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It's a cliché that the treatment of the patriarch Abraham by his fellow-men would be reciprocated by God for good or ill. According to Genesis 12:3, "I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
While the fact that these United States has had a special relationship with modern Israel may seem to say little about the original awe of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that was held in the bosom of our Founders, quite the contrary is true. It has to do with little else.
Their attitude of reverence is equally important to consider not only to comprehend Israel's place-in-the-world today, but to properly place this Republic in the longer scope, through the changes-of-scenes as it were, on the stage of world history.
This modern era is utterly inconceivable without our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, founded on the Bible (as published in vernacular language) having first fomented the proposition that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...
The prosperity and happiness pursued by Americans have been the blessing of the world promised by God.
When Abraham (doubtless, to my mind) recorded the promises he'd heard, the success of American liberty was already a contingent potential to be achieved in company with the Jews who'd kept those words for posterity.
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