Lighthouse: "Hats Off to The Stranger"

This is one Canadian band which didn't need government help to become famous. They had all the musical hooks of a great group and gained their fans through good musicianship and strong song writing.

This particular song is about being warned to heed God's message. Hear it here.

God has called out to people since the time of Adam and Eve. Sadly, people often went their own way. One example was Israel's disobedience in not invading Palestine. Deuteronomy 1:26 and 27 (Bible in Basic English) tells us, "But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up: And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, 'In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.'"

Isaiah 30:15 (BBE) shows how God wanted to do Israel good but they refused to listen. "For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, 'In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.'"

Jeremiah 29:18 and 19 (BBE) makes God's desire even clearer. "'I will go after them, attacking them with the sword and with need of food and with disease, and will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a wonder and a surprise and a name of shame among all the nations where I have sent them:' Because they have not given ear to my words,' says the Lord, 'when I sent to them my servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you did not give ear,' says the Lord."

Jesus actually wept over Israel's capital in Matthew 23:37-39 (BBE) for all the good the Father wanted to do for them. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not! See, your house is made waste. For I say to you, You will not see me from this time till you say, 'A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.'"

Stephen also gave the Jewish leaders a tongue-lashing in Acts 7:51-53 (BBE). "You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death; You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it."

I hope the time is near when Israel recognizes her messiah. If that hasn't happened by Thursday, I hope to post about the legacy we leave behind.