SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/19/2016 6:26 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Hypocrisy
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Malachi 2:12-13
Message of the verses: “12 "As for the man who does this, may
the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who awakes and answers, or
who presents an offering to the LORD of hosts. 13 "This is another thing
you do: you cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and with
groaning, because He no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor
from your hand.”
In our last
SD we talked about men who had married heathen wives, something that was
against the Law of Moses. Some may think
that this is an odd law, but when you think of the ministry that God had given
to Israel then you should be able to understand what God had this in His
Law. When we look back at David’s life
and how through the work of the Lord conquered much of the Promised Land that
was to be given to Israel by God we see that these were perhaps the best days
of Israel’s history, and it even extended to the days of Solomon, but when you
look at the life of Solomon you see that after he had been in power for a while
that he began to marry wives from the kingdoms around Israel in order to keep
the peace with them. He married a wife
from Egypt, which I believe was the first foreign wife he married. I believe that this was not only sinful, but
I believe that God was upset with Solomon because Solomon was not putting his
trust in the Lord for protection, but in the nations around them. I believe that we in the United States are to
pray for our leaders, but have our faith in the Lord to care for us, and this
should be true of all nations, but sadly it is not. Once the children of Israel began this
practice as Solomon did their wives would bring their religious beliefs into
their bedroom where they could begin to break down their husbands so that they would
begin to worship foreign gods, and once the leaders did this then it would only
be a matter of time before the people would do it, which is what happened to
Israel when God brought them into captivity in Babylon. Israel did not learn their lesson and even
earlier we saw from the book of Ezra that he made the men give up their foreign
wives, and not it is happening again.
Dr. Wiersbe
concludes his commentary on this section by writing “In matters of ethics and
morals, there are many things in society that are legal but are not
biblical. Brides and grooms must
remember that God is an unseen witness at every wedding (Mal. 2:14), and He
also witnesses those who live together who aren’t married. One day there will come a terrible harvest
from the seeds being planted today by those who despise God’s laws and the
principles He has built into nature.” I
have to add an Amen to that quote.
11/19/2016 6:53 PM
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