Blog by Douglas J. Lanzo
November 22, 2025
I wanted to share this blog and poem below with you which I felt inspired to write
in order to celebrate God’s everlasting covenants with the Jewish nation,
His Chosen People. In an age of rising antisemitism, division and hate,
we must ourselves have faith in, and be obedient and steadfast in believing
and sharing God’s Biblical promises, which covenants proclaim God’s never-ending love,
faithfulness and blessings to the Jewish people.
We would also do well to recall God’s promise to bless those who bless Israel and to curse those who curse it:
“I will make you into a great nation,and I will bless you;
I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you. (Genesis 12:2-3)
Any who deny God’s continuing Love for the people
of Israel deny the very words of God Himself as
recorded in the Scriptures, including His words
to the nation of Israel in Isaiah 54:10:
“Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.”
A Story of Continuing Love and Blessing
By Douglas J. Lanzo
Copyright 2025
God proclaimed to Abraham: “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.” Genesis 17:7-8 (NIV)
A people chosen
by a Holy God,
winning their hearts
with love, not rods;
Who promised lands
they’d never seen,
flowing with milk
and pastured greens,
rewarding faith
of Abraham,
ready to slay Isaac,
until freed by a ram;
God blessed Abraham,
Issac and Jacob,
with offspring like stars
before dreamers wake-up;
He spared their lives
from pharaoh’s wrath
and parted seas
to forge their path,
into strange lands
they did not know,
with fire at night
and smoke billowed;
Manna from heaven
quails on the ground,
through staff-struck rock
were waters found;
He gave them kings
when they cried out,
and tumbled walls
by trumpets, then shouts;
Even when sin
brought them defeat,
marched to cruel lands
through desert heat,
He heard their cries
and grieved their wails,
and brought them home
from their travails.
Their lineage
survived exile
humbled by God
by fiery trials.
Returning to Him
who had never left,
they felt his love
fill souls bereft,
with His presence
in temple restored
to shouts of praise
for their kind Lord.
Becoming man,
the Messiah came
the lamb of God,
healing deaf and lame,
fulfilling the law,
sacrificial lamb,
tearing temple curtains
like a battering ram;
Bringing new life
through faith and grace
for Jews and Gentiles,
to all who embrace
His divinity,
and God’s mercy and grace,
forgiving our neighbors
as our sins are erased,
while blessing Israel still —
with His glorious face.
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