People of Israel, the people of Jacob, Jacobians, Jacobnese, Jacobeans, or Jacobans?
The chosen people.
Sometimes I wonder, after reading this much of Isaiah, why does God do the things he does?
From the last example, Jacob, from the Book of Genesis, chapter 25, as much as Issac was the descendant of Abraham, the father of faith, the chosen one, why were there 2 Nations in Rebekah's tummy? If they were the chosen people, when divide them amongst themselves? Why cause a rift? I know God does not play favoritism, so why allow sin to preside in the chosen people and not protect them? Was having twins not of his plan? Does things happen because it happens, and God the judges them because he has no control over them, but has the authority to save and kill as please?
Or is it, as I understand it, that the "prince of this world" has control till the last day.
God will guide and direct.
However, how does Abraham, Moses, and even Daniel were saved by God's hand physically on earth?
Daniel 6:16-22
" So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions' den. The king said to Daniel, "May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!"
A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that Daniel's situation might not be changed. Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.
At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried to the lions' den. When he came near the den, he called to Daniel in an anguished voice, "Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?"
Daniel answered, "O king, live forever! My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, O king."
Isaiah 44" he displays his glory in Israel."
"This is what the LORD says—
your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb:
I am the LORD,
who has made all things,
who alone stretched out the heavens,
who spread out the earth by myself,
who foils the signs of false prophets
and makes fools of diviners,
who overthrows the learning of the wise
and turns it into nonsense,
who carries out the words of his servants
and fulfills the predictions of his messengers,
who says of Jerusalem, 'It shall be inhabited,'
of the towns of Judah, 'They shall be built,'
and of their ruins, 'I will restore them,'
who says to the watery deep, 'Be dry,
and I will dry up your streams,'
who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd
and will accomplish all that I please;
he will say of Jerusalem, "Let it be rebuilt,"
and of the temple, "Let its foundations be laid."
