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2022.11.5
(왕하17:7-23)
7 All this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods 8 and followed the practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced. 9 The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city they built themselves high places in all their towns. 10 They set up sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree. 11 At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the LORD to anger. 12 They worshiped idols, though the LORD had said, "You shall not do this." 13 The LORD warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and seers: "Turn from your evil ways. Observe my commands and decrees, in accordance with the entire Law that I commanded your fathers to obey and that I delivered to you through my servants the prophets." 14 But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their fathers, who did not trust in the LORD their God. 15 They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their fathers and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the LORD had ordered them, "Do not do as they do," and they did the things the LORD had forbidden them to do. 16 They forsook all the commands of the LORD their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal. 17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sorcery and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, provoking him to anger. 18 So the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left, 19 and even Judah did not keep the commands of the LORD their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced. 20 Therefore the LORD rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers, until he thrust them from his presence. 21 When he tore Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat their king. Jeroboam enticed Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin. 22 The Israelites persisted in all the sins of Jeroboam and did not turn away from them 23 until the LORD removed them from his presence, as he had warned through all his servants the prophets. So the people of Israel were taken from their homeland into exile in Assyria, and they are still there.
오늘의 말씀을 읽으면서는 주욱
왜 북이스라엘은 멸망했어야 했으며
앗수르의 살만에셀과 사르곤은 그들을 앗수르 지역으로 민족이동을 시켜야 했는가에 대한
하나님의 답을 말씀하시는 것 같았다
그것은 바로 우상숭배(偶像崇拜)
하나님의 명법규(命法規) 외면죄(外面罪)
하나님 주신 땅 전역(全域)을 숭배행위를 위한 시설화(施設化)
자기 자녀를 몰록의 제물로 바쳐 타죽게하는 패륜(悖倫) 잔인죄(殘忍罪)
하나님은 당신의 종 선지자(先知者) 선견자(先見者)를 보내
끊임없이 회개회개(悔改回改)할 것을 종용(慫慂)하였으나
그들에 대한 환대(歡待)는커녕
도리어 핍박(逼迫) 조롱(嘲弄) 심지어 죽이기까지 하니...
결국 더러운 쓰레기들을 치우듯
이방민족에 의해 민족대이동(民族大移動)을 구상
실제 역사의 기록으로 남도록 하셨다는
하나님의 말씀
이런 생각과 함께
작금의 현존진행중(現存進行中)인 지금의 상황(狀況)이
내 뇌리(腦裏)에 흘러 들어옴을 느꼈다
그저 대상(對象)만 다를 뿐 동일(同一)한 상황전개(狀況展開)...
그렇다면 이후에 펼쳐질 일들...
그러니까 하나님의 예상되는 조치...
성경속의 남유다 북 이스라엘은 샘플에 불과
이제는 그 현실이 지구촌적(地球村的)이기 까닭에...
하나님은 매 시대마다 선지자(先知者) 사도(使徒) 목사(牧師) 교사(敎師) ...등등을 두셨지만
그들이 세상을 바꾸지 못했음
시대의 종말을 위해
아무런 역할을 하지 못했음이 생각의 수면위에 떠오름을 느낀다
그렇다면 나는...
나라는 존재는 지금 어찌해야 할까...???
나는 그들과 비교불허(比較不許)의 허당(虛堂)
진인사대신명(盡人事待神命)이야 말로 나의 최선(最善)이 아닐까... 마음의 결론을 얻는다
그래도 나를 택하시고 부르시고 의롭다 하시고
영화로운 위치 목사가 되게 하셨고
51년동안 그 안에 31년동안 그 자리를 이탈하지 않게 하신 하나님은
다 계획이 있을 것으로 믿으니... 기다림의 필요성이 느낌으로 밀려온다
그래...
기다려야지...
그럼
기다려야지...
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