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So God keeps some of His promises and \u2018everlasting\u2019 is date stamped? Time to re-trace Israel\u2019s prophetic footprints\u2026 !<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why does the church have trouble with Israel when we confess the Lord God of Israel as Saviour? Do we, as \u2018Bible-believers\u2019, realise how much we matter to God \u2013 and how much it matters to God that He matters to us? <\/em> \u2018Lest we forget\u2019, are we aware how much it matters to God, that what matters to him, should matter to us? <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Israel \u2013 blind until\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Who brought the good news to the world? Who gave it to God-made Israel to give it to the nations of the earth? We know the answers; they can be traced to only one door. The footprint prophecies regarding Israel\u2019s future as a nation, through the cold centuries of rejection, lead to the open door of God, which He has never closed. True, Israel is disobedient but, according to God\u2019s word, while the door of God is presently open to the world, he has, for now, closed Israel\u2019s eyes. Isaiah 29: 9-12 explains this: \u201cThe Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes (the Prophets) and covered your heads (the seers). And the vision of all this is like the cover of a book that is sealed. When it is given to one who can read, \u2018Read this\u2019 he says, \u2018I cannot read it for it is sealed.\u2019 And when they give to one who cannot read, he says, \u2018I cannot read.\u2019\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n So God keeps some of His promises and \u2018everlasting\u2019 is date stamped? Time to re-trace Israel\u2019s prophetic footprints\u2026 ! Why does the church have trouble […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}