The second fundamental problem with viewing America as a theocracy is that God’s theocratic program in the Old Testament was temporary, conditional—and ultimately abandoned. God formed Israel to be a distinct, set-apart, holy people in order to use them to reach the whole world. Through the descendants of Abraham, all the families of the world were to be blessed (Gen. 12:2–3). The Israelites were to be God’s ministers, his priests to the world. God took great pains (and inflicted great pains) to get this people into “the Promised Land” because it was strategic in accomplishing this global
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