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MembersWhat is small, chosen, and bears a great burden?

Often underestimated, yet never alone, Israel’s destiny written in scripture and stone.

Israeli reservists at the Western Wall after a three-month deployment. Photo: Yossi Zamir/Flash90
Israeli reservists at the Western Wall after a three-month deployment. Photo: Yossi Zamir/Flash90

God makes history with the tiny nation of Israel—even during times when the people lived scattered in the diaspora for nearly 2,000 years and were finally reborn in 1948 as if by a miracle. The people of Israel survived oppression and persecution in exile and have since been fighting for survival in the Promised Land. Wherever the Jewish people live, the tiny nation must fight for its existence to keep God’s biblical promise alive. A privilege, but also a burden.

As in biblical times, today too, the nations mock the God of Israel. Freed hostages report that Palestinians mocked the God of Israel to their faces: “They told us there was no point in praying to the God of Israel,” said freed IDF soldier Liri Albag, who was kidnapped along with several other young surveillance officers during the attack on Nahal Oz on October 7. “Your God does not exist, do not pray to him. He is not on your side. He does not listen to you.” She described that one could only see evil in the...

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2 responses to “What is small, chosen, and bears a great burden?”

  1. David Adeola says:

    This is what we need to be praying now! God to show forth His power so the world will know that He is indeed the God of Israel.
    2 Kings 19:15-19
    [15] And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said: “O LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. [16] Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. [17] Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands [18] and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. [19] So now, O LORD our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, are God alone.”

    ARISE O LORD AND LET YOUR ENEMIES BE SCATTERED

  2. Esther Wischer says:

    What a true and powerful article!

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