THE DESTINY OF OUR RACE

Rev. Bertrand L. Comparet

  Any worth while accomplishment requires both a PURPOSE to be accom­plished and a PLAN for the methods to be used. For the affairs that rule the world, both the purpose and the plan are determined by God. What is the purpose, the destiny of our race? And what is God's plan for accomplishing that purpose? We must find this in the Bible.

   Our PURPOSE, our destiny, is to RULE THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GOD'S LAWS. It is morally wrong to try to evade this responsibility by offer­ing it to others to do in our place. God Himself especially selected us for this purpose: In Deuteronomy 7:6 (14.2, also), He tell us: "For thou art an holy people unto Yahweh thy God: Yahweh thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.  And In Psalm 33:12, "Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh; and the people who He hath chosen for His own inheritance." In Genesis 17:7), God Himself said, "I will establish My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an ever­lasting covenant.” Again, in Deuteronomy 10:15, it says: "Yahweh had a delight in thy fathers, to love them and He chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day".

   For His purposes, God has separated us from all other peoples: In Leviticus 20:24, 26, God says: "I am Yahweh your God, which have separ­ated you from other people. * * And ye shall be holy unto Me; for I Yah­weh am holy, and have severed you from other people that ye should be Mine." In Amos 3:2, God says to us, " You only have I known, of all the families of the earth. And II Corinthians 6:14‑18 tells us: "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? * * * Wherefore, come out from among them and be ye separate, saith Yahweh, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father to you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."  Since we are a people chosen and separated by God himself to serve Him, what are the purposes we must serve?

   First, TO RULE THE EARTH IN HIS NAME: as Jesus Christ said in Luke 19:13, "Occupy until I come". For this, we must first break all opposition. In Jeremiah 51:20‑23 God Himself told us, "Thou art My bat­tleaxe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nat­ions, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; * * and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers." Again, in Daniel 2:44, "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and the Kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever." This is still our duty, to bring peace the only way we can, by BREAKING THE POWER OF THE EVIL NATIONS. The New Testament didn't change this: in Matthew 10:34, Jesus Himself said, "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword," and He told His disciples, * * "he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one." (Luke 22:36) God's purposes cannot be left to the mercy of people like George Bush and Ariel Sharon. There must be conflict between good and evil until good conquers.

   Then what are we to use this power for? TO COLONIZE. In Isaiah 54:2‑3, God told us, "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations; spare not, lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and THY SEED SHALL INHERIT THE NATIONS, * * " Again, in Genesis 28:14 "And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed."

   Never be ashamed of colonialism: it brought the backward nations the only civilization they ever had ‑‑‑and the greatest freedom, too.

   So, having broken all opposition and colonized, what then should we do? RULE THE EARTH, under God's Laws. God's purpose is proclaimed equally in the first book of the Bible, and in the last. In Genesis 27:28‑29, it tells us: * * "Let people serve thee and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be everyone that curseth thee I and blessed be he that blesseth thee." And in Revelation 1:4‑6, it says, "Grace be unto you, and peace, from Him which so and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven spirits which are before His throne; And from Jesus Christ, Who is the Faithful Witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. * * And hath made us KINGS AND PRIESTS unto God and His Father; * * to.

   When we have taken possession of the world, for what purposes shall we rule it? To civilize the backward races and educate them, to teach them of our God and His laws. Isaiah 43:10‑12 tells us, "Ye are My witnesses, saith Yahweh, and My servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He: before Me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after Me. I, even I, am Yahweh; and beside Me there is no Savior, I have declared, and have saved, and I have showed, when there was no strange god among you: Therefore, Ye are My witnesses, saith Yahweh, that I am God. Again, in Deuteronomy 4:7‑8, "For what nation Is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them as Yahweh our God is in all things that we call upon Him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this Law which I set before you this day?

   When we do this, we shall not only be Kings, but also Priests before our God. Isaiah 61:6 tells us, But ye shall be named the Priests of Yahweh: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the nations, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves."

   What greater reward could we have than to function as God's Witnesses that He alone is God, and all pagan religions are false; as God's Servants to accomplish His will; serving before Him as Kings and Priests over the whole earth? Yet we have been despising all this, casting it away, offering this prize to those very other nations whom God has rejected, telling them to do this job instead of ourselves.

   Before God punishes us for our disobedience, let's get back on the job: let's fulfill the destiny marked out for our race and our nation by God Himself. We must do this work either as slaves under the lash, or as willing partners with God in establishing His rule over the earth. What are we waiting for? Lets get started.

Sermon #10964

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