20:21-26
So the children of Israel had a chance to live by the Law and live, but they too rebelled against the Lord. Sometimes we hear the term “children of Israel” as if they were a sweet little bunch, the truth is they were a bunch of rebellious sinners (as are we all). They did not keep the Law and they desecrated the Sabbath. They were deserving of the wrath of God, but God stayed His hand. Why? Again it was so that His Name would not be profaned. But He also promised that judgement would eventually come against them. “So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live”. This seems a strange thing to say. Maybe it is like Rom 1:24 where it says “God gave them over”. When a people reject God’s ways sometimes He says “you want to live like that? Very well, you live like that and take the consequences”. The same sort of thing is happening in the West. Society seems determined to live by nonsense in terms of sexual relations and gender, and God has said “very well, have it your way”. The consequences will not be good for us. In the case of Israel it resulted in them sacrificing children to Molech and other idols.
20:27-29
Real blasphemy is to be unfaithful to the Lord. God brought them into the Promised Land. It was a good land, but the people saw it as a place of opportunity to worship idols. So all the generations of Israel sinned and rebelled against the Lord. Israel was fully deserving of the judgement that God was bringing upon them. All the talk of “fathers have sinned and the children’s teeth are set on edge” was just so much nonsense. All the people had sinned. We need a change of heart, not a change of circumstances.
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