7:21
So Israel is not to be afraid of the opposition, for God is among them, and He is a great and awesome God. We live in an age when society is becoming increasingly godless and hostile to Christianity. In these circumstances we too should not be afraid, for God is amongst us, and He is great and awesome. We need to learn from Him and follow His instructions.
7:22
This is an interesting verse. First it tells us that “The Lord will drive out ...”, then it says “you will not be allowed to eliminate ...” One of the things it teaches us is that when the Lord does something it does not mean that we don’t have any part to play in it. It is a bit like Ps 127 where it says “unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labour in vain ...” Everything is ultimately dependent upon God, but He involves us in all things. The reason given here is that otherwise the wild animals would multiply around them. When regimes like Iraq, or Communist Russia collapse, we see that chaos reigns and all sorts of criminal and other unsavoury groups arise. Maybe that is what God is talking about here.
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