SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/6/2016 9:42 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 The Day of the Lord and the
Gentiles
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zephaniah 2:8-11
Message of the verses: “8 "I have heard the taunting of Moab
And the revilings of the sons of Ammon, With which they have taunted My people
And become arrogant against their territory. 9
"Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, The God of
Israel, "Surely Moab will be like Sodom And the sons of Ammon like
Gomorrah-A place possessed by nettles and salt pits, And a perpetual
desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them And the remainder of My
nation will inherit them." 10 This they will have in return for their
pride, because they have
taunted and become arrogant against the people of the LORD of hosts. 11
The LORD will be terrifying to them, for He will starve all the gods of the
earth; and all the
coastlands of the nations will bow down to Him, everyone from his own place.”
Now as we
go through our commentary on these verses take note that in his outline about
this section Warren Wiersbe entitles this sub-section: “Moab and Ammon,” as the judgment from the
Lord comes on these two nations.
I have
mentioned the origins of these two nations in earlier SD’s but I believe
because of the importance of it we will go over it again. In the book of Genesis chapter 19:30-38 we
see the beginnings of these two nations and the word that is used for how they
began in today’s language would be incestuous as Lot’s two daughters got their
father drunk and slept with him, one, one night, and another the next
night. After listening to Ken Ham and
what he has to say about cases like this I have learned that incest is a rather
new word. I once had a pastor who told
us in the morning service that he was going to tell us where Cain got his wife
from in the evening service. His answer
was that Cain got his wife from his father-in-law. When God made man on the last day of creation
and later formed Eve from Adam’s rib they were perfect and remained that way
until they sinned. God told them that
they would die if they ate of the fruit of the tree of good and evil, and
immediately they died spiritually and later on died physically. Adam lived over 900 years and he and Eve were
the parents of all who live today on planet earth. Ken Ham says in the message that I listened
from him that we are all relatives who live on planet earth and so when we
marry someone we are marrying a relative, now a far off relative, but none the
less a relative, so because the gene pool of people closer to Adam and Eve was
much better than now there was no problem physically for Lot to have children
with his daughters, now spiritually this is a different issue.
Warren
Wiersbe says that “these two arrogant nations would end up like Sodom and
Gomorrah, wiped off the face of the earth (Gen. 19; note the connection here
with Lot). Now more would they insult
either the nation of Israel or the God of Israel. (See Amos 1:13-2:3 for further evidence of
the wickedness and inhumanity of these two nations.) Once again, the prophet promised that the
Jews would occupy the land of their enemies when the kingdom is established
(see also Ezek. 30:4-5).” I do find it
ironic that the prophet mentions both Sodom and Gomorrah on how these two
nations would be judged, when it was Lot who was forced to leave Sodom right
before God destroyed it, and it was probably because of the immorality that was
found there that his daughters had little problem in doing what they did.
3/6/2016 10:02 PM
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