Job 36:10 He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity. 11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
When ancient Israel was to be formed into a nation, God specified that they were not to be reckoned as being an average nation, for they were not serving an average God. His peculiar people should have, at the very least, something peculiar about them, and that’s why throughout the Bible, God seeks to bring about that fine balance that the gospel offers.
Indeed, it was, and it still is the will of God that His people should shine radiantly as lights in the world, not coming up short on any front so that the people and nations of earth would then be attracted to the wisdom that comes from God alone. Therefore, in the last days of earth’s history, God desires that all the fullness of the gospel should be manifested in the persons of the saints, just as He had purposed for Israel.
In times past there were imbalances in some of His people, either on account of a lack of knowledge or a lack of practice. But now, with the wealth of knowledge, the wisdom and understanding passed down through the many generations of saints; now, with the additional info granted through patriarchs and prophets, we who are living in our generation are to experience the culmination of all what it means to be a peculiar people.
1st Chronicles 29:11 Thine, O Lord is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honor come of thee, and You reign over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!