The Jealously
Have we not all one father? Hath not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Malachis Prophecy 2:10-12
Have we not entered into a mystery of as seen here in the text. Remember before how that Hoseas marrying Gomer was a picture of this. Gomer was a wife who loved to wander from her husband and family at will. How like some of us she is oh so prone to wander from our God. I am hardly calling the Lord a jealous husband but of course. He does get jealous for his people, does not he? Nor is it the sort of jealousy this world gets that feels that your rightful place has been taken away.
Some people think too that jealousy is something borne forth from success. Just know this though that our God is for you whether you are with him or no. Wherever you wander, no matter how far away from home it has become, is he not already there. It is almost like that sort of jealousy that never wishes any harm to come to his people. It is that sort of thing that will guard them ever so carefully from danger, whether to others or even that of themselves.
So too will the Lord safeguard from danger, whether physical, spiritual, or otherwise. After all, is he not the best guard over our hearts and minds that I know.
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
Regardless of all that, there remains a separate issue, that of the people
departing him having chased after strange gods. You know of what sort I am talking about. These gods neither see, nor hear, nor are able to move about being made from the same material as their creator himself, one of mere
men. So, it stands to reason then that none of these are able to help in time of need. Still our God remains, a very present help as in Book of Psalms 46:1 in times of trouble, waiting still in the same place we left him behind. That is like the issue faced here in the text.
God, we see, is the one our forefathers served and the ones before that. In fact, even before Abraham was, our God called into being. It could be said then that he was our very first Father and Creator of man. It is not for
nothing that we call him I AM, who was, and is, and is to come as The Revelation of Jesus Christ 1:8 then has said. Then again, the story does not just stop with that there. It winds round the ages of man and ends up with our God reigns. Too, there is some brothers keeper, like the story of Cain and Abel, to be seen here in the text. You know, so often when you do something it does not just affect you. It spills over throughout the whole house.
The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.
Then at the last, you were sitting there with your head in your hands sick and tired of praying to idols, wondering where it ever went wrong. This is the abomination that has been committed then of leaving off to follow the Lord in spite of all else. So too, it is a fearful thing to sin against love. Judah did so knowingly, so much so that it hurt. God in his mercy and grace though will not let us alone. When it comes to the impending strange nuptials, our God has something to say. For all our having forsaken him, God himself seems strange and far away.
The Fathers house also with it appears as some long distant mirage. Come now, the Lord says of Isaiahs Vision 1:18 and let us reason together. Man might have many reasons for doing this thing. The Lord has only one though that of himself. He alone belongs in his rightful position, high and lifted up where the train of his glory fills the whole throne. There is room for no other
inside. It is not just for no reason then that he comes attacking his house. His house would not be empty and wasted, not for a moment, though ever so long. It seems that here as in Hosea, there is something to be seen between God and his people. So then, let us do right by his people as we were trusting wholly in the Father of love.