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THE INHERITED LIE
By Otis Sellers
The prophet Jeremiah received from the Lord God a revelation of the punishment that He would send upon the kingdom of Judah. The southern kingdom was to suffer the same experience that the ten-tribe northern kingdom had gone through a century before. They too would be cast out of their land and go into exile and captivity. The prospect was a bleak one indeed. However, at the same time Jeremiah received a revelation of their repatriation and restoration by means of a divine miracle that would outshine in glory their miraculous deliverance from the land of Egypt.By Otis Sellers
'Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said,
the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
but, the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north,
and from all lands whither He had driven them:
and I will bring them again into their own land that I gave unto their fathers.'
(Jer. 16: 14, 15.)
This revelation of their miraculous restoration to God and to their land caused Jeremiah to burst forth in a declaration of adoration and majestic truth that is unsurpassed in the Old Testament:-
'0 LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction,
the Gentiles (the nations) shall come unto Thee from the ends of the earth,
and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.'
(Jer. 16: 19.)
All who believe the Bible to be the Word of God, and who make their faith in it to be active and working by making a constant study of it, if honest, will have to make the confession that we too have inherited many lies. And it will be my purpose in this study to deal with one of these which I feel is the worst, the emptiest, and the most unprofitable lie of all. This is the lie: that the two and one-half million Israelites who lived in the land of Palestine between A.D. 1 and 33 rejected and repudiated the man Christ Jesus, refused to listen to His teachings, rejected Him as their Messiah, and finally crucified Him. Growing out of this lie is the further falsehood that for this they were severed from God as a people, that for almost 2,000 years. they have constantly suffered at His hand for this sin,and that after the crucifixion Israel has no place in God's plan. This monumental falsehood needs to be recognized, confessed, and repudiated by all who now profess to be believers in and followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. It also needs to be exposed by having the white light of God's Word turned upon it; and this I intend to do by means of plain, easily understood facts from the New Testament. ... ... ...
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In Christ Jesus
Chris