Amazingly much like that Israel was in that day.
And that is where I see the broader application of that nation in that what went on in it amazingly parallels what we see within the boarders of the combined churches today.
But not everyone is Israel...
Deuteronomy 7:6:For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself,
above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Leviticus 20:24:But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey:
I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
Galatians 4:3-6:[sup]3[/sup]Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
[sup]4[/sup]But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
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To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
[sup]6[/sup]And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Only Israel was under the law....
Matthew 13:11:He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,
but to them it is not given.
Luke 19:9-10:[sup]9[/sup]And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
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For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Matthew 15:24:But he answered and said,
I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 10:6:
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Luke 1:68-69:[sup]68[/sup]
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
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And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
Matthew 1:21:And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Amos 3:2:
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Hebrews 8:8-9:[sup]8[/sup]For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
[sup]9[/sup]Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Where is the ''world'' in all of this?