Desolation and captivity for the stubborn. ‘If then, you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times in accordance with your sins. Lev 26:21
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
OUT LINE OF THE BOOK LEVITICUS
A Manual of Worship at the Tabernacle
IV. THE LAWS OF HOLINESS AND SACRED FESTIVALS,
4. Blessings for Obedience; Chastisement for Disobedience, Lev_26:1-46
31. What was to be the fate of the stubborn?
PUNISHMENT FOR DISOBEDIENCE
‘If then, you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times in accordance with your sins.
I will let loose the [wild] animals of the field among you, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you so few in number that your roads will lie deserted and desolate. [2Ki_17:25-26]
‘And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,
then I also will act with hostility against you, and I will strike you seven times for your sins.
I will bring a sword on you that will execute vengeance for [breaking] the covenant; and when you gather together in your cities, I will send pestilence (virulent disease) among you, and you shall be handed over to the enemy. [Num_16:49; 2Sa_24:15]
When I break your staff of bread [that is, cut off your supply of food], ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will ration your bread; and you will eat and not be satisfied. [Hag_1:6]
‘Yet if in spite of this you will not [attentively] listen to Me but act with hostility against me,
then I will act with hostility against you in wrath, and I also will punish you seven times for your sins.
You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. [2Ki_6:28-29]
I will destroy your high places [devoted to idolatrous worship], and cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies upon the [crushed] bodies of your idols, and My soul will detest you [with deep and unutterable loathing]. [2Ki_23:8, 2Ki_23:20]
I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your sweet and soothing aromas [of offerings by fire]. [2Ki_25:4-10; 2Ch_36:19]
I will make the land desolate, and your enemies who settle in it will be appalled at it.
I will scatter you among the nations and draw out the sword [of your enemies] after you; your land will become desolate and your cities will become ruins. [Psa_44:11-14]
‘Then the land [of Israel] will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
As long as it lies desolate, it will have rest, the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it. [2Ch_36:21]
As for those who are left of you, I will bring despair (lack of courage, weakness) into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a scattered leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as if [running] from the sword, and will fall even when no one is chasing them.
They shall stumble over one another as if to escape from a sword when no one is chasing them; and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.
You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.
Those of you who are left will rot away because of their wickedness in the lands of your enemies; also because of the wickedness of their forefathers they will rot away like them.
‘If they confess their wickedness and the wickedness of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they have committed against Me–and also in their acting with hostility toward Me–
I also was acting with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies–then if their uncircumcised (sin-filled) hearts are humbled and they accept the punishment for their wickedness, [2Ki_24:10-14; Dan_9:11-14]
then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham, and remember the land. [Psa_106:44-46]
But the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment for their wickedness and make amends because they rejected My ordinances and their soul rejected My statutes.
Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so despise them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. [Deu_4:31-35; Jer_33:4-5, Jer_33:23-26; Rom_11:2-5]
But I will, for their sake, [earnestly] remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.'”
These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws which the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses at Mount Sinai.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Leviticus 26:21-46
DESOLATION AND CAPTIVITY FOR THE STUBBORN
Notwithstanding the solemn and appalling pictures placed before Israel in these verses, they forsook the Lord and served other gods. Thus, they brought upon themselves the sore judgments threatened against them, consisting of defeat, scarcity, wild beasts, pestilence and famine, the horrors of siege and desolation, followed by dispersion to the four winds of heaven. The book of Judges illustrates the first, and the destruction of Jerusalem, as told by Josephus, the last of these plagues.
Under the curse of this chapter the chosen people are suffering to this very hour. Scattered and peeled, wasted and outcast, they are monuments of God’s truthfulness to His word. They teach an impressive lesson which the nations of the world would do well to lay to heart. Note that remarkable expression about accepting their punishment, as the necessary condition of forgiveness and restoration. The same condition always holds.
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