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\nDeu 32:19-25<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u201cThe LORD saw it and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.\u00a0And he said, \u2018I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\u00a0They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.\u00a0\u201c\u2018And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them;\u00a0they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.\u00a0Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror, for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And when the Lord saw it,…. The disregard of the Jews to Christ, their forgetfulness of him, their disesteem and rejection of him; their continuance of sacrifices, when the great sacrifice was offered up; their setting up other messiahs and saviours, and the idol of their own righteousness, in opposition to the righteousness of Christ; all which not only as the omniscient God he saw, but took notice of, and considered, and did not at once pass judgment on them, at least did not immediately execute it, but waited some time to see how they would afterwards behave; for it was thirty years or more after the crucifixion of Christ that the utter destruction of the Jews came upon them: he abhorred them; in his heart, despised them, and at last rejected them with contempt and abhorrence, very righteously and in just retaliation, see\u00a0Zechariah 11:8<\/span><\/a>; as for what before observed, so for what follows: because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters; which is not to be understood of the Lord being provoked to wrath by the sins of those who called themselves or were called his sons and daughters; for these are such who were truly his sons and daughters, and different from those in\u00a0Deuteronomy 32:20<\/span><\/a>, said to be “children in whom is no faith”: these are no other than the disciples and followers of Christ, that believed in him, both men and women, and so the children of God, his sons and his daughters by special grace; and the “provoking” of them is the wrath of the enemy against them, as the same word is used and rendered in\u00a0Deuteronomy 32:27<\/span><\/a>; and should be here, “because of wrath”, or “indignation against his sons and his daughters” (m); meaning the affliction, distress, and persecution of them, through the wrath of the unbelieving Jews; for after the death of Christ they persecuted his apostles, they beat them and cast them into prison, and put some to death; a persecution was raised against the church at Jerusalem, in which Saul was concerned, who breathed out threatenings and slaughters against the disciples of the Lord, and haled men and women, the sons and daughters of God, and committed them to prison, and persecuted them to strange cities, and gave his voice to put them to death; and in the Gentile world, when the Gospel was carried there, the Jews stirred up the Gentiles everywhere against the followers of Christ, to harass and distress them; and this the Lord saw, and he abhorred them for it, and rejected them. (Gill)<\/p>\n
When God\u2019s people forsake Him, He withdraws the closeness of His presence. This is the opposite of the favor of God expressed in His face shining upon His people. (Guzik)<\/p>\n
It is a dangerous and dreadful thing to be counted among those\u00a0in whom is no faith<\/b>. \u201cI beg you to lay to heart this fact, that unless you have faith in Jesus you will perish just as surely as if you were an open denier of the word of God and a reviler of his Son. There are, doubtless, degrees in the terribleness of the punishment, but there are no degrees in the certainty of the fact that every unbeliever will be shut out from the blessing of the gospel of Christ.\u201d (Spurgeon)<\/p>\n
Nothing was or is hidden from God. Our thoughts, words, and actions are all known by Him. He has given us His Word, whereby we might gain understanding and knowledge of His holiness and our sinfulness, His promises and purpose, His righteousness, His grace, mercy and love, His wrath, anger, and coming judgment, His power, might, all-knowing, and ever-presence, His salvation through Christ, and His gift of the Holy Spirit. In light of this and as Paul stated; \u201cWhat manner of persons should you be?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deu 32:19-25\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe LORD saw it and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.\u00a0And he said, \u2018I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.\u00a0\u00a0They have made me jealous with what … Continue reading “53.f. Wilderness – 17.l. \u201cThe LORD saw it and spurned them?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18337,964,1400,18338,18339,612,10023,76,18341,643,3788,928,796,18335,5704,18342,13615,18336,18340,10022,3439,18334,10207,10204],"class_list":["post-194066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-a-fire-is-kindled","tag-against-them","tag-anger","tag-burns-tot-he-depths-of-sheol","tag-devours-earth","tag-faithfulness","tag-foolish-nation","tag-god","tag-heap-disasters","tag-hide-my-face","tag-idols","tag-jealous","tag-lord","tag-no-god","tag-perverse-generation","tag-plague-and-poisonous-pestilence","tag-provocation","tag-provoked-me","tag-sets-on-fire-the-foundations-of-the-mountains","tag-spurned-them","tag-terror","tag-their-end-will-be","tag-venom","tag-wasted-with-hunger"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194071,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194066\/revisions\/194071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}