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A Long Way Home
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Hundreds of thousands of people were stranded all over the world when the dust from Eyjafjallajökull – an erupting volcano in Iceland – spread across large parts of European airspace. It stopped or impeded commercial flights for six days and led to the unprecedented closure of many of Europe’s major airports because of fears that the volcanic dust would damage jet engines and thus endanger life.
Many days after the ash cloud had been declared safe, as the wind direction changed and the eruption eased, many were left counting the cost. Families were still stranded: sleeping at airports, staying on in costly hotels, trying to get a flight home. Airlines were working out what the disruption had cost them in lost business, extra meals, or accommodation costs. Governments were left to consider their position as they were said to have overreacted to the potential danger and to have restricted flying unnecessarily. But other travellers will have tales to tell their children and grandchildren for years to come about how they got home, despite a volcano!
The Nation of Israel and the Land of Promise
Israel: God's People? God's Land?
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THE old man stood high on the hillside, the Israelites below him hushed and expectant as they waited for him to continue. These were his people, the flock he had shepherded for over 40 years. Moses' voice rang clear through the desert air: "The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth" (Deuteronomy 7:6).
The idea that God has a special relationship with the nation of Israel does not go down well today. Our society is pre-occupied with equality and equal opportunity. Why should God choose one nation out of the many that fill the globe? What is so special about that tiny strip of land between the continents, the country we now call Israel, for which He seems to have such a deep regard?
During the last hundred years or so we have all witnessed an extraordinary re-gathering of the children of Israel. So amazing that it could well be described as a modern-day miracle! From a scriptural perspective this has been monumental, for the restoration of Israel is central to the establishment of the Kingdom of God. Moreover, this was something the apostles all fervently believed, which is why they asked the famed question (just moments before their Master ascended into heaven to be with his heavenly Father): “Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” (Acts 1:6). In this short question we see God’s plan: the nation of Israel once possessed the kingdom and, when Jesus returns, will possess it once again!
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