Jewish dream of world empire

Sunday, 11 March 2012

Charles Taze Russell (1852 - 1916) father of the Jehovah's Witnesses cult.

Russell wrote c.1910:

It is not so generally known, even to Christian Bible students, that the Jews entertained this idea of world empire long centuries before Nebuchadnezzar grasped earth's scepter. Fourteen hundred years before Nebuchadnezzar became the world's Emperor, God promised this honorable station to Abraham and his seed—to a nation from his loins. For Abraham's assurance and for the assurance of all afterward interested in that promise, God made oath to him, so that by two immutable things, His Word and His Oath, we and all in accord with the Divine Purpose might know of a surety that the promise or Covenant is not a conditional one—that it could not fail, that the fulfillment, though long deferred, would be sure.— Hebrews 6:18.

Those who have wondered at the indomitable spirit of the Jew which has preserved his nationality for more than thirty centuries, while other nations in many lands have bloomed and faded and died. The Chinese, indeed, do show a great persistency, yet they have no acceptable history connecting them definitely with the remote past and with creation, as have the Jews alone. The secret of this history and national persistency is found in the relationship between Israel and God. And the beginning of that relationship and dominating hope is marked by God's promise and oath to Abraham, "In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." The thought of blessing the world was not with Israel, as with other nations, merely a dream of imperial power, dignity and rich revenue. Their ambition based upon this promise made to Abraham was that they as a nation consecrated to God and accepted by God as his peculiar people would be used by the promised Messiah as his agency or channel for bringing the whole world into subjection to the Divine Law—for their moral as well as their physical blessing and uplifting out of sin and death conditions. And this hope is soon to be realized.

The Overland Monthly. Volume 55. p.326.

http://pastor-russell.pl/dziela/index.php?sub=opis&lang=uk&id=1919&rok=0

Sunday, 11 March 2012

Jewish dream of world empire

"When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel."

- David Ben-Gurion, Israeli Prime Minister