29:22-24
Israel was meant to be a sign to the nations, a sign of how to live as a godly society, a beacon to the world. Instead she would become a beacon of disaster. People would wonder why all this had happened to Israel, indeed “why has the Lord done this?” This is still true today. While there are many who hate Israel, many wonder why she has suffered so much. Going back to 29:19 the tragedy is that the people described here think they are under God’s blessing when in fact they are under His judgement.
29:25-28
We now get the clear and simple answer to the question in 29:24. It is because they abandoned the covenant that the Lord made with them. Instead of worshipping the Lord, they worshipped idols. That was the reason all the curses (God’s judgement on mans’ sin) came upon them. So Israel was uprooted from the land, as happened under the Assyrians and Babylonians.
29:29
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us ...” There are many things that we do not understand or know, but God does reveal many things to us. Our task is to act on the things that we do know, the things that we do not know we can leave in God’s hands. Often people will focus on the hidden things, embarking on a futile task of trying to find them, and neglecting the things that we should be focusing on.
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