“For the sake of Jacob my servant, and Israel my chosen one, I have also called you by your name; I have given you a title of honor though you have not known me.” (Isaiah 45:4)

Iranians and Israelis

When the people of Israel were in the care of the ancient Iranians God offered a title of honour to an ungodly person, the Persian King, Koresh, or Cyrus. It is reasonable to connect an ungodly person with one who does not know God. Persian Zoroastrianism can be credited for many civilized advances in government. The interest in the welfare of the exiled Jewish people expressed by two Persian kings may go unmentioned in the haste to assert power in the modern era, but it must be hard to forget that a Persian king did authorize mobs of Jewish people to plunder the Persian people.

The Persian Empire is finished

The mullahs in Iran, agitating for the destruction of the state of Israel, have a short memory. Cyrus, the great, was a tool for rebuilding Jerusalem and the province of Judea. Twenty-six centuries ago Persian wealth and goodwill was a global phenomenon, and denying Israel the right to life and liberty in the 21st century is a lesson in divine justice. If you don’t believe in justice then perhaps it is a lesson in unstoppable intervention.

Darkness is widespread and deep

• Chinese bullying in the south Pacific
• Indian irresponsibly refuses to face its societal demons
• The rise of the fascist banner in Europe
• The proliferation of conservative lies and denials of historical reality
• The legal embarrassment of lawyers in the service of criminal enterprise
• Religion pulling out the wool to cover up misogyny, genocide, xenophobia and greed

The chosen can be anyone God chooses

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;”

1 Peter 2:9, NASB

“The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light will shine on them.”

Isaiah 9:2, NASB

Just suppose there was a settlement

Societies that have never exorcised their racist demons are doing everything but weep in public to express solidarity with the grieving people of Israel. Politicians of questionable moral character are lining up to condemn the brutal and heinous murder of Jewish people by Hamas. Canada has put its withered half leg in the line up of people supporting the people of Israel and condemning the terrorists. You will not read the genesis of the bloodshed over the land of Canaan in the newspapers, and the sources of Iranian hatred of the Jewish people will be found nowhere but in the Bible. The darkness is global and deep. God’s light alone is the relief.

7) The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these. 8) “Drip down, O heavens, from above, And let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit, And righteousness spring up with it. I, the Lord, have created it.”

Isaiah 45:7-8, NASB