Sid Roth
for what God wants. Whether I’m the president of the United States, or whether I sweep streets the issue is, if I am not on God’s side I have nothing.
Psalm 105 tells you what God’s position is, and just because God has this position does not mean that He does not weep for every Palestinian that could be starving or could die. God loves the Palestinians; God loves the Jews; God so loved the whole earth that He sent His Son to die. But the issue is He has a strategy and a plan, it is His kingdom, He is King, it is not a democracy, we don’t vote, but when we get to heaven and know everything we’ll understand the wisdom and the love involved in the way He set up His kingdom. But it is His kingdom that is at stake, and this is what the King says about His kingdom in reference to the covenant land of Israel. Psalm 105 verse 8-11:
He remembers His covenant forever
Of course God remembers His covenant forever.
The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations
Isn’t that interesting, He says “forever” then in case you can’t visualize forever He says “we’ll take a thousand generations.” This is the covenant, the 9th verse:
The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac
It was not with Ishmael it was with Isaac. He made His oath to Isaac and confirmed it to Jacob. So it went through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For how long, forever? For how long, a thousand generations? Then He says,
This is the statute to Israel, it’s everlasting this covenant
So He says “Forever, a thousand generations, everlasting.” If He states it 3 times it must be important. This is what that covenant, and when God makes a covenant you’ve got a covenant that you can trust. He says:
To you
Who’s you? Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their physical seed.
To you I will give the land of Canaan
That’s Israel. For how long will God give the land of Canaan? For how long will God give the land of Israel to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their physical seed? He say it 3 times “Forever, a thousand generations, everlasting.” As far as I’m concerned that settles it.
Today is Purim, it’s a time that we honor what could have been the worst time in the history of Jewish people, but God performed a miracle. God is a God of miracles, and I believe that sometime this week there will be a burst of God’s dunamis, dynamite power, and miracles will take place in your life.
But I’m reminded of one of my favorite Purim times. Several years ago I went to Kiev, now Kiev is in Ukraine and they have the largest Messianic Jewish congregation in the world. In this congregation, it’s what I call a One New Man congregation because it’s not classically Messianic Jewish, it’s not classically Gentile Christian, it’s classically Jesus, it’s a One New Man. It’s really what Paul was talking about in the second chapter of Ephesians in which Paul tells us why Jesus came. Jesus came to break down the middle wall of separation between Jews and Gentiles to make One New Man. In a One New Man congregation they observe the Biblical festivals not as a means of salvation, not as a means of righteousness, but as a means of blessing, as a means of having appointments with God. On the whole year the various Biblical festivals, and of course Purim isn’t listed in Leviticus as one of the 7 major festivals but it does say in the book of Esther that we Jewish people are supposed to observe it forever, but God promised to show up at these Biblical festivals.
