All Nations are His ?

We recently came across someone who liked to pull our arguments out of context and try to discredit what we said. This is rather amusing for us, and not worth a rebuttal, but one statement was made that we would like to comment on. This person said in connection with Ezekiel 23 and God not being ashamed of portraying Himself as a polygamist, that this whole passage was about the nations of Israel and Judah, and those nations being "His" could by no means be taken as an image of marriage since all nations were His, after all, because all creation was His.

Hmmm...

Well, I do believe that it is not difficult to find a verse (or hundreds) in the bible that say that God's chosen people were the children of Israel, and that He chose them over all other nations. It should be similarly clear from reading the book of Joshua, for example, that peoples like those God sent the Israelites against were the enemies of God's people, hence not "His". In Deu 32:8 we find that God allotted the other nations to the sons of God - for a closer explanation of this whole concept you might want to turn to Michael S. Heiser and his website - while Jacob was His allotment...

So the statement that all nations are His since all creation is His is rather silly. Of course all creation is His, and from all creation God picked one nation to be His own, and set it against all other nations that were sinful and evil in their ways. And when Jesus came, He came to call the lost sheep of Israel, those that are able to hear His voice, and not just everybody.

We know that people are very uncomfortable with the idea that there will always only ever be a remnant, but if you go by what the bible says, that's the truth, whether you like it or not.

Oh, and by the way: None of this has anything to do with polygamy, of course, or with the fact that God chooses this image to illustrate His relationship to His chosen people, and their idolatry, in Ezekiel 23.


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