44:26-28
The people are well and truly under God’s wrath and judgement. They have utterly rejected the Lord, so He will utterly reject them. Those who have gone from Judah to Egypt will no longer be allowed to call upon the name of the Lord. In the past they had done so, but it was all a sham. God would continue to watch over them, but now would do so for harm, not for good. None of them would survive. Some might object that this does not fit with your picture of God. If that is the case, it is your picture of God that is wrong, it is not based on the Bible.
44:29,30
God’s word would stand, not the word of mere man, God gave them a clear and concrete sign that this is how things would work out. The sign would be that the Pharaoh would be given into the hands of his enemies. Just as Zedekiah had been given into the hands of the Babylonians. The people had had plenty of opportunity to see that God’s word was reliable, and the word of man was not reliable. Yet they persisted in choosing to follow their own hearts instead of the word of God. We can all be prone to this failing and we need to learn from the failings of the people of Judah.
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