Look around at the nations - Part 3

“The Lord replied, “Look astir astatine the nations; look and beryllium amazed! For I americium doing thing successful your ain day, thing you wouldn’t judge adjacent if idiosyncratic told you astir it,” (Habakkuk 1:5 NLT).

That God is funny successful what happens successful the nations is beyond questions. After all, He is sovereign! The nations are the scoreboard for knowing the end-time prophecies and the show of God’s mighty acts. As we said, beryllium it the “people groups,” which is the New Testament scriptural explanation of nations oregon the governmental and geographical delineation of nations, God is funny successful them all. To immoderate degree, the happenings successful the nations are immoderate of the ways of measuring and knowing what God is doing successful the world. This is wherefore intercessors should intentionally commune for the nations and effort to discern and recognize what is happening successful the nations too.

Long earlier the New Testament, the Psalmist successful assorted passages had ever drawn our attraction to God’s plans and enactment successful the nations.

In Psalm 2:8 we read: “Ask of me, and I shall springiness thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the world for thy possession.” This substance shows that the nations beryllium to God, and He gives it to those who petition Him successful prayer. It is simply a representation of the narration betwixt supplication and asking, and however the ends of the world beryllium to Christ. We besides spot however the Son of God volition regularisation implicit each nations and the extremity of the earth. The verse points guardant to Jesus, who is positioned arsenic the King of the nations. The transition further predicts that the Messiah volition someday interruption rebellious nations with an robust rod, and urges the kings and rulers of the world to taxable to the Son’s rule.

Psalm 46:10 besides talks astir the nations. It reads: “Be still, and cognize that I americium God; I volition beryllium exalted among the nations, I volition beryllium exalted successful the earth!” The Psalmist wants america to beryllium soundless and to cognize that God volition beryllium exalted successful the nations. God is progressive successful the nations and we person to beryllium remainder assured that His purposes volition yet triumph successful the nations. God ne'er stops moving successful the nations of the earth.

In Psalm 67:1-2, we read: “God beryllium merciful to america and bless us, and origin His look to radiance upon us, that Your mode whitethorn beryllium known connected earth, Your salvation among each nations.” This Psalm has been described arsenic a missionary Psalm.

The psalmist wanted the blessings truthful that God’s ways whitethorn beryllium known to everyone connected the earth. He wanted to beryllium a witnesser of who God is.

The lone mode radical connected this world volition cognize who God is and what He is like, is by the witnesser of those who cognize Him. Seeing a believer and proceeding the grounds of what God is doing successful his beingness volition bash much than anything. But the believer indispensable beryllium consenting to constituent radical to God, not conscionable look astatine the things helium is blessed with.

It is not a specified coincidence that the Bible starts with God’s committedness to marque Abram a large federation and to person nations originate from him and ends with the Lord providing means for the healing of the nations. (Genesis 12:1-3; 17:6; Revelation 22:2). This, perhaps, is the strongest impervious that God is funny successful the nations and has plans for the nations.

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