26:31-35
The offerings would not be accepted by the Lord. When a church abandons God’s word it will often go through the motions, and have a superficially “religious” form, but this will not fool God. If we want to please God then we need to listen to Him, trust Him and obey Him. The cities and land would be laid waste, and this would be a direct action of the Lord. They would be scattered among the nations. Again, this happened during the Assyrian inversion for the northern tribes, and during the Babylonian conquest for Judah. Then the land would enjoy its Sabbath rests. The will of the Lord will be obeyed, one way or another. The rest denied it by the disobedient Israelites, would eventually be enjoyed by the land.
26:36-39
The Lord’s people are not meant to be fearful, but when they abandon the Lord fear takes a hold, and much of this fear is irrational. We see this in our own world today. We saw it during the Covid pandemic with government after government making irrational decisions. We see in the irrational responses to the “climate emergency”. This is not to say covid wasn’t important, it was, nor that we should not look after the environment, we should. But the response of many is utterly stupid and counterproductive. And so we see a similar response described here. All this will happen because of their sins.
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