A Sure Path to Destruction

Cause of Judgement

Consistency

Compassion

Comprehension

V. 2 Shows the legitimacy of the Lords complaints against Israel.

Cost of Judgement

Drought of a Nation

v.3 The sin of Yahweh’s people caused a famine and possible over fishing.

Documentation of the People

v. 4 The People were evidence of the corruption of the priest.

I Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Death in the Land

v.5 The death of the mother is a reference to an overthrow of her religious leadership. They suffered a loss of their religious liberties.

Cure from Judgement

Scholarly pursuit

V. 6 We should continually seek to know the Lord.

Search for God

v.7 The priest were rejected because they had profited in their duties and had forgotten God.

Satisfaction on Godly things

v.8 Because they enjoyed the taste of the sacrifice they longed for sin offerings. It is possible that both the priest and the people abused the sacrifice system for personal pleasure.

Romans 6:1,2 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?