Just imagine, by some amazing grace, your relatives were the ones whom the true God covenanted with to proclaim himself to the world. When your family prospered, it showed God’s power, and when they were oppressed, God looked like a loser too. God’s fate is tied up with your fate. It’s galling and shocking to you how the world sees the God of Israel as a wimpy, pathetic deity when he’s the true Creator of the world. When is he going to be rightly acknowledged as the world’s true King? Every day it pains you to see your family languishing, oppressed by rock-worshiping idolaters. Not just for
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