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  (SERMON CLIP) GOD'S DEALINGS WITH ISRAEL AND HIS THEOCRATIC RULE
  by Art Katz
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the future restoration of Israel as a
pivotal part of God's redemptive plan for all nations. It highlights the
necessity for the redeemed of the Lord to return to Zion for God's
theocratic rule to be established, purging out rebels and constituting a
remnant that will survive through God's mercy. The message stresses the
importance of recognizing God's righteous judgment and the ultimate need
for redemption through Him.

Topics: "Restoration of Israel", "God's Redemptive Plan"
Scripture References: Ezekiel 20:42, Ezekiel 20:44, Isaiah 1:27, Romans 11:5, Ezekiel 20:38

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This sermon emphasizes the future restoration of Israel as a pivotal
part of God's redemptive plan for all nations. It highlights the
necessity for the redeemed of the Lord to return to Zion for God's
theocratic rule to be established, purging out rebels and constituting a
remnant that will survive through God's mercy. The message stresses the
importance of recognizing God's righteous judgment and the ultimate need
for redemption through Him.

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We need to recognize that what is being described is not something of
Israel's past, but something of Israel's future. How do you know what?
Because it says, and you shall know that I am the Lord. This is what is
required for that knowing.

Nothing less. It's not God being arbitrary, God being cruel, it's God
being righteous. And meeting out what is exactly necessary, knowing the
condition of this people and judging them for their sin, and yet meeting
them in the judgment and revealing himself to them that they might
constitute the redeemed of the Lord that return to Zion.

I tell you, if the redeemed of the Lord do not return to Zion, the Lord
himself will not be their king on the holy hill of Zion, and we will
still have to contend with lousy human governments and warfare and
vexation in the nations. They'll not study war no more until he rules.
The issue of Israel's restoration is the issue of the theocratic rule of
God.

We're not talking only about the fate of an ethnic group, we're talking
about the conclusion of God's redemptive cosmic plan for the nations, in
which he insists that this one nation be the pivot and the locus of his
government over all nations. I will rule over you, and over them. I will
purge out the rebels from among you that transgress against me.

By the way, are you hearing okay in the back? Is there enough volume?
Yeah? I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and
they shall not enter into the land of Israel. You should know that I am
the Lord. I suspect that the rebels will constitute the greater part of
world Jewry, and will not survive the process of attrition of those last
days.

It will be a remnant that constitute the restored nation. And here's the
point for you. There'll be no remnant at all that could survive at all,
except for the mercy received through you in the wilderness of the
nations.

You say, what part of New Zealand are you talking about? Some little
known remote section? Well, as I said earlier today in my last visit to
New Zealand, as I was speaking on this subject, the Lord impressed me to
say to the hearers, the whole of New Zealand is a wilderness among the
nations. You're different.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/oQN9C3BGXp8.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/art-katz/sermon-clip-gods-dealings-with-israel-and-his-theocratic-rule/
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