Post by Lee on Dec 5, 2014 3:48:30 GMT
Ch. 2:1-2: Injustice in Judah. Though they were all the chosen children and close family of God, they oppressed and abused one another. Civil war is always the bitterest war. The closer the relationship, the deeper the feeling—either for good or for ill. Most murders are in the family. We must be careful of this among ourselves. We are the family of God, very closely knit together. Our closeness must be for good, and for comfort, and for patience, and for strength—never for bitterness or antagonism. We tend to take our own people for granted, and to let our feelings and actions run free with a harshness and rudeness we'd never show
to strangers. The only preventative of this is ever-increasing kindness and love in the spirit.
Vs. 3-5: They would be utterly spoiled and lose all their heart-set worldly possessions; and so it later came to pass.
V. 6: "Don't prophesy to us!" Mind your own business and don't tell us how to run our private lives! So the stupidity of the flesh has always reacted to exhortation.
V. 7: Are your calamities because God's power to help you is limited? Or because He does not care? Doesn't God's Word always bring true peace of mind and happiness to those who obey it? Show a case where it is otherwise!
Vs. 8-9: It is their own wickedness that brings their trouble.
V. 10: The ultimatum: "Your opportunity has passed! Get out! Go into captivity. The land is polluted." They could not recognize the pollution, because it must be spiritually discerned by the Light of the Word of God.
V. 11: They want no prophets except those false ones who will flatter them and preach prosperity.
Vs. 12-13: A joyful, merciful break in a message of gloom. The final deliverance and regathering—gathered together as scattered sheep.
The "Breaker" is come to them. Another strange and significant expression. Christ is the Breaker—to break open the gates of death; to break through their enemies; to break the barriers of their captivity; and above all, to break them and their fleshly spirit, so they may be acceptable to God.
V. 13: "Their King shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them."
Rene - 1972 Berean 16
to strangers. The only preventative of this is ever-increasing kindness and love in the spirit.
Vs. 3-5: They would be utterly spoiled and lose all their heart-set worldly possessions; and so it later came to pass.
V. 6: "Don't prophesy to us!" Mind your own business and don't tell us how to run our private lives! So the stupidity of the flesh has always reacted to exhortation.
V. 7: Are your calamities because God's power to help you is limited? Or because He does not care? Doesn't God's Word always bring true peace of mind and happiness to those who obey it? Show a case where it is otherwise!
Vs. 8-9: It is their own wickedness that brings their trouble.
V. 10: The ultimatum: "Your opportunity has passed! Get out! Go into captivity. The land is polluted." They could not recognize the pollution, because it must be spiritually discerned by the Light of the Word of God.
V. 11: They want no prophets except those false ones who will flatter them and preach prosperity.
Vs. 12-13: A joyful, merciful break in a message of gloom. The final deliverance and regathering—gathered together as scattered sheep.
The "Breaker" is come to them. Another strange and significant expression. Christ is the Breaker—to break open the gates of death; to break through their enemies; to break the barriers of their captivity; and above all, to break them and their fleshly spirit, so they may be acceptable to God.
V. 13: "Their King shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them."
Rene - 1972 Berean 16