Published: May 26, 2024 | Speaker: Tim Freitag | Series: Amos - Daily Rising Early and Sending the Prophets - Part 4 | Scripture: Amos 1:1-2:3
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this morning continuing our look at
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I'm going to be a little more ambitious today and try to take more than one verse um last week of course we were able to talk a little bit about the opening Salvo of the message um that
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Amos has been entrusted to take to the people of Israel um and we see the um the poetic use of voice here um it's
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interesting again you have here the the opening in in 1 one the words of Amos and then he is very careful in the message that
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he's delivering it opens the theme opens with the voice of Yahweh the voice of God roaring out of the citadels underscoring that this is a
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message entrusted to him um conspicuously The Roaring uh like a lion um the withering of the pastures Amos as the shepherd these things sort of tie
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together and then the idea that this this theme Here that he's setting out in verse one is very much the idea that the voice of the Lord the voice of judgment and condemnation is coming from inside
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the borders it's coming from uh inside the Citadel from your security your safety your stronghold um the Judgment coming upon you is is from
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inside this withering of the prosperity that we see with the shepherd's pasture grounds and the the summit of Carmel um I'm going to read I have gone and done um a little
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bit of a translation I don't think it's going to be terribly different but there are a few choices made here that we'll discuss as we go forward but I'm going to read effectively from 1 one through
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24ish uh probably stop at 2 three the words of Amos who was among the herdsmen of tcoa who saw Visions
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concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of jeroboam son of joash king of Israel two years before the earthquake and he said
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Yahweh from Zion Roars and from Jerusalem he gives voice then Mourns the shepherd's Meadows and the peak of caramel Withers thus says Yahweh for
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three transgressions of Damascus and for four I will not turn it back for their threshing of Gilead with Implements of iron and I will set fire to the house of Hazel and it shall consume the citadels
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of benh Hadad I will break bre the bolt of Damascus and cut off dwellers from aen Veil and from him who holds the scepter of Beth aen and the peoples of
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Aram shall go captive to cure says Yahweh thus says Yahweh for three transgressions of Gaza and for four I will not turn it back for they're inflicting a total exile to deliver up
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to Edom and I will set fire to gaza's wall and it shall consume her citadels and I will cut off dwellers from ashdod and him who holds the
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scepter from ashalon then I will turn my hand against erron and the Philistines Remnant Shall Perish says Lord Yahweh
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thus says Yahweh for three trespasses of TI and for four I will not turn it back for they're inflicting a total Exile delivering wholesale to Edom and they
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did not recall the Covenant of Brotherhood and I will set fire to tyre's wall and it shall consume her C Els thus says Yahweh for three
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transgressions of Ed Edom and for four I will not turn it back for pursuing his brothers with the sword and stifling his compassion his anger tore continually
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and he kept up his wrath unending I will set a fire in Taman and it shall consume the citadels of bosra thus says Yahweh
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for three trespasses of the ammonites and for four I will not turn it back for their splitting open the pregnant women women of Gilead so as to expand their borders and I will light a fire on the
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wall of rabah and it shall consume her citadels with war cries on the day of battle and with a tempest on the day of the Whirlwind and their King shall go into Exile he and his princes together
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says Yahweh thus says Yahweh for three trespasses of Moab and for four I will not turn it back and for his burning the bones of edom's King into lme and I will
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set fire to Moab and it shall consume the citadels of curith and Moab shall die in an uproar in shouts and in the
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of uh sorry the sound of the Ram's Horn um and I will cut off the judge from her midst and all her princes I will slay with him says Yahweh um from there he's going to pick up with Judah and then on to Israel but I'm going to stop there
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with the judgment on the Nations sorry I got distracted by my own note there in 22 the sound of Ram's Horn if you guys are familiar of course with the chaar it's literally that's the word
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it's with the sound of the chaar um I distracted myself with a footnote I footnote I apologize um so the judgment on the
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Nations The Prophecy from the words of Amos or the mouth of Amos he begins with
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Damascus or perhaps better known as Syria and this is not intended to be a geography quiz by any means but Syria of course is going to be sort
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herish in relation to Israel at this time Gaza um is the second one that's called out here and Gaza at the time was effectively the capital of
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philistia and I don't know if I'm going to Peg it exactly correctly on the map but it's sort of on this end of things isn't
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oh sorry so here I was about to say Gaza is further north than that isn't it thought it was on the the upper end of um so as we
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follow these around then Tyre of course Ty and siden show up in a lot of prophecies and the Lord in his own voice will condemn Israel with them
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later I don't know why I C capitalize that one uh the Phoenicians that's not right is it I was about to say it goes in with
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the it's not quite as bad as Pharaoh but um it's going to be kind of up on this end of things back North somewhere
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in this
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Edom Edom of course being those descendants of
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but and then Edom if I recall correctly is on this side right sort of over here of the Dead Sea between the of the Red Sea down here or Moab is here that's
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okay so I should probably label these say no I'm going to label them so that I don't forget which one was
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and then finally he's going to get to
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a Oracle we have not yet read against Judah and and then finally he's going to turn to Israel
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forget I wrote eat them again it's because I'm thinking about cheese about cheese no can't even talk in right wow what a
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mess okay that over with hopefully we'll get ourselves back on track now um it's interesting however that we pick
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up and we've briefly discussed this in the sort of preliminaries but the words of Amos which he saw saw Visions concerning Israel and then we launch into this judgment against the Nations it's not until down here that we're
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actually getting to Israel so what's going on with this a number of the um commentators suggest that this is some kind of bait and switch that Amos is telling the people what they want to
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hear before he hits them with the Judgment I don't think that's it at all um I don't think it's not a clever rhetorical device I think there's actually a number of things that we can pull out of the judgments on the Nations
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it is a a mult mfold um communication that God is is putting in here first of which is God's sovereignty over the Nations not just his chosen people um that God's vision
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and his intention and his purposes stretch over the whole earth um you can see this again not to to uh reach outside too much but just in terms of
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talking about prophets there are obvious um references to this in Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel there this will be stated very explicitly God's sovereignty
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over these nations um you of course have the famous uh moment in habac in which God is describing how he's going to use one of these nations as an Implement and
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habach objects basically saying you're too pure to even look upon evil how can you take this Evil Nation in your own hands as an Implement and God doesn't rebuke him for that comment so much as
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to reiterate his the all lands are mine all things are tools in my hands everything is at at my disposal I am Sovereign over all of these um it may be worth mentioning here Amos
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does not offer an oracle against Egypt he doesn't uh mention anything about the Assyrians or nothing sort of futur looking surprised me a little bit how
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many of the commentators wanted to talk about Babylon given that the actual Babylonian exile is not until about 150 years after Amos and Babylon as such would not even really be nent for
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another 70 80 almost 100 years um if anything the Assyrians were kicking around but not particularly strong at the time so um Babylon kind of occupies a lot of
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space in people's heads but the actual Babylonian Neo Babylonians I should say that we think of as the Babylonian exile is not coming until significantly after amos's specific message I think that's a
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very important point but I don't know exactly what it means these are nothing but these are states in the ancient world this is more like a neighborhood
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squabble you know where you had a subdivision where nobody gets along no but none of the big the Hittites the Egyptians the Assyrian none of them are
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mentioned at all it's all just this well I neighborhood I do have a thought in that regard because one of the things that's happening here um is again some of the commentators that I'm reading are
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trying to pull out hermeneutical principles out of this and mention you know that it sort of has to do with the prophets messages have to do with the things the context in their own day
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that's largely true but one of the things that's happening right now and we talked about this when we talked about the history um Israel and Judah are effectively the big player in the area
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at this moment when Amos is out there they are the biggest power in the area at the time Egypt is in Decline Neo Bonia isn't even really there Assyria is
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effectively in a lull Israel's kind of the big dog in the neighborhood at the moment now they have fights we will see in the the specific condemnations they are at war with these
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things but at this specific moment this is a period in which um they had actually expanded the borders almost back to Solomon's day
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almost back to the full davidic range so effectively Israel is kind of the major influence at the moment um so one of the things
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that we're going to see as we go down here is that doesn't actually help Israel in these condemnations we'll get there but Egypt
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is in Decline Assyria isn't really doing much at the moment and B Neo Babylonia isn't really there yet um so we're about 150 years or so ahead of the Babylonian
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exile depending on which decade you want to Peg amos's Ministry to um one of the reasons I I asked to do this and I I apologize Aon that I had you put this up for this reason alone but one of the
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questions that comes up a lot is why are they in this order why are we doing the Nations this way um and there were a number of uh suggested Solutions some of
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them more convoluted than others none of which I found particularly satisfactory um there's not a particular chronological order to the judge J Ms
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that are given um these don't correspond in a chronological order to things that were happening in Israel's history as far as I can read William Hendrickson seems to agree with me there the um some
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have tried to make sort of a spiral out of it but if you follow them in order that doesn't even really work either because you because you go one
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two three uh what all the way back down though four so now we're not spiraling five and then six
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um maybe it's because I spent hours and hours yesterday working on the brakes on my truck and I took all of the tires off and put them back on but the thing that occurred to me was um I was taught when
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you put a tire back on and mine had five okay so one 2 3 four five you don't do them in a circle you're supposed to go
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across you go one 2 3 four five right and that to me feels like what we're doing here we're tightening the screws on the machine we are going around in
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such a way that this this judgment is not going to move we're securing the wheel around Israel here this is not nearly as as
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that but for the most part if you if you draw a line if you connect the dots just about every line runs through right and
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that is the more accurate perhaps is the suggestion that it's it's kind of a crisscross it's not quite but effectively you are running
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through Israel's through Israel's territory um it
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also Jalem it's I do think that's partly it the other thing that occurred to me in this uh sense and maybe you guys don't watch terrible superhero movies like I have but you know those scenes where
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everything is falling apart and our hero the the camera is panning around our heroes as a thing explodes over here and over here and over here it's almost cinematic the way that that um Amos is
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is panning around Israel saying here's a judgment here's a judgment here's a judgment here's the destruction is all around you and that's the significant thing is as we come back to it these are
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the borders um these this is all around and the other thing that occurred occurred to me in this that I didn't see so much in the commentators but there is also an element of
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the we're we're told in the the final judgment in in the Lord's return that he will come like a thief in the night there is an element of almost unpredictability to the to the order of these in the sense that God is not going
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clockwise or chronologically in the beef that they have with Israel he's coming upon them as the Lord brings up the indictments it's his uh timing his order
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his intention significantly though these judgments this this rendering of judgment to the Nations is not delivered to the to the Nations it's delivered to
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Israel Amos was sent to preach to Israel and he has now come into Israel preaching about these nations he didn't go to Moab he didn't go to Gaza and
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preach there Jonah was sent to Nineveh of course probably in a similar time period but he's delivering the message to to Israel these prophecies against the Nations I think have two elements
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here one of which is there's a prophecy against the Nations lest by the time we get to Israel they claim to be singled out that the Lord is being unfair to Israel and condemning them for things
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that all the nations are getting away with all of my siblings are doing these things and God's not punishing them well you don't get to say that because he's gone down the list but he doesn't stop the list with all of the
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Nations he comes to Israel lest Israel says we are chosen we have the favor of Yahweh we get to get away with these things because we're the special people and all the nations all those heathens
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around us will they get punished Ariel maybe not time but wonder if you would that against the passage in the New Testament that says if judgment starts with the house of God how much harder
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will it be on the unbeliever I wonder there there is and and I think we're going to get there one of the things that's happening here is
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is Amos does bring the message from the Lord in this order that narrows in on Israel it's almost the inverse of this which is to say all of these nations
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around you are being punished for and we're going to read in their specific indictments they're being punished for assaulting destroying and in some cases effectively trying to perpetrate genocide against the people of
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God so are you Israel you Israel are doing the same things that the Nations are doing to your own people it's that element of the
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yeah the the special relationship with God makes it worse on you not
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second ask question yes it says
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sure yeah I appreciate your point about today um you know Chuck mentioned on Thursday night the the extreme uh misuse that is unfortunately very common about prophecy and I thought boy if I wanted to be that way we could get into Gaza oh
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boy if you look at the news at all we could go down the road of Gaza and setting the walls on fire and all that we're not going to do that obviously because we're talking about this in the context now there is an element of um
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frankly I think this area is always going to be a mess in part because of the history that we're currently looking at um I think it it comes down all the way down that enmity between Israel and
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the Nations as much as you should not conflate secular Israel of today with God's people that he picked out here the history that built up there I
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don't think is ever going to uh alleviate that does that make sense in terms of the the three transgressions and four um I'll come to that in a
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minute um Let me let me finish this thought and then we'll talk about the transgressions because the the time frame is an interesting question um so it is against both Nations and Israel um
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and these nations raged against Israel God says I will punish you for Raging against Israel but also I will punish you Israel for destroying God's people you Israel are at fault in the exact
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same vein I find it interesting that in several cases the sins were were not necessar against
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Israel against others of neighbors there are there are fights against each other and and there's a couple of interesting things happening with Edom and the fact that uh unspecified Exiles are being offered up
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to Edom it's not clear who's being taken captive in those verses well that's that's the prophecy against go right that they're um there's yeah I was about to
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say antire were Israelites that it wouldn't make sense it would be more Judit down south like that but I I think even today we mentioned what's going on today we we
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look at that of course on the college campuses there's this homogenous group called Palestinians right which is absolutely not homogeneous at all right it's no
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more homogeneous today than it was 2,000 years ago 3,00 2500 when when this took place um they're they're all
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tribal Arabic right yeah and we've only got eight listed here there's probably 24 or more now that you could pull out
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easily um that's good point um so we we will try to get into the specific indictments as we go down because um it is fair and and part of what I want to do as we go
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forward in the indictments is to bring out not just why these specific things but what does it tell us so one of the the questions we've talked about is as
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we read the prophets why do we care now we don't live in 8th Century Israel does it particularly matter in the history of this person did that against that person
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one of the things that we're going to see here is um as God indict them for things it tells us something about the nature of a what he finds offensive and
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be what he will and won't permit in terms of the the Nations and the people somebody had a hand up you and then Ariel just it may I think you've made
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the point before that that main idea here is the way you treat one another it Str me that the the Common Thread whatever the particular incidents are
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among the Nations is that it's speaking of international incidents or inter tribal incidents whereas you get down to Judah and Israel and he's talking about what they do within their own borders
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yeah and and again not to conflate any particular um one of the oracles against the the Nations as a whole but this they forgot
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the Covenant of Brotherhood um one of the the commentators I think made a mistake there trying to say well well Esau was brother of J well that's not who was being talked about that's not
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the one against Edom that's the one against Tire I think um so we'll deal with some of those as we go Ariel you had your hand up what I was going to ask thank you your less learned Israelites
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were told Don't Ed On's land yeah so I was going to ask what about am Damascus we know Ty was Phan so not a a familial
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TI is Gaza the philes also they were to be driven out and destroyed so is there a tenuous connection to the Lord through
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basically all the way back to Abraham's time yes in some of those but what about the others and yet why are they all listed right so and then the other question that I that I have over to the
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side here that hopefully we get to today is um there is a sense in which a lot of the indictments are sort of um you
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either tried to wipe out or you carried off a group of people from your neighbor effectively a form of genocide is is the contention
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And yet when you look at the conquest of the promised land the Lord specifically tells Israel to go in and wipe a certain group of people out in a couple of instances says go in there and take them
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all out and one of the things that causes a thorn in the side of Israel well into David's day is you didn't finish the job you did not actually remove all the people you were supposed to remove so there is a question mark of
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the well why is it okay when God tells Israel to do it and why is it not okay when Ammon decides that he wants to carry off a bunch of you know Phoenicians for example so as we we go I
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want to get into that but um I'm going to try to follow our thread here before I lose all of this and I'm going to come back to Abe's question also of the of the sort of time
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frame the other piece I want to pick out while we've got the map up here though and and Chuck pointed this out I think it was last week you know this is effectively the bordering of Israel
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you know that's not exactly accurate to the time but roughly speaking these are all the borders on Israel these are all the neighbors that are touching their border um James you had your hand up
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yeah yes so it it does go back to the history there of the um the the relationship there and the there is a certain amount of international diplomacy right of of him having a good relationship with them but now we're
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effectively at war or or uh fighting you had your hand up oh okay um so yes yes there is certainly history in in the history of Israel and I don't know that
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we're going to get all of it out today but as we talk about this you know the significance of it again to return to this point Israel is effectively the big dog in the neighborhood it's
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expanded its borders out to the almost the solomonic extent it's the current strongest player probably if not the wealthiest among the wealthiest of the
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Nations at this time um they have actually had a Resurgence effectively a Renaissance their businesses are doing well Tire apparently kind of almost
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always did well I guess being really good at sailing you were a great Merchant but um I didn't look up the comparative but Israel's definitely up there at the time they are on their ascendancy they are doing well in terms
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of military power in terms of Border in terms of uh monetary wealth and and influence they're effectively on top and Amos is bringing this word from
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the Lord against them saying I've got an issue with how you all are treating each other and it's going to hone in on first Judah and then Israel
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you should be using the power the influence the wealth that you have better than you are there is a way that God wants you to treat the people around you there is a way that God wants you to witness I mean we are several
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hundred years into Israel's history now as the people of God Called to be different among the Nations and what you're going to find as he gets into
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their indictments is you're not treating people any differently than the you've got the wealth you've got the power you've got the ability to do what I asked you to do and you are doing the
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opposite did you have your yeah I did I I wonder from your outline I and what you just said I was thinking about this whether or not Judah should go ahead and
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be added I mean not only would that give you Seven Nations I did waffle on whether I would bring up Judah today or not but I I probably should have read you know the next couple of verses uh um
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it's really four and five and I'll go ahead and read them out of the The New American Standard here because I I think you're right it Israel obviously the message to from from Amos is aimed at Israel and
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Judah while it is the southern Kingdom and there is a a relationship of as the people of God it is almost treated in the same way and yes it's very nice to
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get to Seven um you know numer numerologically here um so I'm going to read verses four and 5 it says thus thus says Yahweh for three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke it
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or I will not turn it back because they rejected the law of Yahweh and have not kept his statutes their lies have also LED them astray those after which their fathers walked so I will send fire upon
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Judah and I will consume the citadels of Jerusalem um which brings us to uh this point which is
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there is a a template effectively that that we're going to see used consistently in the message here and I don't mean it flippantly I don't think God does form
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letters um but you do see effectively the refrain here that comes up over and over again which is thus says
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it does read I think as a list of indictments it is uh almost a poetic setting of of legal
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terminology um again we talked about the the sort of format that the Oracles of the prophets often take including indictment description instruction we are very much in the indictment here
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of here's what the Lord is is bringing uh against you or against your
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account and uh oops that's actually it it will cons
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assume and their
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strongholds so the format is effectively thus says Yahweh for three transgressions of fill in the nation and for four um will not turn it back because of and
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then he describes or indicts the particular sin I will send a fire upon that Nation sorry I know yeah yeah get interrupted all the time no it's it's
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it's great I love the questions but it just seems to me
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he that particular transgression yes it's almost like that's the fourth one I think that's it broke the C back you did this this this one here is probably the worst so I don't know that no I I
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appreciate that because that is where we're going with this which just to say the the three transgressions in for four is if you think back to what Aaron
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taught us out of Deuteronomy in that sort of description or or recap that Moses gives a little bit of the of the um moving around and how we're not supposed to interact with this person we're not supposed to interact with that
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person but you also have the element of um as it's later given to Joshua when you go into the land and you do these things you're actually told in the conquest why we're doing this why are
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these people being stripped out of the land this is the promised land it was promised to Israel it was promised rather to Abraham and then carries on down through but the Lord doesn't just say sorry your tendency is over you have
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to vacate the landlord says you got to get out he's condemning the people there as too evil to remain on the land so when he sends Israel in he says they
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have filled up the measure they that you're thinking of like you know one of those Nene water bottles that you carry around they took it all the way up to the top and let it overflow their sins
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have reached the Max and gone over and there is an element in um and not to get too deep into the weeds here but the the three and the four there is a a form of
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hebraism to it which is to say um three is the number of completion not to be super numerological about things it just is that that's a consistent use of it in in the text the
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three is complete and what he's saying is you fil you you finished you got three and then you added another one and I do think as he's bringing out a specific indictment that one is the
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fourth but there is also the I mean some people like to say oh great you know you can add the three and the four and get seven I really it's you you were at you were at the top and you went over and
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one of the things we're going to get out here and I think it actually comes out very upside oras it I think there's a significant contrast when unfortunately it's going to be next week when we talk about the the indictment against Edom
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what does he specifically call Edom about that they were always always always always always mad about being Esau's descendants effectively that they were always in a
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rage God is saying I the Holy One have endured three transgressions I have been patient with you through three terrible things that you have done and that
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wasn't enough for you you went and tried me with another one I can't hold back um that's what we're getting at is the I don't to answer your previous question I
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don't have a specific time frame I do think that it's not over the entire hundreds of years I want to say it was probably within the last century of their time frame but God is saying this
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is the moment this is the time you have gone Beyond you have exceeded sorry James first and then I'll come back to
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you right journe and right so so what we're getting at is is God has said I have been patient I have been um forbearing with you and and
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it you've you've you've just trampled you've effectively taken it for granted you've trampled over God's loving kindness his patience with you
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think yeah I think it's more than the just the most recent generation with the Nations that he's condemning how many hundreds of years I wouldn't be prepared to say I do think though that when you look at the general time scale in the history which hopefully we can do a
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little bit next week Israel is born with more than the surrounding nations are because they are God's chosen people um and there it is significant again um we
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talked about this actually I think it was a conversation that happened after the fact you know when you talk about the sort of Northern Kingdom most of the initial writing prophets are sent to Israel not to Judah Israel is the one
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that goes into captivity first Judah goes into captivity later so there's there's a sense in which I don't know if it's the crimes or the timeline is counting down faster on Israel than it
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is on Judah um Chuck I would I would caution about using the word captivity for Israel okay because they were actually scattered right they
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were dispersed yeah you can't you got to keep in mind that as with the other nations Israel was completely dispersed yeah they were not as opposed to Judah
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which was all 12 tribes were represented in the Captivity Israel wasn't taken captive it was scattered that's a good point and I I appreciate that because that's one of the things I wanted to say
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as we go in here and we're we're going to need to close soon but I think one of the consistent threads that you can pull out among this these indictments including Israel
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is the word used here your your translations may say trespass it may say sin those are reasonable translations the sense in here is literally war crimes or crimes against humanity um it
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doesn't translate poetically but that's the sense that you're getting out of Amos is the you're committing crimes against humankind against God's creation effectively and one of the things that I think you see consistently in the
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indictments is the you weren't just doing War against the people you were attempting to wipe them out um you know you look at one of the the indictments here um and it's it's very graphic it's
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it's horrible and that's part of the point but he says um you know against the the sons of Aman um because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to what in order to enlarge
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their borders the idea here is not only is he assaulting the people he's making sure they don't have any descendants to occupy that land that they are their Generations will cease and that land is
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ours because the people on it can't lay claim to it anymore if they don't exist that's what he's getting at here is you're attempting to remove them from the face of the Earth so that they cease
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to exist and he is going in the end to basically do that to the Kingdom of Israel scatter it among the Nations whereas Judah not only will have a
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Remnant left even in the midst of the Exile there are a handful of people that remain but they will also return to it so when we talk about you know it's going to be all the way at the end in
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chapter N9 but there is that element of the davidic return and the the um the hope that remains at the end of the day but it comes down to this you're you're basically you're trying to remove people
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from the face of the Earth and I think to briefly answer the question and we'll probably come back to it next week the difference between the indictment that God is throwing at them and what you see
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in the the promised land Conquest is God was saying the people in the promised land have got to go they've got to be removed from the earth their time is up
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and what you're finding with all of these nations is they're saying well we've decided we the nation have decided that those people are gone we're going to get rid of them it's not a command from God saying their their wickedness
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is complete their line has ended it's their own valtion that's doing these things and we're going to come back to this element of the um the role of the prophet in the face of the king
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effectively because as you move into this time frame and we're going to we're seeing it a little bit from Aaron's study in study in Deuteronomy Moses's prophetic uh discussion when you get the Kings you
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start to get more prophets the prophets are there effectively to re in the excesses of the Kings usually but also when God
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relinquishes When God says okay you guys can have a king over you that King becomes the one who's making the decisions for Israel before you had a an out andout theocracy in which God was
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saying here's what you do here's where you go here's how this happens then the king takes on that role and one of the things that's happening in these indictments is he's saying you have the authority over the nation and you're
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you're steering it exactly opposite to the way that I have told you to there any other questions before we close this morning have to pick up the
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thread next time but just a cross reference from Deuteronomy this from when the most high gave to the Nations their inheritance when he divided mankind he fixed the borders of the
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people according to the number of the sons of God but yahweh's portion is his people Jacob his AED Heritage yeah I appreciate that so we're
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going to come back to not as much of the geography but but dig in a little more to the to the transgressions and the time frame here um next week but let's close in a word
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word of prayer father we do thank you for this word we thank you for just how much you have um embedded
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of yourself in here I find myself often guilty of not digging deep enough not searching out enough but enough but your your majesty and the awesomeness of
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how you have put so much information into such a small space about yourself self about your will about your ways never ceases to amaze father so we thank you for your wisdom for
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your entrusting these things to remain even to our day recorded for us for our information for our edification we ask that you would help us as we seek to to
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read to study to enlarge our understanding that you would bless it and that you would Prosper it we ask these things in Jesus name amen