ISRAEL’S PURPOSE FOR EXISTENCE
"Thy
salvation" Psa. 67:2
This phrase constitutes a poetic interpretation
of the thought of the one word of which it is a translation. The Hebrew word is
one, and signifies quite literally, salvation. It is salvation in the sense of
deliverance, aid, and so nationally of victory. The conception in its national
significance is very beautifully expressed in the phrase, "saving health," of
the Authorized Version. The Psalm is a very brief one, but it breathes the very
spirit of a clear understanding of the real meaning of the Hebrew nation,
according to Divine purpose. Its opening prayer is that God will bless and
cause His face to shine upon His own people, in order that His "salvation
may be known among all nations." It’s closing, affirmation is
that God will bless His own people, and that as a result, "all the ends of the earth shall fear
Him." This is the true interpretation of privilege. THE PEOPLE
OF GOD EXIST FOR THE SAKE OF ALL THE NATIONS. (Gen. 12:3) They constitute the illustration
of His saving health. Their prosperity is due to His aid, His deliverance, His
salvation. The nations, seeing that prosperity, are taught the advantage of His
rule. That rule, discovered and obeyed, always produces national health, in all
the spacious values of that great word. Health is wholeness, completeness, and
full realization of possibility, as it is freedom from all diseases,
materially, mentally, morally. God alone is able to rule men so as to insure
this state of health. His people, then, are called upon to reveal this fact to
men, by the health in which they live. What disaster, if by disobedience to the
will of God they reveal to men anything less than health Thus the name of God
is blasphemed among the heathen. The privilege is great; the responsibility is
grave; the resources in God are sufficient. (Again see Gen. 12:2-3).
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