Over at PJ’s site she has asked a very interesting question. One that I have asked myself in times past when it came to the whole ‘Toronto – Pensacola – Brownsville” moves within the Church.
Can something that is so divisive be a tool that God is using to clean up His House? God after all wants a pure bride doesn’t He? What is God’s plan for the wife that has acted like a whore?
If a man put away his wife – It was ever understood, by the law and practice of the country, that if a woman were divorced by her husband, and became the wife of another man, the first husband could never take her again. Now Israel had been married unto the Lord; joined in solemn covenant to him to worship and serve him only. Israel turned from following him, and became idolatrous. On this ground, considering idolatry as a spiritual whoredom, and the precept and practice of the law to illustrate this case, Israel could never more be restored to the Divine favor: but God, this first husband, in the plenitude of his mercy, is willing to receive this adulterous spouse, if she will abandon her idolatries and return unto him. And this and the following chapters are spent in affectionate remonstrances and loving exhortations addressed to these sinful people, to make them sensible of their own sin, and God’s tender mercy in offering to receive them again into favor. [Adam Clarke]
Jer 3:1-13″If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD. Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom. Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed. Have you not just now called to me, ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth– will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.”
The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore? And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore. Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree. Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the LORD.” And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, “‘Return, faithless Israel, declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the LORD; I will not be angry forever. Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the LORD.
Chapter 4 resumes the subject of chapters 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto the Lord Himself-that neither forms nor half-measures would be of any use. [John Darby]
Jer 4:1-2 “If you return, O Israel, declares the LORD, to me you should return. If you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waver, and if you swear, ‘As the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”
Has ‘Lakeland’ been a Good Thing?
Posted on July 12, 2008 by pjmiller
Do you believe it has been beneficial in any way?
Just a small musing on my part: I’m beginning to believe it has been a ‘good thing’ in that the happenings have been (and are continuing to be) discussed among Christians: especially by those who like myself, still believe in the Gifts of the Spirit and true Spiritual manifestations from God. The focus upon Lakeland, Todd Bentley, and this ‘impartation’ is something which I believe God is using. Do you? Or do you think only bad is coming from this. I’d love to hear your opinion…
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A worthy and thought provoking topic in light of today’s Church.
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An important youtube about how the Lakeland revival. I think that through this there are those of us who are calling for a real revival and repentant heart…
Andrew Strom speaks about the Lakeland revival
Thank you for highlighting this, sister. It is indeed thought-provoking and we do need to look at this from this angle.