I have seen people here calling the Palestinians "Scum" and "Animals" and other terms of abuse;
To me that makes you just as bad as them. as you have murder in your hearts.
- Exodus 34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
- 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
- 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
- 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that wih was sent to Nineva to preach repentance. They were Assyrians and one of the most blooll by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
The Assyrians were most evil nations in the OT. Jonah ran in the opposite direction as he didn't want the Assyrians to repent and be saved.
God sent him again and Jonah preached the word of God and they repented. Was Jonah pleased that they did? No
- Jonah 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
- 2And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
- 3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live
Jonah didn't want the Assyrians to repent and their city to be saved. He quoted Exodus.
Take a lesson from Jonah. Our sermon this evening was on Jonah, but Palestine wasn't mentioned. He knew that God had mercy and grace to sinners who repent.
Perhaps you should be going to Palestine and preaching to them.