03/23/2025 – “The Centrality Factor” (Day 309) / “The Mission: Whatever is of God is in the center. Put the things of God in the center of this day. And make God the center around which your life revolves.”
The “Book of Mysteries”, by Jonathan Cahn is one of my favorite devotionals of all time. “Day 309” does not correspond with our Semikkah7 Bible Study; today is Day 266. For each devotional in the “Book of Mysteries” has a fictional teacher and a student, with bible verse references at the end. Let’s get started with “The Centrality Factor”:
“He led me to an ancient monument . It was too badly worn to tell what is was. ‘What is it?’ I asked, ‘Or what was it?”
“it was a testament,” said the teacher, ” a monument, a tribute to a civilization that once believed itself to be unconquerable and unending, but which now can only be found in ruins and history books. If we were to look at this kingdoms and powers that once stood at the center of world history over the course of ages, what would we find? Thousands of years ago, we would have found the center of history in Egypt and Babylonia, and then in Assyria, Persia, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and then the great European empires, and then Russia, and America. Now what if we had come from another planet and we knew that God had intervened in the history of earth … where would we expect His intervention to have taken place, in the outer periphery of history or in its center?”
“In the center of history,” I replied. “And if He did act on the outer periphery, it would end up, by His acting upon it, in the center of history.”
“It would,” said the teacher. “And yet if we look at the center of world history from the days of the pharaohs to the age of the superpowers, there’s no common thread, no common kingdom or power. Those at the center of history in the ancient world are on the periphery in the modern world. There’s no common nation or people … except for one – the nation of Israel, the Jewish people. When ancient Babylonia was the center of the world, they were there. When it was Rome, they were there. From the Egyptian Empire to the British Empire, they were there. From the Persian Empire to the Soviet Union, they were there. From streets of Ur of Chadea to the streets of New York City, only one nation has always been in the center. If God were to use a people through whom to bring forth His Word and His redemption to the world, that people would remain at the center of the world. And so they have.. And it just so happens to be the same people through whom came the Book of books, the Word of salvation, and the One known throughout the world as Salvation. If God were to intervene in the course of this world…”
“Then He already did.”
“And His Name is carved into the witness of history… the God of all nations … the God of Israel.”
The Mission: “Whatever is of God is in the center. Put the things of God in the center of this day. And make God the center around which your life revolves.”
Deuteronomy 4: 34-35; 32:8; Zechariah 8:23; Isaiah 2:3
Soli Deo Gloria!
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Comment – See also Zechariah 9 through 14.
The nation of Israel is so tiny, both in terms of land area and population. Even taking into account the ongoing evil of this world, what have they ever done that drives sick souls driven by a desire to wipe them off the face of the earth? How in the world have they survived and thrived to this point, even though they had been without a country for 2,000 years?
Always connected through prayer and God’s grace. We win in the end, for the Lord cannot lose! Hallelujah! Holy, Holy, Holy is He!