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Last week I talked about Covenants:
Adam
Noah
Abraham
Moses
David
New Covenant
This morning I want to talk about Judgment… or more specifically, New Creation after Judgment
As the Lord establishes these covenants with these key leaders, the Lord is making the covenants with Israel.
Through the covenants we see two things over and over again:
Israel and Israel’s leaders are people of God’s great promises.
2. Israel and Israel’s leaders are also a part of the world’s massive problem.
Adam and Eve’s sin in the Garden
Noah — drunkenness and immodesty
Abraham — interacting with his wife as his sister
The sibling rivalry all through Genesis
Moses — a murder
David — a murder and adulter
All of the the recipients of great covenants with and promises from God on behalf of Israel… and all of them deeply flawed and a part of the problem at hand.
In the divine economy or structure of the Bible, when God’s commands are not obeyed — either by direct knowledge of a command or by ignorance of God’s commands — justice is required.
Fairness and Justice
22 Notice how God is both kind and severe.
He is severe toward those who disobeyed, but kind to you if you continue to trust in his kindness.
But if you stop trusting, you also will be cut off.
As you read the Bible — if you read the Bible — you will have the opportunity to read some judgments from God that are confusing, troubling, harsh, extreme… the judgments of the Lord are just.
Fair?
Often, no.
But just?
Yes.
As for the Israelites, the Judgements of the Lord should not have caught them by surprise.
Judgement is usually surprising, even with warnings.
And warnings were items God granted then and grants now.
Here is another warning:
Deut 29:19-
Here we find Moses prophesying in Deuteronomy the coming of the Exile centuries later.
Do you know how the Exile was even a possibility for the Babylonians?
The answer to this question is actually as extraordinary of a demonstration of God’s justice and judgment as anything we find in the Old Testament.
ezek 10.
How was it possible for the Babylonians to overthrow Jerusalem and destroy the Temple?
Because the Lord left the Temple and left town.
The Lord said to his people who were bent on idolatry, “If it is idols you want, then idols you shall have.”
And Jerusalem and the Temple were raised to the ground.
And the people were put into exile.
Judgment.
But this act of judgement on God’s people thru the exile was not the greatest step of judgment we find in the Scriptures.
Neither is the flood.
Nor anything in Judges nor either of the Kings.
All of the judgments and acts of justice on God’s part in the Old Testament were only shadow for God’s greatest, most costly, most scandalous, and most glorious act of judgment in all of history.
Recap Jesus leading to his passion.
God’s greatest act of judgment was poured out on his son — crushed, bruised, judged for the sin of the world for all time, past present and future.
Exiled on the Cross for the sins of all time.
It is God’s judgement poured out on God’s only begotten son that gives clarity to all other judgments from God — that God is kind and severe… loving and just...
Of course, God’s judgments that lead to exile are always in the Bible the door to salvation.
By , the dry bones have been raised to life and the Israelites are called to an exodus home… and a second Temple is built… and in Ezekiel, the glory of the Lord returns to the Temple...
And the very last verse of tells us that as God re-establishes God’s presence in the Temple in Jerusalem and calls God’s people home, the Lord offers this name for God’s-self: The Lord is there.
Jesus is God with us… judged for our sin and now offers a way for us to make peace with God.
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