There's No Escaping God's Releasing of His Judgement Vs. His Enemies -- Deuteronomy 32:34-43

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Song of Moses - Part VII - God's Payback Time & Vindication -- Deuteronomy 32:34-43

In this passage, verses 34-44 of the Song, God speaks directly. The passage ultimately covers the vindication of God by God. It is addressed to the Israelites, even though at times it sounds like God is referring to the enemies of Israel (e.g. in verse 43). And indirectly, He may be -- because whether one is an Israelite idolater, or a heathen idolater, he is still an enemy of God's.

34. God tells us He is indeed "storing" up all these things -- His anger, His revenge. How long will he store them up? How much more godless could Israel have gotten in those days? How much more godless can we become today? We do not know the limits of God, but I assure you that from passages like these we know that He too has limits when it comes to this.

It is interesting that the text says these things are "sealed up in [His] treasuries". The NET Bible says "in [His] storehouses".

35. God says "vengeance is Mine". Period. There will come a time when Israel (and thus us) will slip so far that our calamity will be at hand. It is at this time that the things He has stored up for that time (His anger, His revenge), things He has prepared, will start coming at the Israelites (and thus us).  The NLT and the NET says "I will pay them back."

On these two verses (34 and 35), Matthew Henry writes:

[God shows] displeasure against their wickedness, which he takes notice of, and keeps an account of, v. 34, 35. "Is not this implacable fury of theirs against Israel laid up in store with me, to be reckoned for hereafter, when it shall be made to appear [or made clear] that to me belongs vengeance?' Some understand it of the sin of Israel, especially their persecuting the prophets, which was laid up in store against them from the blood of righteous Abel, Mt. 23:35. However it teaches us that the wickedness of the wicked is all laid up in store with God.

On verse 35, Chuck Smith adds this most interesting account:

That is the text that Jonathan Edwards used for his sermon, Sinners in the hands of an angry God. "Now unto me belongeth vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste." Jonathan Edwards in the sermon Sinners in the hand of an angry God, said, "That a sinner is like a man walking over a fiery pit on a icy plank. Your footing is so unsure at any moment you can slip into the abyss."
It was a very powerful sermon, one of the most classic sermons in the history of the church, I guess. Jonathan Edwards was nearsighted; he had written out the sermon and he read it holding it up close so that he could see it. And as he was reading this sermon to the congregation, the power of the Holy Spirit began to convict people so greatly that they began to crawl down the aisle, screaming out to God for mercy. You want to read something really chilling sometime read "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" by Jonathan Edwards. Oh, what a servant. It's really heavy duty. This is the text for that sermon.

36. But we are then provided with this verse, that says God will judge His people, and then He will have compassion on them, or change His mind about destroying them, when He sees that their strength is totally gone, and they have all but disappeared, either free men or in captivity. It is hard to fully understand what is meant here. Matthew Henry again tries to help us out:

He will [judge] in compassion to his own people, who, though they had greatly provoked him, yet stood in relation to him, and their misery appealed to his mercy (v. 36): The Lord shall judge his people,. that is, judge for them against their enemies, plead their cause, and break the yoke of oppression under which they had long groaned, repenting himself for his servants; not changing his mind, but changing his way, and fighting for them, as he had fought against them, when he sees that their power is gone. This plainly points at the deliverances God wrought for Israel by the judges out of the hands of those to whom he had sold them for their sins (see Jdg. 2:11-18), and how his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel (Jdg. 10:16), and this when they were reduced to the last extremity. God helped them when they could not help themselves; for there was none shut up or left; that is, none that dwelt either in cities or walled towns, in which they were shut up, nor any that dwelt in scattered houses in the country, in which they were left at a distance from neighbours. Note, God's time to appear for the deliverance of his people is when things are at the worst with them. God tries his people's faith, and stirs up prayer, by letting things go to the worst, and then magnifies his own power, and fills the faces of his enemies with shame and the hearts of his people with so much the greater joy, by rescuing them out of extremity as brands out of the burning.

37-38. Then back to chiding or scolding them via a means of ridicule, asking, "Where are their gods? Where is their rock of refuge? Who ate the sacrifices they offered? Let them rise up (since they're dead) to help you (God is talking directly to the Israelites and thus to us here). Hide in them," He mockingly advises.  And He alone is the one that can mock as the next two verses suggest.

39-40. God then speaks again of Who He is. There is no one beside Him. He gives life and He takes life. He wounds and He heals. No one can save anyone from His hand. He lives forever. Henry says He does this by way of an oath: "The divine sentence is ratified with an oath (v. 40): He lifts up his hand to heaven, the habitation of his holiness; this was an ancient and very significant sign used in swearing, Gen. 14:22. And, since he could swear by no greater, he swears by himself and his own life." God will indeed get His revenge as He explains in the next two verses.

41-42. In these two verses, God switches to what He can or would do. If He sharpens His sword and if His hand pursues justice, He will render vengeance on His enemies and will repay those who hate Him. His arrows will be drunk with blood and His sword will devour flesh. The NET says the Hebrew term שָׂנֵא (saneʾ, “hate”) in this covenant context speaks of those who reject Yahweh’s covenant overtures.

If there is anything we see in the world today, especially among many liberal and progressive leaders, is the fact they unequivocally hate God, often by hating everything that God stands for.  God say when the time is right, He will sharpen His sword and get His vengeance, repaying those that hate Him. And that's the bad news these leaders do not want to hear from Christians. And that's why they would prefer that we either shut up or be eliminated one way or another. And folks when we shut up, the Enemy loves it. God's Adversary is inching forward when we do that.

But as these verses tell us the ultimate revenge by God will be a terrible execution of justice. I want no part of it. 

43. Then Moses enters the Song again and is basically encouraging the Israelites (and us) that as God's people we can indeed rejoice. God will avenge us who remain true to Him. He will take revenge out on 'our' enemies and they will 'atone' for what they have done to His land and His people. (The NLT says, "He will cleanse the land for His people.)

Henry says, "in God's Israel there is a remnant whose end will be peace." Amen. 

A judgment day is coming for us all. May I suggest you get to know the Judge now, as well your Advocate.

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God's take on Social Order w.r.t. prostitution, sabbaths, new agers, elderly, strangers, and business dealings.

Leviticus 19:29-37 – Social Order Basics Part V – Miscellaneous Commands

Free at last. Our self-quarantine period is over. Or is it? The government has asked us to stay home for another month at least. So, we meet with our small groups online and we read the paper, watch the news, do crossword puzzles, play some Scrabble. And we continue to study our Bible, which by the way seems to always have this unique ability to say something about today’s global circumstances. Read on.

The Passage

²⁹ ‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness. ³⁰ You shall keep My sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the Lord.

³¹ ‘Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

³² ‘You shall rise up before the gray-headed and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the Lord.

³³ ‘When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.³⁴ The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

³⁵ ‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity.³⁶ You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah (approx. one bushel), and a just hin (approx. one gallon); I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt. ³⁷ You shall thus observe all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them; I am the Lord.’”

Thoughts on the Passage

This passage has some commands that hopefully many of us will not ever need, but that does not mean there aren’t those who need them. The first command here in verse 29 is one of those. God is opposed to the child sex trade (and the entire sex trade for that matter). Exploiting children and adults in that way is to profane them (that is, it is to treat them with disrespect, or irreverence; it pushes them into things which are not sacred as it desecrates their body which is a holy temple of God). The result God says is harlotry (read that as prostitution; others translate it as profligacy or the reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources). And when we do that, God continues and says, the whole land we dwell in becomes full of lewdness (the quality of being very sexual or lustful in an offensive way, an example of which is asking people for sexual favors on the streets). Do you ever feel that our land has become ‘full of lewdness’? David Guzuk reminds us that this order stemmed from the practice in the old days, especially in Egypt when men gave their daughters as ritual prostitutes at a pagan temple.

In the next verse (30), God reminds us to keep His sabbaths and revere His sanctuary because He is the Lord. Keeping His sabbaths in the way that most of us have been accustomed to (by going to church) has become impossible recently, even forbidden in some cases, but there are other ways to keep God’s sabbath. The point is that we need to do ‘something’ different on that day. Normally, we are to ‘rest’ on that day. But now, resting is what we do almost every day. So, now, we may need to either think of all our days as sabbaths (not what God had in mind even during Covid-19) or come up with other ways of worshipping on our sabbaths – more prayer, more singing, more praising.  And the sanctuary of God (in this case a physical place where we may normally go to meet with God) may take on a difference location, size, or shape – it may be our ‘closet’ or our den or our office.

In verse 31, we are forbidden to turn to mediums or spiritists (maybe today the better word is ‘spiritualist’). God says, you choose them, and you lose. You will be defiled. Period. So many so-called Christians live their lives with one foot grounded in the faith and the other grounded in the ‘new age’ lifestyle, running to check to their horoscopes or to get their fortune read. God says ‘no’.

Then comes verse 32 where God is speaking to those who are not “gray-headed” or “aged”.  So, at my age, that’s not me, although I suppose if there were older people in the house, it would be me. But listen to what he says to those that are younger. He says first, get up earlier than those that are older than you. I’m so blessed to be able to sleep in these days, to be awakened by my daughter making coffee in the kitchen. Now if only we can get the grandkids following in their mother’s footsteps, that would be really nice. Although I must admit, it does happen that they do beat everyone up at least once a year (on Christmas morning). And secondly, God says, honor those that are older. Each one of us can find ways to do that, so we’ll leave that up to your imagination and your circumstances. The point is that God says we are to do those two things because by doing so, we “revere [our] God” for “[He is] the Lord”. And that ‘revere’ does not mean that we do it because we ‘fear’ our God. No, it means we do it because we want to show that we feel deep respect or admiration for Him. We do it because we love Him.

Then God tells us again we are to do no wrong to any stranger we come across. Strangers who live ‘with us’ are to be like those who belong there. And we are to treat them with love. God told the Israelites they were to do this because they once were ‘aliens’ in Egypt. We are to do it because, He adds, He is the Lord our God. What is interesting here is that the strangers in our land need to be viewed as ‘natives’ among us. I don’t know about others, and I can’t definitely speak for God, but to me that means we are to treat them no different than we would treat our own people. The question arises what is our responsibility to those who come to our land and don’t want to be like us and start demanding that they be treated differently? Perhaps that is best left for another topic, another day. But clearly, the Word here is clear – treat strangers in our land the same way as you treat natives. So, yes, give them all the rights of citizens of the land, but don’t change those rights or add to them, just to please them.

Finally, in verses 35 and 36 God tells we are not to cheat anyone in our business dealings. Establish your rules of operation and stick to them. Don’t take advantage of the weak or foolish. Judge fairly, pay fairly, treat fairly.

All these things God says will allow society to exist within a desired social order. Why do these things work? Because He is God who created us to operate in this way. And we follow His commands, because He is ‘the’ Lord and He is ‘our’ Lord. Now, if He isn’t ‘your’ Lord, well, you’re excused, but at your own peril, as the world is finding out, not just now through this Covid-19 experience, but since the beginning of man’s history.

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What God's Rules of Cleansing Leprosy Can Teach Us about Judging

Leviticus Chapter 14: Cleansing of People and Houses with Respect to Leprosy

Verses 1-32 describe the process that individuals need to go through if they are suspected of contracting leprosy.  It involves the priests, examinations, declarations, sacrifices, allowances for those that can’t afford the sacrifices, etc. It follows a process not unlike some of the various “offerings” described in earlier chapters.

Verses 33 to 53 describe the process for cleansing a house that a person who was believed to have contracted leprosy needs to have their residence go through. Again, involves all of the above-mentioned elements and may even result in a house being destroyed.

Verses 54 to 57 close off the chapter with a direction to Moses and Aaron that the instructions that were described above had to be ‘taught’ going forward.  God told them it was indeed a “law” with respect to leprosy.

Thoughts on the Passage

Chuck Smith wants us to pay particular attention to verses 49-51:

“To cleanse the house then, he [the priest] shall take two birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop, and he shall slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over funning water. Then he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet string, with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird as well as in the running water and sprinkle the house seven times.” 

He then comments:

“It is interesting that there is sort of a scarlet thread woven through the Old Testament pointing to Jesus Christ. Here the leper was to bring scarlet. We remember that Rahab the harlot was to allow a scarlet cord out the window so that all that would be in the house where the scarlet cord was hanging from the window would be saved when the children of Israel captured Jericho. But the cedar wood could, of course, be looking forward to the cross. And I'm sure that they all in some way looked forward to the cross. Could it be that the cross was of cedar? I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised. The bloodied water surely speaks to us of when Jesus had his side pierced by the Roman soldier and there came forth blood and water. And it speaks of our cleansing through the blood of Jesus Christ. The hyssop, we remember while he was there upon the cross. They took the hyssop bush and they put vinegar upon it and put it to his lips when He cried, "I thirst." So I'm certain that in all of this, there is beautiful symbolism.

And as you read it and just open your heart to the Spirit, I'm sure that God can speak to you and give application to these things to your heart.”

David Guzik suggests that the total shaving of the head (in verse 8) for the ‘cleansed’ leper is an indication of starting all over again as if he were a baby, and that is a reference to the need to be “born again”.  He sees verse 14 as a time of anointing with oil and says,

“Therefore, a cleansed leper had a special calling and a special anointing. One could not go through such a ritual as this and not be changed.”

Matthew Henry says we need to note that:

The gracious care God took of his people Israel, for to them only this law pertained, and not to the Gentiles. When Naaman the Syrian was cured of his leprosy he was not bidden to show himself to the priest, though he was cured in Jordan, as the Jews that were cured by our Saviour were. Thus those who are entrusted with the key of discipline in the church judge those only that are within; but those that are without, God judgeth. [I Corinthians 5:12, 13]

This reference to I Corinthians 5:12, 13 reads as follows:

“For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.”

Isn’t it amazing how we got from leprosy to cleansing to judging one another?  You have to love the cohesiveness of Scripture.

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Warning of The 7th Plague: Hail is Coming, Pharaoh -- Exodus 9:13-21

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.  For this time I will send all My plagues on you and your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.  For if by now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been cut off from the earth.  Still you exalt yourself against My people by not letting them go.  Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.  Now therefore send, bring your livestock and whatever you have in the field to safety.  Every man and beast that is found in the field and is not brought home, when the hail comes down on them, will die.”’”  The one among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses; but he who paid no regard to the word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock in the field.
 

We now come to a portion of Scripture that once again poses some difficulties for the reader.  To begin with we note that this is the second time God has told Moses to rise up early and stand before Pharaoh.  Again, one would argue that is a straightforward request and not strange at all.  When I stop to think about it, I draw on my labor relations world and experience.  I picture Moses as a union leader (from the union’s head office, not an employee of the company) showing up at the corporate headquarters of a multi-national organization early in the morning, without an appointment, and walking into the CEO’s office.  The chances of that happening are next to none, let alone twice in a row.  Unless of course that union leader had such authority or power over the ‘welfare’ of the organization, that while all the management detested him, they knew they had to give him credence and access to themselves.  And I believe that is exactly how Pharaoh viewed Moses.  Thoughts of “Oh no, not him again” were intertwined with “I’d better hear him out and see what his God has in store for us next”.  All this to say that while some skeptics may find Moses’ free access to Pharaoh strange, a skeptical mind like mine, but with the desire to find a way to prove a Scriptural statement, can easily do so.

We next come to another puzzling phrase as God says, “For this time I will send all My plagues on you and your servants and your people . . ..”  Had He not already done this?  Or is the emphasis here on “all My plagues”?  Most commentators imply that up to this point God had not brought about fatal disasters upon the Egyptians.  He had not yet cut them (and their ruler in particular) off from the earth, but was giving Pharaoh every opportunity to obey the Lord.

And now, as Matthew Henry suggests, Moses has to deliver this “most dreadful message” to Pharaoh.  A message which relates that “he is marked for ruin, that he now stands as the butt at which God would shoot all the arrows of his wrath.”  Therein being the interpretation of “all My plagues”.  God had finally stated, as He had foretold Moses, that Pharaoh would not repent and thus his utter destruction had to be brought about.  Up to now God was attacking the temporal aspects of Pharaoh’s life, but now it was time to send plagues that would touch his heart and soul, making him feel hopeless and beyond relief.  There is no longer any opportunity of retreat for Pharaoh.  The time for that had passed.  He had hardened his heart one time too many.

And if you thought that was a hard message for Moses to deliver, take a look at the further request of what God wanted him to share with Pharaoh.  Try telling a “pharaoh” in your life (a spouse, relative, friend, manager, false church leader, or godless world leader, etc.) that his/her legacy, the way history would always see him/her from now on, would be as a everlasting example which brought about both God’s justice and wrath.  In verse 16, God wants Moses to tell Pharaoh that God allowed him to be on the throne of Egypt at this time for the very purpose of showing him (and others) His power and to proclaim His name through all the earth.  And that included Moses, Aaron and all the children of Israel.

As an aside, we note what Matthew Henry said on this very point:  “God sometimes raises up very bad men to honor and power, spares them long, and suffers them to grow insufferably insolent, that he may be so much the more glorified in their destruction at last.”  Henry wrote this commentary on this text back in 1706 (207 years ago) and I believe it is just as applicable today as we look around and see the various world leaders rattling their own sabers – ideologically, financially, militarily, and in some cases, spiritually.  Those of us that have lived a good number of decades have watched the worldly mighty (those that have defied God all their lives) fall from grace over and over again.  And each time the true believer in God is helped to realize that no one can take on the Almighty and win.  Each time we are shown exactly what He wants us to see, that there is “none like Him”.

It is also wise for us to realize that this applies to us as well.   If we are being defiant to God in any way; if we are disobeying Him and continuing to sin against Him in any way, we need to stop and realize what He was telling Pharaoh.  God says, “Oh man (woman), I could have finished you off at any time.  But I have not done so yet, for a reason.”  And then He goes on with Pharaoh as He might well be doing with us, “Even knowing all this, you still exalt yourself against My way, My people, and thus against Me.  I won’t allow this to continue.  Now hear this; hear what is going to happen next.”

God then proceeds to describe what will happen – the plague of hail upon Egypt.  And He says exactly when it will happen.  And not only that, God, in His sovereign grace, tells Pharaoh and all the Egyptians, through Moses, exactly what can be done about it so they might save themselves.  God has done the same for all mankind and us.  In our case, the plague of death will come and then we will be judged.  And because He loves us, He has shown us the way out of the consequences of that judgment.  He has provided His Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the “judgment sentence of death” for our sins, in our place.  The rest is up to us, as it was up to Pharaoh.

What is interesting is that verses 20 and 21 of this chapter tell us that some of Pharaoh’s servants took the advice God had given them through Moses to put their servants and livestock into shelters, thus protecting themselves and their cattle from death – even against the Pharaoh’s wishes.  Some did not, and they left their servants and their cattle out in the open, not believing God would do what He said He would.  I pray we would be in the first of the two categories, even going against the modern-day pharaohs in our lives.

At the beginning of our study on this portion of Scripture, I indicated there were some difficult parts and discussed two of them above.  But there is one more that perhaps may pose an even greater difficulty and it has to do with the Egyptian livestock.  Did we not read just earlier in this very chapter, in Exodus 9:6, that “all the livestock of Egypt died” as a result of a previous plague (the fifth one)?  If so, how then do we explain the availability of all the livestock for this plague of hail (the seventh one) that was about to befall the Egyptians?

This is an excellent question that has been raised before.  Several attempts at answering it apologetically have emerged.  One possibility is that the word “all” in Scripture has often been used to mean “for the most part” or “for the greater part” or “all of a particular category”.  And several examples both from Scripture and from life are given as to how that meaning is a viable possibility.  [For example, when a hockey player is taking a penalty shot in the last game of the championship series which, if he succeeds, gives his team the coveted trophy, the announcer may say, “All eyes are on him.”  Yet we know that is not literally possible.]

Another explanation offers the possibility that the fifth plague only fell on a particular group of livestock for in Exodus 9:3 we see God referring only to the livestock “which are in the field” (and then lists the types).  This also is a possibility.

A third possibility is that since we do not exactly know how much time elapsed between the fifth plague and the seventh, it is possible to assume that Pharaoh started to replenish his livestock by purchasing, or taking by force, livestock from the children of Israel.  Again, this is another possibility.

Finally, let me add my own thought simply as a possibility and not necessarily one that I would be a proponent of over the other possibilities.  It is possible that if we read the text carefully we see that the fifth plague is all about “Egypt” and the livestock of Egypt.  I remember reading or hearing elsewhere that in Bible times as well as today, a ruler of a nation was sometimes referred to using the name of the nation itself.  [Israel is a very good example here, as God called Jacob that and actually changed his name to be that.]   One possibility therefore is that the fifth plague applied only to the Pharaoh’s livestock and not the livestock of the people.  And now the seventh plague applies to all the livestock of the actual land.  Again, others may prove me wrong here.   But this we know for sure, one of these possibilities, or maybe one we have not even come up with, does indeed explain the apparent contradiction.  Cynics can be silenced and believers can give praise for God’s Word is indeed the Truth.   These temporal difficulties of language should never, however, prevent us from grasping the need to examine our own heart when it comes to our obedience to God as discussed above.

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As Rebels Get Close to Tripoli, Are They Moving Towards Disaster?

There is no doubt that Gadhafi's days are limited. More and more of the world seems to be against him. The only trouble is that he has sworn he will fight to his last drop of blood -- and even the blood of his military units (about 6,000) and that means the blood of some or many of the protesters. Gadhafi has also said he will turn Libya into a field of fires. Not sure what that may mean, though. Will he set fire to his oil fields?

All this remains to be seen in the next few days, or more likely hours. We are witnessing major changes in the balance of the world these past few weeks. It is difficult to stay on top of all the news -- the protests for freedom; the calls for Islamic rule; the struggles with economies all over; and the messes that many governments are in financially, socially, and morally -- it is hard to be aware of all this and not wonder what is going on in God's Economy and mind.

Interestingly enough, our guest speaker at church today, Dr. Jonathan Griffiths from the U.K. gave us some wonderful teaching from the 45th Psalm. I'm convinced God is continuing to call His Bride (members of His Church, His Body) to a wedding feast and celebrating with them in a way that will make any royal wedding here on earth pale terribly in comparison. And all this upheaval in the world today is just a lead-in to the setting up of His eternal Kingdom.

In the meantime, take a look at what is going on right now in Libya and be ready for the fall of Gadhafi. But we'd also do well to be thinking about the fact that one day, our own end or rule on earth (like Saddam Hussein's, like Mubarak's, like Gadhafi's now, and so on) will come and we'll have to deal with God at our own judgment. Those that are committed to Him, will be judged positively to an eternal life reigning with Him.  Something else to think about.

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