So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. II Kings No law can make people live righteously; it may at best keep them from killing and cannibalizing each other.
In the midst of this nightmare, there is hope. The tragedy of Genesis 11 is contrasted with the promise of God to Abram in Genesis 12 that he would have a great name, be made into a great nation, [1] and receive a great blessing. It does not seem to have the same meaning as the English word country which usually denotes a place of fixed borders and stable government , but rather the idea of a people or nationality.
This is clear from the following passages:. And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. Exodus And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them….
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. Leviticus Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Deuteronomy And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom that all the peoples, nations, and men of every language might serve Him. Daniel In both cases, the focus is on people, not governments or borders of a country. In the first example Mt. Since we know that Jesus is not referring to Egypt or Syria or any other physical nation with borders, we can only conclude He means the church people of all languages, tribes, tongues, nations.
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world…. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. Matthew , This is obviously the last day, the judgment day. He is addressing people, who will be judged as individuals. God is not bringing Australia or Zimbabwe, Botswana or Yugoslavia before himself.
He is bringing every man to account out of every nation, and those that are saved will enter the kingdom, planned from the foundation of the world. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Matthew And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Revelation f. God promises in Revelation not to save the nations, but save His people out of the nations, and make them kings. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: allogenes Phonetic Spelling: al-log-en-ace' Short Definition: of another nation , a foreigner From a presumed derivative of genos; a generation; by implication, an age the period or the persons -- age, generation, nation , time.
Cognate: from , " nation " -- Gentile; heathen, usually referring to ; a , a "non-covenant person," standing outside God's covenant salvation. From allos and phule; foreign, ie specially Gentile -- one of another nation. Transliteration: goy Phonetic Spelling: go'-ee Short Definition: nations.
Word Origin Transliteration: ummah Phonetic Spelling: oom-maw' Short Definition: nations. Aramaic corresponding to 'ummah -- nation. Gog -- the name of an Israelite, also leader of a northern Rosh -- a foreign nation Transliteration: Rosh Short Definition: Rosh.
Abraham -- "exalted father," the father of the Jewish nation From the same as 'em; a collection, ie Community of persons -- nation , people. Strong's Numbers. Transliteration: am Phonetic Spelling: am Short Definition: folk. From zarach in the sense of springing up ; a spontaneous growth First is the incident of Moses' ungranted petition. Moses was the leader of his people. When the nation of the Picts received the faith of Christ.
IN the year of our Lord , when Justin, the AT this time the nation of the Northumbrians, that is? AT this time the nation of the Northumbrians, that is And so by the conquest of Jericho the new nation of Israel began to possess its land.
The Fallacy of the Young Nation. The English nation will still be going the way of all European nations when the Anglo-Saxon race has gone the way of all fads.
The Nation's Prosperity and the Church's Increase. Psalm The nation's prosperity and the church's increase. Multi-Version Concordance Nation Occurrences.
Matthew For nation will rise against nation , and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. Matthew For nation will be moved against nation , and kingdom against kingdom, and men will be without food, and the earth will be shaking in different I have argued similarly elsewhere. The Scriptures include at least three signal events important to sketching nationhood in a Biblical key.
They are the common ownership of the earth, the creation of the nations at Babel, and the calling of Abraham immediately after Babel. First, God gave the earth to humanity in general to provide for our needs Psalm Private property, families, nations and others are particularistic means by which humanity makes use of its common ownership, and the primary means by which people produce and distribute goods.
The teachings operate more as a reserve clause identifying the purposes that things like private property and national sovereignty must serve. These things must be prudentially modified if they do not serve the purposes for which they were created. The implications of the common ownership of the earth are too vast to discuss in any depth here. One implication to note, however. God is the one who is ultimately sovereign over national borders, not nations.
This does not mean that national borders are or should be entirely permeable to cross-national movement. National authorities, however, answer to a higher power. Importantly, the reason people may need to cross national borders is an important consideration in their permeability.
Political theorists like Hugo Grotius aspects of which I discuss here , here , and here and Mathias Risse, who develops a secular line of reasoning premised on common ownership of the earth, consider the different implications for the permeability of national borders based on different types of claims.
For example, Grotius draws on events in the book of Numbers to discuss the right to pass through a nation. In chapter 22 verses Moses asks Sihon, King of the Amorites, for permission for Israel merely to pass through the land. Sihon refuses, and Israel enforces her right of passage by going to war. Israel subsequently passes through Bashan and Moab. Interestingly, however, earlier, when the King of Edom refused permission to Israel, Moses simply turned Israel away.
Perhaps Edom was too strong for Israel successfully to fight, Luke While the common ownership of the earth might auger more for cosmopolitanism than nationalism, the next event in the Bible offers more evidence to support nationalism than cosmopolitanism. Yet, it is a negative argument for nationhood, which may explain why nationalist Christians seems studiously to ignore it.
In doing so humanity replicates the Original Sin, seeking to dethrone God and enthrone itself as King. In judgment, God divides humanity into different tongues and nations or family groups. Yet through Abram, God will bless the very families he just judged in chapters 10 and
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