Until He Comes
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Introduction
Introduction
“Between Two Worlds” - What (Who) is the Bridge
It is a corporate lament given by a leader - i and we
It expresses the perplexity at God’s rejection and forgetting his people who are experiencing oppression of an enemy
1-8 God’s Blessing to his people because He delighted in them
1-3 Giving them the land
4-8 Commitment of Trust
9-22 The Contrast: Our present experience
9-16 We do not living in victory and it it is the Lord’s doing (you have)
17-22 We have not been “false to your covenant”
23-26 Call for God to Act
Recalling Our Lord’s Blessing of Deliverance 1-8
Recalling Our Lord’s Blessing of Deliverance 1-8
1-3 Hearing from the Fathers the conquest God gave them
1-3 Hearing from the Fathers the conquest God gave them
recalls the way God brought the people to the land
“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’ then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. And the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes. And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers. And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.’
“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
He delighted in them
4-8 Expression of Trust in the Lord who fight for them (present)
4-8 Expression of Trust in the Lord who fight for them (present)
This present trust is build upon in God’s past deliverance (1s & 1p)
Declarations of integrity that seem to indicate that there is no reason for God’s abandonment that they are experiencing
“ordains” MT or “who ordains” LXX
They are recipients of of the Past deliverance
It was God acting
As he did in Jericho
Sennacheribs’s Army
2Kings 19.5-7
When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 6 Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me. 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.’
5 - They can do if through God
7 - Basis is what God did
8- Doxology praising God
Rejection of Our Lord
Rejection of Our Lord
“But”- Rejected & disgraced - radically different picture
Rejected 9-12
Rejected 9-12
Military defeat
vs. 11 massacre and exile
27 And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.
36 For seven days you shall present food offerings to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.
12 - selling is a nefarious act
Disgraced 13-16
Disgraced 13-16
effect is disgrace
I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.
“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
Protest 17-22
Protest 17-22
“Based on the theology implicit in 44:1–8 and explicit in Deuteronomy 28:15 and 25, we would expect the second strophe in this stanza to contain a confession of sin. So we are shocked that the second strophe contains a most vigorous protestation of innocence. “All this has happened though we have not forgotten you. We have not violated your covenant” (44:17). And this loyalty was not merely external. It was a loyalty from the heart. In spite of such loyalty, God’s people had been “crushed” and “covered … with darkness and death” (44:19). The people admitted that God’s actions would be understandable had they turned from God to idols. But such had not been the case. The people were not claiming sinlessness but only basic loyalty (Mays 1994:178)—the same kind of loyalty demonstrated by their ancestors in the distant past and by themselves in the recent past. In some way they were not suffering because of their sin but for God’s sake. This profound perplexity did not lead to unbelief, however, but to prayer”
36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
Requesting God to Act
Requesting God to Act
Rin
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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.
Besides this evangelical character which unquestionably belongs to the Mosaic covenant, it is presented in two other aspects in the Word of God. First, it was a national covenant with the Hebrew people. In this view the parties were God and the people of Israel; the promise was national security and prosperity; the condition was the obedience of the people as a nation to the Mosaic law; and the mediator was Moses. In this aspect it was a legal covenant. It said, “Do this and live.