Israel and the Church
Restoring the Identity and the Covenant "Reasons for the Exile"
By Shoshana Laniado Azadinio
Published on Apr 26 2020
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Shalom, I’m here again to talk to you about Israel and the church and today starting reading the book of Ruth. Let’s go?! From verse 1 to 6:
Ruth 1:1-6 “In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah.
They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi died and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives, the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth.
They lived there about ten years and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.
Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food “
So we see here in this story that the family left Israel because of the famine in Israel so they went to Moab and they stayed ten years there until the Lord visited Israel again and gave them bread.
So I want to talk to you about the exiles, because Israel has gone into many exiles even before Israel, if we look to the Garden of Eden we see that when Adam and Eve, they sinned, the Lord said “go out”. They were exiled from Garden of Eden so even an angel was put there and they could not enter again.
And then we see that when the sons of Jacob, they sinned they went to Egypt because there was famine in Israel and they had to go to Egypt, so they stayed 430 years there. And then we know the story when they left Egypt until they possesed the land of Israel again.
And then after that we see Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman exiles, so Israel has suffered a lot in the land of the Exile – assimilation, idolatry, but let’s understand more, why does it happen?
Why our people has to go into exile. So in Leviticus 18:25 we read:
Leviticus 18:25 “and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants”
So this is a principle, it’s a law and we cannot run away from it. I believe it’s almost like a father and a son, you know, the Lord tells us as a father: “you need to go, go there and think about it, think about what you did and then you come back and we talk”. So thank God that we can come back to him and we can come back to the Land of Israel.
Let’s see Psalm 107 :4-7. It’s so beautiful:
Psalm 107:4-7 “some wandered in desert wastes finding no way to a city to dwell in, hungry and thirsty their soul fainted within them. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from their distress he led them by a straight way till they reached a city to dwell in”
So, Lord we thank you, ABA. We thank you for what happened to Naomi and Ruth, Lord, we thank you because they were able to return to the land and to return to you Lord. And we thank you Lord because we can repent, we can cry out to you Lord anytime, and we can come back and go and run to you ABA. Thank You, bShem Yeshua!
So next time we’ll be continuing on the Book of Ruth and we will be talking about the Aliyah, the return to the land in our days and what the Church can do to help Israel in that, amen?
So see you next time, Shalom Shalom.