Is there a chosen God people today / What is
God's Chosen Nation / What is the Promised land in the Old
Testament?
Many of you certainly remember the Holy Bible's old testament.
There God chooses the Jewish (Israel) nation to be the nation to
inherit the promised land.
If we read the Holy Scriptpures in a spiritual manner, all the
things written in are clearly referring to the teachings of the new
testament and the other way around.
God has promised to Moses and the Old Testament patriarchs to give
them the land, where a milk and honey will be and they wouldn't
need to work for it. etc. etc.
But if we really read this kind of promises from a jewish
perspective (following the word of the law), this makes no
sense?
How is it possible that somebody gets food and drink if he didn't
work?
It's not possible!
This verses were clearly referring to the
Kingdom of Heaven
, where a man doesn't have to work or do thing but lives through
God's grace in peace and love eternally, something our limited
minds cannot really grasp and thus by trying to explain it we
profane what
Heaven really is.
So it's that simple the promise land that the Holy trinity has
promised us is simply his eternal kingdom which is in heaven.
Thus we as Orthodox Christians should perceive after the looking
always of the Heavenly gift and not care too much for the present
world.
I'm closely observing myself and sadly enough the world power is
too much attractive and I'm always about to be seduced to
completely get out of our rock of Salvation which (Christ)
is.
It's a very hard times for a true Christians, internationalization
makes it even worser for a man to keep even the minimal amount of
faith and hope in God.
That's why our Orthodox Churches has long ago been warning us about
the internationalization and it's position right now is against the
mixture of nations.
The mixture of nations and beliefs is a spiritual babylon in
practice.
Back to the topic, thus read from our Orthodox Christian
perspective this
chosen people which
Israel were is
actually today God's true servants the devoted
Orthodox
Christians.
You might argue, why the
Orthodox Christians and protestants
or Roman Catholics. Well it's very simple Catholics and Protestants
has broken too much of the ancient traditions already and had
adopted the spirit of rationalism which has been ruling the world
for too much.
We in the Orthodox Church as we have kept the traditions as much
intact as possible up-to today are still struggling and mostly
keeping the ancient Christian spirit, though very sadly this is
changing nowdays.
The faith nowdays even in Orthodox Christians has been on a line to
completely fade-away, with Roman Catholics and Protestants
situation is even worser I believe.
So
is there actually nowdays a chosen God people?
The Monks, layman and all Orthodox Church people who try to keep
Christ's commandments of love brotherhood and keeping God as a head
in our lives
We have that benefit that the path that leads to the Blessed
promised land for which the Old Testament teaches us about is
already set in, the promised land is existent even while we still
live here in the body on this earth.
God's
promised land and island of salvation is actually our
Holy Orthodox Church, the dovoted God lovers within the
realm of the Church is
God's chosen people!
We as an Orthodox Christians has been granted by God a big grace
and a big blessing, but with the big blessing always comes bigs
responsibilities.
When I look in my life and try to weighten how much I do live a
life like an Orthodox Christian I do really want to cry hard.
I know many other Orthodox Christians can also recognize this in
our lives, we're living in a terrible times truely.
Further on on the question Are there a chosen God People in modern
times ?, are the Israel chosen people yet like in the Old
Days?
Definitely not, Jewish were chosen because The Messiah our saviour
Jesus Christ (The Son of God) and God himself had to be incarnated
in flesh die and suffer for all of the humanity.
But since the Jewish had crucified our Saviour, all that Jewish
that haven't repented earnestly and turned to Christ by entering
the Orthodox Church are not a chosen people any more.
Whoever is against the Son of God and Jewish are definitely against
is actually against God. Whoever doesn't recognize God's eternal
love, a love that has made God turn into man and suffer for our
sins couldn't inherit the promised land neither be chosen
anymore.
I've heard some of the prophecies made by some of Our Orthodox
Christian Saints (Holy Fathers) says that Slavonic Orthodox
Christian Nations would have an union when the Anti-Christ appears
in the World.
According to this ancient prophecies by St. Nile/ st.Nil - a
Athonite Monk the Slavonic Nations will have a king presumably (The
King of Russia) and he will lead all the Slavonic nations to wage a
war against the Anti-Christ.
I don't know if this prophecies are credible, but as far as I've
read they're if it's really true this means that maybe someday my
country Bulgaria Along with Russia and the other Slavonic Nations
will really unite in faith and will fight the ungodly kingdom of
the AntiChrist.
It's really I can't find any resources which had an exact
translation about this prophecies.
Anyways back to the topic What are the God's chosen people nowdays
(today)? , just in case if the Prophecies about the Chosen Slavonic
Nations by God who will oppose the kingdom of the AntiChrist are
true, then certainly, we the Slavonic (Bulgarians, Serbians,
Macedonians, Russians, Ukrainians etc. etc.) and presumably other
Orthodox Christians will unite and will march against the tyranny
of the AntiChrist.
In that sense it could be that we The Orthodox Slavonics are also
today's God chosen people.
I truly hope so! Only time will tell if this is true or not. And
time and future is in God's hands for sure!