One day, as I was reading one of Jeremiah's prophecies, I noticed how much his description of the deplorable moral, etc., state of the kingdom of Judah sounded like a description of the United States today. This brought back to mind a chart Rûãch @Élöhîm had set me to working on several years ago identifying one of His patterns in history: the covenant nation pattern. Under His tutelage I developed a chart detailing the covenant nation pattern and how it played out in the ancient Kingdom of Israel and in the present United States. As far as I have found, these are the only two nations whose history (1) YHWH @Élöhîm wrote in the covenant nation pattern. The first column in the chart lists the basic pattern elements. This is a form of classification. On the surface, the specific playing out of the element in Israel and the United States seems unique to each sequence. However, if I step back from the specifics and looks for categories into which both sets of specifics fall, I can discern the pattern elements. The next two columns list the 'window dressing' elements for each nation. I have included a few dates, with the Kingdom of Israel dates based on the Internal Bible Chronology that Rûãch @Élöhîm has had me working on for the many years. I use the astronomical calendar (AC ), which includes a year 0. Therefore, the –AC dates are one year less than the corresponding BC Gregorian calendar date (i.e., Josiah dies in -608 AC or 609 BC ). I think of this chart as a word tapestry depicting two scenes from YHWH @Élöhîm's story playing out side by side (instead of separated by millennia ). Each scene has its own color set for its threads that He wove into pictures in the cloth. The color sets are distinct yet harmonious, the pictures unique yet balanced, and the thread paths down the cloth rambling yet ordered. YHWH @Élöhîm's Covenant Nation Pattern is an lovely example of YHWH @Él öhîm expressing the truth and beauty of Who He is through His artistic creativity. Go to Covenant Nation Chart
FOOTNOTES 1 My sources for the information in the chart are The Bible, my AP American history class in public high school (1973) (I distinctly remember from that class the idea that the Puritans saw themselves as a second Israel in a covenant relationship with the God of Abraham), and history books, including Marshall and Manuel's The Light and the Glory. Return Return to blog post Return to Patterns Menu
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