barry
05-01-2007, 07:24 AM
All that Jehovah has spoken we are willing to do.—Ex. 19:8.
Some 3,500 years ago, a whole nation assembled at the foot of Mount Sinai and made a vow to God. They looked forward to receiving his protection and living generation after generation in a land “flowing with milk and honey.” (Lev. 20:24) As the psalmist Asaph acknowledged, however, the Israelites “did not keep the covenant of God, and in his law they refused to walk.” (Ps. 78:10) Eventually, the nation lost their unique relationship with God. (Eccl. 5:4; Matt. 23:37, 38) God, therefore, “turned his attention to the nations to take out of them a people for his name.” (Acts 15:14) And in these last days, he is gathering together “a great crowd, which no man [is] able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues,” who joyfully acknowledge: “Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.”—Rev. 7:9, 10. w 4/1/06 1, 2
Some 3,500 years ago, a whole nation assembled at the foot of Mount Sinai and made a vow to God. They looked forward to receiving his protection and living generation after generation in a land “flowing with milk and honey.” (Lev. 20:24) As the psalmist Asaph acknowledged, however, the Israelites “did not keep the covenant of God, and in his law they refused to walk.” (Ps. 78:10) Eventually, the nation lost their unique relationship with God. (Eccl. 5:4; Matt. 23:37, 38) God, therefore, “turned his attention to the nations to take out of them a people for his name.” (Acts 15:14) And in these last days, he is gathering together “a great crowd, which no man [is] able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues,” who joyfully acknowledge: “Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.”—Rev. 7:9, 10. w 4/1/06 1, 2