Title: History of the two nations
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⇒ If you look at the tree that lives on the ground, it is a fruit. leaves. Branch. nest. made of roots Although their appearance and location are different, they are all connected as one body. Wherever the tree is cut, it is the same component from the same seed. What begins with a seed takes root in the ground, and from that root a bud grows to form a large tree.
There are many countries and countless peoples in the world. The countries and peoples that made up 6 billion people did not happen overnight. It has its roots in a family that started from scratch. They grew more and more and formed tribes, then established a nation and became a nation. Today's world has come from living in different lifestyles, and each nation has its own history. Abraham had a son at the age of 100 following the promise of God's blessing. he is Isaac Before that, Abraham listened to his wife Sarah and bore a son to a maidservant named Hagar, whose name was Ishmael. Their descendants are the Arab people who continue to be enemies of the people of Israel. At first, he was happy that he had a son and thought that Ishmael was also a blessing from God. But when he received the real God promised son Isaac as a blessing, Ishmael was no longer a blessing. It was a stumbling block to Isaac's future, and he was worried that Ishmael did not know what to do with Isaac. Therefore, even though it seems that doing things with the human mind and the lust of the flesh seems to work, it is not a blessing. Rather, it is a sin that goes against God's will, and it is a pain that grieves the heart.
Amalek thought that Israel must be victorious and that they were the eternal enemies that must be destroyed. The Israelites lived in the land of Egypt for 430 years and then came out to go to Canaan. When they crossed the Red Sea and came to the Wilderness of Sin, they ran out of food and had no water. The people wandered in the wilderness, complaining against God and Moses, and drank the living water God had given them from the rock. There were people who were looking for the opportunity that the Israelites were tired, drinking water and being vigilant. They were the army of the Amalekites. They raided and killed the weary and took what they had. However, Joshua's army, which God fought, defeated the Amalekites and destroyed them. The Amalekites were obstacles to God's work, and because they prevented the Israelites from going to the land of Canaan, they became historical enemies that God fought with them from generation to generation (Exodus 17:13-16).
When the 12 tribes of the descendants of Jacob entered the land of Canaan, there was a man who became the first king in the nation of Israel, and he was King Saul of the tribe of Benjamin. God spoke through the prophet Samuel. 'King Saul mobilized the army of Israel to attack the nation of Amalek, but do not leave either man or beast alive, but kill them all' (1 Samuel 15:1-3). However, King Saul was timid and greedy, so he left some of the best beasts and took Agag king of Amalek without killing him. Samuel killed King Agag, but King Saul's passive response lost the opportunity to annihilate Amalek.
Haman in today's verse is the surviving descendant of Agag, king of Amalek. Because King Saul did not obey God's word, after the kingdom of Judah fell, the descendants of King Agag who survived in a foreign land became enemies and met again. But the problem is that the enemy Haman has the power to become the Prime Minister of Persia, and the people of Judah have no power. Just as God fights and Joshua's Israeli army wins, the people of Judah need God to fight to survive. If you lose the opportunity God has given you, difficulties will come. When you give a chance to succeed, if you don't hold onto it, you continue to live in the swamp of failure. If we leave the sins and bad habits to be broken by each person as they are, it creates a crisis that destroys our lives.
Mordecai was from the tribe of Benjamin, a descendant of Jacob. Even if the country is destroyed, he is a Jew, and even if he comes to a foreign land and lives in an idolatrous culture, he is a separate people who only serve God. Mordecai knows who is the brother, who is the friend, and who is the enemy to fight for his life and overcome. A fool does not know who should live together as a brother. I don't know who my friends are with me. We do not know who the enemy must be defeated. The enemy of Mordecai, a Judahite from the southern country, was not from the northern country of Israel. Neither Babylonia nor Persia, which destroyed the kingdom of Judah in the past. Babylonia has fallen, and Persia now does not harm the people of Judah. God is moving the king of Persia to help the people of Judah.
There is another enemy. He is a spiritual enemy who hinders faith in God. Amalek attacked the kingdom of God, Israel. He forbade them to go to Canaan. The Amalekites and the Israelites can never be at peace. Even now, the devil, the enemy of God, opposes God and attacks the Church of the Kingdom of God. They attack with disease and attack with sin, corrupting the saints with corruption. If this is left as it is, the individual, the kingdom of God, will collapse, the family will collapse, the church will collapse, and the nation will eventually collapse.
Another spiritual enemy is the fleshly man in man. It is human greed that dries up the grace of God and continues to hinder our spiritual faith in coming to God. It is the carnal thought that I want to enjoy sin and play as I please. The carnal mind is hostile to God (Romans 8:5-8). Jacob and Esau are different, Mordecai and Haman are different. The spiritual thoughts that come from God and the fleshly thoughts that come from Satan are different. It is the 'man of the flesh' who must fight and win for the rest of his life until the day he reaches God. Carnal people cannot please God. Because my enemies are not in me who fights, but my brothers and friends on the outside. The only way to overcome me is the power of the blood of Jesus, who shed His blood on the cross for my sins. It is the authority in the name of Jesus who overcame sin and death and broke the authority of the devil. The name of Jesus makes me triumphant. Faith in Jesus saves me and enables me to enjoy the spiritual blessings of heaven.