Avner Boskey: Whether the Jewish people are at home in their Promised Land, scattered in the Exile, or "comfortable in the Diaspora" as some would describe it, they are still distinct and different.
Through the distinctive separateness of the Jewish people, mankind would be delivered from sin and rebellion.
This separate identity is ongoing. And this separate and distinctive identity will be honored and respected by the nations who walk in obedience and belief (Zechariah 8:20-23). Here is where the blessing and cursing aspects of Genesis 12:3 come. For those non-Jews who are prepared to gladly receive this teaching and positional reality, there will be blessing and light. But for those Gentiles (even believers) who reject and disdain this teaching (this is the meaning of the first verb in Genesis 12:3 – meqalelecha means "the one who mocks/derides you, or treats you as a light and unimportant matter"), the results involve the withholding of spiritual and physical blessing along with resulting darkening of understanding.
He is sifting the nations based on their treatment of Israel, the apple of His eye. Israel His inheritance is not diluted or diminished by the future love and good fellowship between the reborn nations of Egypt, Assyria (northern Iraq) and Israel. They are still guided by and interpreted by the irrevocable and unchanging plumbline of the Jewish people.
"The Terror you inspire and the Pride of your Heart has deceived you, O Dwellers in the Clefts of the Rock, who Occupy the Heights of the Hill, who says in his Heart, 'Who will bring me down to Earth?' Though you may rise High like the Eagle and though you set your Nest among the Stars, from there I will bring you down, declares YHVH" (Obadiah 1:3-4 Multilingual, Jeremiah 49:16 Multilingual).
"And all Edom [2 Samuel 8:14 Multilingual] and Sedom became Servants of David bearing an Offering" (2 Samuel 8:2 Multilingual).
Translation: "The United States of America which is called, according to The Spirit, 'In the Name of Sedom and Egypt,' where also their Lord was crucified" (Apocalypse 11:8 Multilingual).
אַרְצוֹת הַבְּרִית שֶׁל אַמְרִיקָה הַנִּקְרֵאת כְּפִי הָרוּחַ בְּשֵׁם סְדוֹם וּמִצְרַיִם אֲשֶׁר־שָׁם נִתלָה על הַעֵץ גַּם־אֲדֹנֵיהֶם
