Eze. 39:26

26 After that they have borne [nasa'] their shame [kalimmah], and all their trespasses [ma`al] whereby they have trespassed [ma`al] against me, when they dwelt [yashab] safely [betach] in their land ['adamah], and none made them afraid [charad]. KJV-Interlinear

26 And they shall forget their disgrace and all their treachery which they perpetrated against Me, when they live securely on their own land with no one to make them afraid. NASB

For centuries, the Jewish people have born the shame of for their loss of honor, and loss of reputation due to their disobedience to God.

What was that disobedience?

Gen. 17:1

1 Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, I am God Almighty; Walk before Me, and be blameless. NASB

The key phrase here is Walk before Me, and be blameless. That is the command for us all.

Walking is your day-to-day conduct. Before God, is your conduct in accordance with His will. His will, obviously comes from learning the scriptures. Being blameless, is your fellowship status.

In order to be in fellowship, you confess your sins to God the Father. A very detailed study of that was covered in 1 John.

So, the short answer to the question is simply, live your life from within the spiritual sphere of your life, not in the temporal, or worldly, sphere.

What did the Israelites do? Well, they did pretty much what everyone in history does. They were more or less indifferent toward God, ignored God, and did things in life their own way.

The book of Genesis, the book of Exodus, and well, pretty much the entire Old Testament, is their story of repeated failure in their relationship with God. It got to the point that God finally sent them into exile for these past nearly two thousand years.

And, that should be a good lesson for us all. Reject God, and keep rejecting Him, and He will send you into exile. Exile simply means, away from God.

It will not be until the last generation of the history of mans kingdoms, which this last generation will occur in the Tribulation, that the Jewish people will get their act together, as a whole people.

Until that time, the race of the Jews will continue to reject God, His plan, His Son, His Savior the Messiah, who is Jesus Christ. The will continue to live in their world of salvation by works, and they will continue to wait for something that has already occurred.

For that, they will continue to be at the mercy of the laws of the jungle, which more or less rules the lives of everyone who choose to, not live, under Gods rules. The jungle is merciless and history of filled with examples of that kind of misery.

Some folks take a proactive position, desiring to master the jungle, to hustle through life and beat the odds. Some take a passive position, developing inward feelings of unworthiness, and sink into self-pitty or asceticism. And, of course there is an infinite number of positions in between these two extremes. All are wrong.

But once, the Jewish race has born the full measure of their punishment, and what exactly does that mean?

That means simply that history will run its full course through all generations, until it finally arrives at the generation that will finally change their attitude, in mass.

Granted, they will be exposed to massive pressures, pressures that will have never existed before in history, but they will make their attitude change and turn to God, to Christ, and to doctrine.

Then, and only then, when they as a group, and as individuals, reach spiritual maturity, then they will no longer have the fears that spiritually immature people have. Immature people die a thousand deaths during their lifetime. They fear almost everything, what with paranoia s, suspicions, doubts, complaining, bitterness, and such.

The mature believer dies but once, and that is the moment of their physical transition out of this world.

Mature believers have a relaxed mental attitude about life, taking things in stride. Immature people fret over just about everything, often times exaggerating things way out of proportion.

The promised land, in reality is the secure position of spiritual maturity. It is with you no matter where you are, and no one can take it away from you.

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