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The prophets, as messengers of Yahweh to the nations, are examined in chapters 6 and 7. Kaiser believes Isaiah uses “Servant of the Lord” collectively and corporately to refer to the Messiah and the people of Israel (pp. 56–57) and requires the nation to act missionally, bringing justice to the nations, and being a light for the Gentiles.
God’s covenant warned from the beginning that if Israel fell into sin God would use a foreign heathen nation to bring judgment upon them. A nation would come to judge them speaking in a language they did not understand (Deuteronomy 28:49). In this period of Judah’s last kings, the Prophets warned of the fulfillment of this covenant promise.
- Noah and His Sons
- The Table of Nations
- The Tower of Babel
- Introducing Abraham
- The Theological Lesson
Genesis 9:18-28 records a curious scene. Noah got drunk and fell asleep naked in his tent. His son, Ham, took a peek at his father’s naked body and then told his brothers. His two brothers then covered their father, without looking. When Noah woke and realized what Ham had done, he cursed Ham’s son Canaan. I must confess that for many years I found...
The tenth chapter of Genesis is a genealogical record of Noah’s descendants. But it is really much more than a simple family tree. While it does include individuals, its primary purpose is to describe the historical relationships among the nations that derived from the sons of Noah.
Next to the creation and fall narrative and the flood account, the story of the Tower of Babel is likely the best-known story in the early chapters of Genesis. This story is set in Shinar, often translated as Babylonia. This was one of the areas where Nimrod, one of Ham’s grandsons, had built cities (Gen. 10:8-10). Babylon was one of those cities a...
In the earlier table of nations, it is mentioned that one of Shem’s descendants had two sons who were alive when the world was divided. For one of the sons, Joktan, the table includes his offspring and the territory where they lived (Gen. 10:25-29). But Eber had no descendants listed, just the note about the world being divided in his time. But tha...
So what is there that we can take away from this passage? Much of it seems like just a meaningless list of names. And the only interesting part is about the Tower of Babel. But what could this story possibly have to teach us today? I do think there is a rather significant lesson that is embedded here. One that appears throughout the Bible. Up to th...
God Has Spoken to Us – Question 10. The Bible says that God is behind the rise and fall of nations. It is He who guides the course of the nations and their history. His working with the nations of the world demonstrates that He does exist and that He is in control of their history. The Bible gives the following testimony:
These are the nations the LORD allowed to remain, so that through them he might test Israel, all those who had not experienced any of the Canaanite wars— NET Bible These were the nations the LORD permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel--he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites.
Aug 1, 2021 · Here is the passage in context (with just a single verse added): Deut 7.1-4 “When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you, and when the LORD ...
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Sep 30, 2021 · Israel and the Nations in the OT. In the preceding posts, we saw that God’s presence and activity were to reverberate through the whole created order (see also Scobie, “Israel and the Nations,” 286–94). God’s glory and the knowledge of him is to extend over all the universe and has regard to all the peoples of the earth.
