God knows everything that happened, is happening, or will ever happen in the world. He owns the world, and nothing can happen outside of His knowledge, especially with Israel His chosen people. His plan in the call of Abraham was to bless him and make him a great nation and through them to bless the world. Their key assignment was to witness to the world to make known the Lord so that all might worship and serve Him.
Unfortunately, God’s chosen people were unfaithful and did not stay true to their task. Instead, they were influenced into embracing other gods and enticed into all sorts of abominable practices. To bring them back to Himself, God used foreign forces to discipline them. After the time of discipline, God restored them to the land.
In the divine drama, Israel had been and continues to be a key
player in the unfolding of God’s plan. What they have gone through and will go through
are all parts of God's plan.
In the first six verses Ezekiel 38, we saw how Gog and his allies
would come against God’s people. The text made it clear that they were but
pawns in God’s hand. And they would attack Israel at some point when the people
of God had securely settled in their restored land.
In verses 7-9, we see God commanding the enemies to prepare themselves
for the joint attack that they would be bringing upon God’s people. At the
right time, God would be summoning them to do their task. The battle God said would
be a huge one as described in verse 9. “You will go up, you will come like
a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your
troops, and many peoples with you.”
Just as nothing can happen to Israel without His knowledge, nothing
can also happen to us without His knowing. No matter how difficult our circumstances may be remember God is using them to shape Christlikeness in us.
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