Hosea 4:6
God is serious! The penalty for rejecting God's teaching, for not learning, is that we will be barred from becoming priests, the Christian's promised vocation if he enters the Kingdom of God (see Revelation 5:10).
God says something similar in Leviticus 26:23-24: "If after all of this punishment you still do not listen to me, but continue to defy me, then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before" (Today's English Version). The key phrase here is "if you still do not listen to me." We must not fail to heed God.
Related Topics: God's Punishment
| Kings and Priests
| Rejecting God
| Rejection of God
| Teachability
| Yielding to God
| Yielding to God's Will
God is serious! The penalty for rejecting His teaching is being barred from becoming priests, the Christian's promised vocation in the Kingdom of God (Revelation 5:10). Leviticus 26:23-24 similarly warns of sevenfold punishment for those who "still do not listen"; God must be heeded. The Hebrew word for "people," amam, comes from a root carrying the idea of "hidden" or "concealed," spelled with a double mem, one open and one closed. God's people are those intimate with His revealed and hidden knowledge, yet they are destroyed for "lack," balaa, meaning "a wearing down" or "a gradual withdrawal." "Knowledge" derives from yada, rooted in intimacy. Though His people possess His revealed and hidden knowledge, they are destroyed because they lack intimacy with Him.