Who Owns the Nations?
Good Morning,
If you have politically sensitive ears you might skip this lesson. It certainly will offend many in our world, although not many of the left-leaners read anything I write. Here is our verse:
Ezekiel 29:19 “Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.”
God sent Nebuchadreszzar to destroy Tyre, there was a problem from the start. Who is God to allow that? Well, God owns the nations; He made them, and He can do as He wishes. The story continues: Nebuchadrezzar and his army were never paid for their obedient efforts, and God said, since Egypt had ignored and offended Him, He would give Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar as a paycheck.
vs. 20 “I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.”
If you read your Bible at all you know that God gave Israel to Assyria, and He gave Judah to Babylon. The nations belong to God, and He can do as He wishes with them and to them.
Now you can look around the world and tell this story with the names changed however you wish, but the truth is there. At times, God gives one nation to another! I know some people are considered evil for their actions, but when it comes to the root cause, God did it, or God allowed it, or God planned it. God deals with nations. Our job is to win the individuals to Christ. Our job is to tell every person that Jesus saves; but nations, cultures, and people groups belong to God.
I cannot tell you what God did or is going to do, but I can tell you that He is Lord of Lords. Why are there almost no Gospel-preaching churches in Europe? Perhaps because of the Dark Ages when the European countries killed over 50 million Bible-believing people? How did England go from one thousand Baptist preachers working along side Charles Spurgeon to the spiritual mess it is in today? Perhaps because they left John Bunyan and countless others sitting in prison for being Bible believers and not baptizing their babies. I do not know, but I do know Who orders the events. Why is the 10/40 window so poor and so filled with suffering? I cannot say. Those nations are where they are at the hand of God, and our job is to go and tell each individual about Christ.
What about America and her rejection of the most basic moral decency we once embraced? What about America that once was filled with good Bible-preaching churches and homes where the Bible was read? If God gives away our nation to those of another nation, it is His business, not ours. Our job is to tell everyone we can about salvation.
Pastor