“You ignored the Rock who fathered you,
you forgot God, who gave you birth.”
-Deuteronomy 32:18
Verse 18 accuses Israel of one of the most horrible sins one could commit: to forsake and forget the one who gave them life.
We’re told it was the rock who created them, nurtured them and brought them into the Promised Land.
In other words, it is Hashem who is both the father and the mother of Israel.
The Lord here is accusing Israel of forgetting who their real parents are and giving credit for their existence to other false gods or powers.
And on top of all the other abominations Israel has committed, they’re also being accused of breaking the 4th Commandment to honor one’s father and mother who from a spiritual perspective is Hashem!
And do you recall what the penalty is for disobeying one’s parents?
“And he that strikes his father,
or his mother,
shall be surely put to death.”
-Exodus 21:15
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. And they shall say to the elders of his city. ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.”-Deuteronomy 21:18-21
The penalty for refusing to heed the voice of one’s parents is death.
This section of the Song of Moses starts off with the most horrifying of implications.
It speaks of a saved people who have made the dreadful decision to walk away from their Savior.
And as a result, they would be turned over to evil.
That’s right and let me put it clearly so there’s no misunderstanding.
These verses are talking about a saved people who are walking away from their salvation.
What happened was while being in a saved state they decided it was okay to share themselves with those vey abominations the Lord had forbidden.
They had brought themselves into union with evil and unclean things.
Honestly, under such circumstances do you really think God would remain in union with Israel?
It’s like a man who expects his wife to stay with him while he’s sleeping around with whores behind her back.
Take a look at the Christian world.
How many believers walk down that aisle, pray the prayer of salvation, call on the name of the Jewish messiah and then go right back into the world living as they always have somehow assuming that God is just gonna wink and look the other way.
These chilling words from the Messiah stand as a sure judgement against them for all eternity.
“On that Day, many will say to me,
‘Lord, Lord!
Didn’t we prophesy in your name?
Didn’t we expel demons in your name?
Didn’t we perform many miracles
in your name?’
Then I will tell them to their faces,
‘I never knew you!
Get away from me,
you workers of lawlessness!“
-Matthew 7:22-23
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