4:27,28
Jerusalem would be destroyed and the people scattered among the nations. This happened first of all to the northern Kingdom of Israel under the Assyrians, and then to Judah under the Babylonians. In the places to which they would be scattered they would worship worthless idols. Idols can neither see nor hear, they can do nothing. Why worship the worthless, when we can worship the living God?
4:29
Moses has warned them quite clearly about the dangers of not following the Lord, and has effectively prophesied that the apostasy and the ensuing judgements would happen. But that is not the end of the story as he now starts to talk about repentance. God’s plan, or the mystery as it is sometimes called by Paul in his letters, confronts sin head on, and where sin abounds grace abounds all the more. So here Moses says that if in the place of exile they seek the Lord they would find Him, if they seek Him with all their heart (Matt 7:7).
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