covenant which had some 600 moral and civil laws, a blood sacrificial system, and a tabernacle design. 
This was a conditional covenant that came with the IF/THEN principle.
 
God judged Israel’s faithfulness and rewarded or punished the nation with physical blessings and curses.
 
The Old Mosaic Covenant revealed to the individual and to the Nation of Israel their sinful nature and their need for and means by which they could restore a right relationship with God.

Under Joshua, the Nation of Israel was established in the Promise Land.
 
Judges ruled for 325-350 years until the nation rebelled and wanted to have a king like other nations.
 
Choosing not to be a theocracy ruled by God but by a man, Saul was chosen to be the first king.
 
King David was followed by his son Solomon who built the temple in Jerusalem, and then by his son, King Rehoboam, who ruled two tribes in the Southern Kingdom.
 
The Northern Kingdom, comprised of the other ten tribes of Israel, choose to have their own king, King Jeroboam, and rebelled against God and the united Davidic Kingdom by not coming to Jerusalem for their worship, but established a sort of calf worship—one golden calf in Bethel and one in Dan.
 
Open rebellion persisted against God, and both the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom sought the gods of the surrounding nations.
 
Under the conditional cursing associated with the Old Mosaic Covenant, the Northern ten tribes were carried away to Assyria, and the two Southern tribes to Babylon.
 
Under the decree of King Cyrus, a Gentile, after 70 years, some of those in Babylon were sent back to Israel to rebuild the temple and the city wall of Jerusalem.
 
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