tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post558244129417619024..comments2024-03-12T10:35:54.578-05:00Comments on Homeward Bound: Lord, Teach Us To Pray! Part 152Michael Boldea Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09695469447648193872noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-90960473521820338212012-08-27T15:50:38.950-05:002012-08-27T15:50:38.950-05:00Wow, Melanie, that's a great explanation. I h...Wow, Melanie, that's a great explanation. I hadn't thought of that, that the onlookers may not have worshiped the idol but they sure didn't try to stop it either! Sins of commission are easier to see sometimes than the sins of omission ... <br /><br />Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-6482640368400621922012-08-26T16:04:18.655-05:002012-08-26T16:04:18.655-05:00This is in answer to “Anonymous”, who wonders why ...This is in answer to “Anonymous”, who wonders why God had intended to destroy ALL the Israelites before Moses interceded, including those who had refrained from worshipping the golden calf.<br /><br />Many of them openly worshipped the golden calf and indulged in lustful revelry, while others passively watched. Why didn’t these watchers stand up against such brazen rejection of the true God? Were they perhaps tacitly in sympathy with the idolators? Even Aaron was taken in to a great extent, and he himself might very well have been disowned by the LORD had Moses not intervened.<br /><br />The LORD knows each one of us through and through, even better than we know ourselves. Were those passive Israelites really innocent? Even before the golden calf incident, God had put up with their endless grumbling and their forgetfulness of His awesome interventions on their behalf.<br /><br />Now, look ahead to the time when these same people were approaching the promised land, in Numbers 14, verse 22-23 where the LORD declares: “Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it…” Verse 29: “Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me…” <br /><br />There they were, finally at the edge of the promised land; yet the LORD, because of their attitude, now sentenced them to wander forty years in the wilderness where all of the older generation would die except for Joshua and Caleb. Verse 35: “I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation…” These people had been storing up a great mass of unrepentant sin and ingratitude from the time they left Egypt until they reached the promised land. They had never truly trusted in the LORD. These were the people who had REFRAINED from open worship of the golden calf, and yet God called them “evil”.<br /><br />“Anonymous”, I personally trust in all His judgments against mankind. How about you? Who else besides God knows each soul inside and out? His judgments are always righteous.<br /><br />In Christ,<br /><br />MelanieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-13271450172091085442012-08-25T13:35:40.106-05:002012-08-25T13:35:40.106-05:00Perhaps Moses was even too soft hearted towards ot...Perhaps Moses was even too soft hearted towards other Jews/members of his flock/members of his congregatoin. Isn't his passion over his bretheren what caused him to kill the Egyptian? He was so in love with his people that they were literally driving him crazy and making him beg God not to have to lead them any more. Sometimes it is good to have distance between what you do and what those around you are doing. You don't want to join in with Babylon the Great and be partakers of her sins. I think that is what happens when peopel just blindly join a church using Christ's name, no matter what spirtual fornication they see inside.<br /><br />Moses was a good guy but not perfect. We see alot of his faults in his story also. Miriam did get what she deserved. If Moses wasn't so worried about protecting her, he woudlnt' have gotten upset when she woudln't obey God.<br /><br />Everyone has to live their own life in the end. Those who you choose to listen to and associate with and follow will affect how you turn out yourself.Barbaranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-45387992194234793192012-08-25T12:59:26.503-05:002012-08-25T12:59:26.503-05:00Ok, how can this be explained:
God is just.
He ju...Ok, how can this be explained:<br /><br />God is just.<br />He judges us as individuals, according to the sins we ourselves have committed.<br />Among the Israelites, some remained faithful while others worshiped the idol.<br />God in His wrath FIRST intended to destroy ALL of them - but in response to Moses' intercession, relented, and judged only those who had worshiped the idol.<br /><br />??? God originally meant to wipe them all out, even the faithful ones??? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com