For a time Israel would go and serve their idols. In the NT Paul sometimes talks about giving people over to satan. Sometimes God lets His people follow their own ways to discover what they are letting themselves in for. Only then will they realise the error of their ways and return to God.
Eventually the people would return to God and serve Him. There will be a people who worship Him in spirit and in truth, and God's name will be honoured throughout the world. Then the people would realise the awfulness of their previous actions and loathe their sin.
Verse 44 is very interesting. God says He deals with them according to His names' sake, not their actions. That is what He has done in Christ. If God treated us according to our actions we would all be dead, but instead He sent Christ to the cross. This has been done for the glory of His name.
Eventually the people would return to God and serve Him. There will be a people who worship Him in spirit and in truth, and God's name will be honoured throughout the world. Then the people would realise the awfulness of their previous actions and loathe their sin.
Verse 44 is very interesting. God says He deals with them according to His names' sake, not their actions. That is what He has done in Christ. If God treated us according to our actions we would all be dead, but instead He sent Christ to the cross. This has been done for the glory of His name.
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