36:22,23
“It is not for your sake ... but for the sake of my holy Name”. The Lord will defend and proclaim His Name among the nations. He will demonstrate the holiness of His name. In today’s world God’s name is often profaned, we should expect God to act at some point to demonstrate His Holiness among the nations. God’s timing is very different from ours, but at some point He will act. So we should remain faithful to Him. One day the nations will know that He is the Lord.
36:24,25
So what is God going to do? First He is going to take Israel out of the nations and bring them back to their land. In spiritual terms this is parallel to God taking us out of the kingdom of the world and bringing us into His kingdom (Col 1:13). We are brought out of one dominion and one way of living, and brought into His dominion and His way of living. “I will sprinkle clean water on you”. “I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols”. God’s salvation involves changing us. We need to have the old stuff stripped out of us, we need to take off the old self (Rom 6:6; Eph 4:22; Col 3:9).
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