"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion./We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof./For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion."
The rivers whether it be of Babylon or of Damascus, their source as well as their end rests with God. The will of God directs it's course and the Son shall fulfill it so one might say Jordan, Tigris or Euphrates are mere labels and interchangeable. Naaman the leper asked," Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?"(2 Ki.5:12). No no, God has determined before beginning of the world as to where and on whom His blessings shall rest.
'God sent his word, healed them and delivered from their destructions'. The rivers accordingly trace a course in the visible world. "So he (Naaman) went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times,as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restoredand became clean like that of a young boy."(2 Ki.5:14) Naaman, a Gentile took the word of the prophet totally, doubting nothing, and as a result was healed. The word was from God and whether it was administered by Elisha or Jesus faith is the same, and for this reason it worked.
Gentile or Jew when one hears the word, it creates in the world of the Spirit faith (Ro.10:17), which must prove that the sovereign grace of God and faith are not imposed from external world but gushes forth from inner world of the Spirit.For this reason God commanded Samuel to reject Jesse's other sons. Eliab seemed right for Samuel. "But theLordsaid unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for theLordseeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but theLordlooketh on the heart."(1 Sa.16:7)
"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion./We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof./For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion."
The rivers whether it be of Babylon or of Damascus, their source as well as their end rests with God. The will of God directs it's course and the Son shall fulfill it so one might say Jordan, Tigris or Euphrates are mere labels and interchangeable. Naaman the leper asked," Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?"(2 Ki.5:12). No no, God has determined before beginning of the world as to where and on whom His blessings shall rest.
'God sent his word, healed them and delivered from their destructions'. The rivers accordingly trace a course in the visible world. "So he (Naaman) went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times,as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restoredand became clean like that of a young boy."(2 Ki.5:14) Naaman, a Gentile took the word of the prophet totally, doubting nothing, and as a result was healed. The word was from God and whether it was administered by Elisha or Jesus faith is the same, and for this reason it worked.
Gentile or Jew when one hears the word, it creates in the world of the Spirit faith (Ro.10:17), which must prove that the sovereign grace of God and faith are not imposed from external world but gushes forth from inner world of the Spirit.For this reason God commanded Samuel to reject Jesse's other sons. Eliab seemed right for Samuel. "But theLordsaid unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for theLordseeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but theLordlooketh on the heart."(1 Sa.16:7)
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