CONNECTING THE DOTS 2

CONNECTING THE DOTS

LESSON #2: ON A HIGH-WAY TO EGYPT

There was a crisis. Judah the beloved Southern Kingdom and God’s own agent through whom He was to bring forth the Messiah of the world had rebelled. She had become haughty and incomprehensible. Her behavior was unreasonable and much more unacceptable before God. Yet even in this worrying and seemingly hope taking atmosphere God raised a Prophet. His name, Jeremiah!

God had a special mission for Jeremiah; to call back Judah to the sanctified way of God almighty.        

This story is among the most fearful accounts of Rebellion in the scriptures. The story of Judah’s harlotry comes out in clear view. God’s chosen people had forsaken the straight path to trade in the ways of idolatry and great insanity. The Holy City had exchanged life for death. Thus somebody had to blow the trumpet and show the “good old ways” to the stiff necked rebels.

By this time of Jeremiah “the Son of Hilkiah,…”, Judah had plunged herself in a pool of uncircumcised acts. The once admired of the Lord had forgotten her PAST. She had neglected the husband of her youth and gone after other men. “Neither did they say, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, through a land of drought and shadow of death, through a land that no one crossed and where no one dwelt.”- Jeremiah 2:6. Judah had erased from memory the goodness of the LORD.

From sinful Egypt to marvelous Canaan God faithfully lead and protected Israel. By a Pillar of cloud during day time and a pillar of fire in the night He lovingly attended her paths. The Almighty miraculously opened the Red Sea and she passed on dry. He gave her food baked in heaven’s own perfect ovens. He saved her from the fiery serpents in the wilderness. He gave her water out of the rock. He parted the Jordan for her children to go through and safely He delivered her to the promised land of Earthly Canaan. Yet what was her recompense to the LORD? “REBELLION!”....

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