Let's Get Real - Scripture Day 353
March 17, 2016
Sometimes when we disobey God, it can take a while before we see the results of that disobedience...
"Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out."
Joshua 17:12-13 ESV
RANDY: God had commanded the Israelites to drive out all the people in the promised land. Instead, they decided it would be somehow better to force the Canaanites to work for them rather than drive them out.
So basically you have a society that has just been freed from slavery, now taking slaves, something God had forbidden them to do.
Just because an action by Israel is recorded in the Bible, it does not mean God approves of the action. There is just no attempt to hide the ugly truth in scripture.
The disobedience of this generation led to excesses in the following one who the Bible records, "Did not know the Lord".
This eventually destroyed Israel.
What we do today, matters for the future, even if we don't see it right away...
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