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19 Oct 2003 09:59:54 AM |
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Evil Bible Quote of the Day for Oct. 19 (God's Anger) |
Evil Bible Quote of the Day for Oct. 19, 2003 from www.EvilBible.com:
God's Anger (2 Chronicles 29:6-11 NLT)
"Our ancestors were unfaithful and did what was evil in the sight of the
LORD our God. They abandoned the LORD and his Temple; they turned their
backs on him. They also shut the doors to the Temple's foyer, and they
snuffed out the lamps. They stopped burning incense and presenting burnt
offerings at the sanctuary of the God of Israel. That is why the LORD's
anger has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem. He has made us an object of
dread, horror, and ridicule, as you can so plainly see. Our fathers have
been killed in battle, and our sons and daughters and wives are in
captivity. But now I will make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel,
so that his fierce anger will turn away from us. My dear Levites, do not
neglect your duties any longer! The LORD has chosen you to stand in his
presence, to minister to him, and to lead the people in worship and make
offerings to him."
What kind of person would get their moral guidance from an ancient book of
myths and magic that says it is OK to murder, rape, pillage, and plunder?
Read more about the evils of the Bible at www.EvilBible.com.
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19 Oct 2003 11:37:59 AM |
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Evil Bible Quote of the Day for Oct. 19, 2003 from www.EvilBible.com:
God's Anger (2 Chronicles 29:6-11 NLT)
"Our ancestors were unfaithful and did what was evil in the sight of the
LORD our God. They abandoned the LORD and his Temple; they turned their
backs on him. They also shut the doors to the Temple's foyer, and they
snuffed out the lamps. They stopped burning incense and presenting burnt
offerings at the sanctuary of the God of Israel. That is why the LORD's
anger has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem. He has made us an object of
dread, horror, and ridicule, as you can so plainly see. Our fathers have
been killed in battle, and our sons and daughters and wives are in
captivity. But now I will make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel,
so that his fierce anger will turn away from us. My dear Levites, do not
neglect your duties any longer! The LORD has chosen you to stand in his
presence, to minister to him, and to lead the people in worship and make
offerings to him."
----- Commentary 2 Chronicles 29:6-11
IV. His speech to the priests and Levites. It was well known, no doubt, that he
had a real kindness for religion and was disaffected to the corruptions of the
last reign; yet we do not find the priests and Levites making application to him
for the restoration of the temple service but he calls upon them, which, I
doubt, bespeaks their coldness as much as his zeal; and perhaps, if they had
done their part with vigour, things would not have been brought into so very bad
a posture as Hezekiah found them in. Hezekiah’s exhortation to the Levites is
very pathetic.
1. He laid before them the desolations of religion and the deplorable state to
which it was brought among them (2 Chron. 29:6, 7): Our fathers have trespassed.
He said not "My father," because it became him, as a son, to be as tender as
might be of his father’s name, and because his father would not have done all
this if their fathers had not neglected their duty. Urijah the priest had joined
with Ahaz in setting up an idolatrous altar. He complained, (1.) That the house
of God had been deserted: They have forsaken God, and turned their backs upon
his habitation. Note, Those that turn their backs upon God’s ordinances may
truly be said to forsake God himself. (2.) That the instituted worship of God
there had been let fall. The lamps were not lighted, and incense was not burnt.
There are still such neglects as these, and they are no less culpable, when the
word is not duly read and opened (for that was signified by the lighting of the
lamps) and when prayers and praises are not duly offered up, for that was
signified by the burning of incense.
2. He showed the sad consequences of the neglect and decay of religion among
them, 2 Chron. 29:8, 9. This was the cause of all the calamities they had lain
under. God had in anger delivered them to trouble, to the sword, and to
captivity. When we are under the rebukes of God’s providence it is good for us
to enquire whether we have not neglected God’s ordinances and whether the
controversy he has with us may not be traced to this neglect.
3. He declared his own full purpose and resolution to revive religion and make
it his business to promote it (2 Chron. 29:10): "It is in my heart (that is, I
am fully resolved) to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel (that is, to
worship him only, and in that way which he has appointed); for I am sure that,
otherwise, his fierce anger will not turn away from us." This covenant he would
not only make himself, but bring his people into the bond of.
4. He engaged and excited the Levites and priests to do their duty on this
occasion. This he begins with (2 Chron. 29:5); this he ends with, 2 Chron.
29:11. He called them Levites to remind them of their obligation to God, called
them his sons to remind them of the relation to himself, that he expected that,
as a son with the father, they should serve with him in the reformation of the
land. (1.) he told them what was their duty, to sanctify themselves first (by
repenting of their neglects, reforming their own hearts and lives, and renewing
their covenants with God to do their duty better for the time to come), and then
to sanctify the house of God, as his servants, to make it clean from every thing
that was disagreeable, either through the disuse or the profanation of it, and
to set it up for the purposes for which it was made. (2.) He stirred them up to
do it (2 Chron. 29:11): "Be not now negligent, or remiss, in your duty. Let not
this good work be retarded through your carelessness." Be not deceived, so the
margin. Note, Those that by their negligence in the service of God think to mock
God, and put a cheat upon him, do but deceive themselves, and put a damning
cheat upon their own souls. Be not secure (so some), as if there were no urgent
call to do it or no danger in not doing it. Note, Men’s negligence in religion
is owing to their carnal security. The consideration he quickens them with is
derived from their office. God had herein put honour upon them: He has chosen
you to stand before him. God therefore expected work from them. They were not
chosen to be idle, to enjoy the dignity and leave the duty to be done by others,
but to serve him and to minister to him. They must therefore be ashamed of their
late remissness, and, now that the doors of the temple were opened again, must
set about their work with double diligence.
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