20:33-38
There is a promise of restoration, but this is not a “nice” restoration. God will rule over them “with an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath”. Even so, they would be rescued from the nations where they had been scattered. In some ways this seems a very confusing passage. For it then says that God will bring them into the wilderness and execute judgement upon them. He will take note of them as they pass under His rod, but will also bring them into “the bond of my covenant”. And there would be a purging of the rebelliousness. He then says they will “not enter the land of Israel”. So what are we to make of all this. My commentary has remarkably little to say on the matter! (Commentaries have a habit of doing that!). One is that God’s wrath was poured out on Jesus on Calvary. Any attempt to understand the cross without recognising the wrath of God will never understand the cross. Another is that any ideas that forgiveness is effectively saying sin doesn’t matter is equally flawed.
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