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63 And it shall be, that just as the Lord arejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord bwill rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be cplucked from off the land which you go to possess.  
64 “Then the Lord awill scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and bthere you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone.  
65 And aamong those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; bbut there the Lord will give you a1 trembling heart, failing eyes, and canguish of soul.  
66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life.
67 aIn the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and bbecause of the sight which your eyes see.  
68 “And the Lord awill take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, b‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.” 
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Deuteronomy 28:62-68

That is low—not even good enough to be sold as slaves. This is how far God is willing to go to make the lessons of exile sink in. Because of sin, He has to do this as punishment. He has to separate us away from Him for a time. The purpose is to get us to repent, to bring us back to Him in the end. If this is what it takes, He is willing to do it.

It is very ironic that He says that He would rejoice in bringing Israel—or the church in type—low. This is not a fiendish type of joy in which a person gets his jollies out of making others hurt. God will rejoice because He can see the end and know that at least another step in His plan has been accomplished. He will put His whole heart into it to make sure that we come out of it as His people—in far better shape—on the other end.

Richard T. Ritenbaugh
How to Survive Exile

Related Topics: Bondage to Sin | Exile | God's Humbling of Israel | God's Punishment | God's Separation | Israel as Offscouring of Earth | Outcasts | Scattering of Israel | Slavery to Sin | Trials, Purpose of | Trials, Shaping Power Of


 
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