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JEHOVAH’S UNILATERAL LOVE FOR A WAYWARD PEOPLE
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17
Isaiah 48:1-22
Psalm 24:1-5
"The earth is the LORD’S,
and the fulness thereof…"
JEHOVAH’S UNILATERAL LOVE FOR A WAYWARD PEOPLE
The destruction of Babylon was determined seventy years before, so Jeremiah prophesied (Jer 25:11-14; 29:10). On one hand, Babylon was to be destroyed for her own sake in retribution for her sins. On the other hand, the destruction of Babylon was in order that the Jews might be returned to their homeland. But this was not because the Jews deserved it. Rather, it was the reverse.
Isaiah 48 is Jehovah’s declaration of unilateral love for His wayward children. Though they were called the people of God, and they called on the name of the Lord, at heart they were idol-worshippers (Isa 48:5). They were a treacherous lot (Isa 48:8), willing to give honour to their idols than to the Holy One of Israel, who saved them. Matthew Henry said, "The very calamities they were now groaning under in Babylon, God did from the beginning declare to them by Moses, as the certain consequences of their apostasy from God (Lev 26:31, etc., Deut 28:36, 29:28). He also declared to them their return to God, and to their own land again (Deut 30:4; Lev 26:44-45). Thus he showed them how he would deal with them long before it came to pass."
God also showed by the prophets new things of their own day. Surely, Jeremiah’s predictions of the Jews’ seventy-year exile and of Cyrus their liberator (Isa 48:14-15) were new predictions only God Himself could give. Had the Jews obeyed God and kept His commandments then their peace would flow like a river. Nevertheless, though now they were an isolated people in captivity, the Lord had come to redeem them out of Babylon and the Lord would provide for all their needs as they took their long journey home through desert lands. But those who remained unconverted would find no peace. What a picture of God’s wayward children in any age! (Read Jeremiah 44.)
THOUGHT: (Memorise Lamentations 3:22.)
PRAYER: I thank Thee, Lord, for Thy everlasting love.
Posted in Adult RPG
Isaiah 48:1-22
Psalm 24:1-5
"The earth is the LORD’S,
and the fulness thereof…"
JEHOVAH’S UNILATERAL LOVE FOR A WAYWARD PEOPLE
The destruction of Babylon was determined seventy years before, so Jeremiah prophesied (Jer 25:11-14; 29:10). On one hand, Babylon was to be destroyed for her own sake in retribution for her sins. On the other hand, the destruction of Babylon was in order that the Jews might be returned to their homeland. But this was not because the Jews deserved it. Rather, it was the reverse.
Isaiah 48 is Jehovah’s declaration of unilateral love for His wayward children. Though they were called the people of God, and they called on the name of the Lord, at heart they were idol-worshippers (Isa 48:5). They were a treacherous lot (Isa 48:8), willing to give honour to their idols than to the Holy One of Israel, who saved them. Matthew Henry said, "The very calamities they were now groaning under in Babylon, God did from the beginning declare to them by Moses, as the certain consequences of their apostasy from God (Lev 26:31, etc., Deut 28:36, 29:28). He also declared to them their return to God, and to their own land again (Deut 30:4; Lev 26:44-45). Thus he showed them how he would deal with them long before it came to pass."
God also showed by the prophets new things of their own day. Surely, Jeremiah’s predictions of the Jews’ seventy-year exile and of Cyrus their liberator (Isa 48:14-15) were new predictions only God Himself could give. Had the Jews obeyed God and kept His commandments then their peace would flow like a river. Nevertheless, though now they were an isolated people in captivity, the Lord had come to redeem them out of Babylon and the Lord would provide for all their needs as they took their long journey home through desert lands. But those who remained unconverted would find no peace. What a picture of God’s wayward children in any age! (Read Jeremiah 44.)
THOUGHT: (Memorise Lamentations 3:22.)
PRAYER: I thank Thee, Lord, for Thy everlasting love.
Posted in Adult RPG