Week 30 Jeremiah-Acts
When I’m reading through the bible I have one thing I hope and one thing I know.
I’m hoping that I’ll learn something useful. Gain some insight.
But one thing I know is that lots of times I’ll be left with questions.
So yesterday I had that question about the nations of the world having chunks of land that they say is their country. A country has country and it’s theirs to control and use and exploit and manage and protect and defend. Things like that.
Jeremiah knows that countries / jurisdictions / territorial-states / empires are gained on the one hand when settlers move in and stay or maybe when land is taken over militarily. But he’s more interested in the Main Reason that countries get their land assignment – it comes to them as a grant/gift from the Lord. That’s why a state has country.
Anyway one of the questions I had yesterday was that if that was going on in the OT then what about today? Do modern countries have assigned geographies too?
I didn’t find the answer to the question but I did find a cross-reference where Paul said something interesting. He said the Lord: created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries.
So Paul agrees with Jeremiah. The Lord determines national boundaries.
Which didn’t answer yesterday’s question. But it added another piece that’s worth keeping in mind.
Note: quote from Acts 17:26 (NLT)