32:23-27
We now get a graphic description of how this will work out. There will be calamities, war, famine and pestilence, along with wild animals and vipers. We should note that these things happened to Israel and Judah. However, at the end of this we get a ray of hope, “I dreaded the taunt of the enemy”. God would not completely destroy, for the sake of His Name. Now some might say that this is egotistical on God’s part, but consider the way that God has dealt with the problem of sin. He sent His own Son to die on the cross for us.
32:28-33
We now get another poetic description of the state of Israel, and indeed of all mankind. We are a people without sense or discernment. Israel had seen how God had miraculously provided for them, and protected them. Setting them free from Egypt, taking them through the Red Sea. This happened to no other people. So the disasters that would come upon them could only come if God had turned against them. The people attacking them were like Sodom and Gomorrah.
We now get a graphic description of how this will work out. There will be calamities, war, famine and pestilence, along with wild animals and vipers. We should note that these things happened to Israel and Judah. However, at the end of this we get a ray of hope, “I dreaded the taunt of the enemy”. God would not completely destroy, for the sake of His Name. Now some might say that this is egotistical on God’s part, but consider the way that God has dealt with the problem of sin. He sent His own Son to die on the cross for us.
32:28-33
We now get another poetic description of the state of Israel, and indeed of all mankind. We are a people without sense or discernment. Israel had seen how God had miraculously provided for them, and protected them. Setting them free from Egypt, taking them through the Red Sea. This happened to no other people. So the disasters that would come upon them could only come if God had turned against them. The people attacking them were like Sodom and Gomorrah.
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