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The idea here is that they were continually breaking God’s commandments.

Sometimes when we are disobedient and we don’t hear anything from God, we may assume that He
doesn’t care or maybe didn’t notice.

V. 6-7 Don’t mistake His silence for His indifference. He won’t stay silent, and He will repay. Our
iniquities did not go unnoticed.

V. 8 This is reminiscent of Abraham’s plea for Sodom…if You find 40/30/10/5 righteous men will You still
destroy it?

The idea here is that there is a cluster of grapes, unproductive, but somewhere amid that cluster there
are one or two good grapes.

This is the idea once again of saving the remnant. That is one of God’s promises to His people, Israel.

V. 9-10 For the remnant, God will produce descendants, among whom will be Jesus Christ.

Sharon, on the west coast, and Achor on the eastern border, represents the entire nation of Israel…from
New York to Los Angeles. The inheritance is for those who have sought Him.

Now we turn to those who reject Him.

V. 11-12 These people have forgotten God on the Holy Mountain handing down the 10
Commandments. Instead, they prepare a table, not for God, but for a false god, these two in particular:
Gad and Meni.

Because of their forsaking of the Lord, they will be slaughtered, perhaps not in this world…

It’s not like He hadn’t tried. He called but they didn’t answer. He spoke but they didn’t hear.

V. 13-14 The contrasting outcomes for those who serve God and those who not only reject Him, but in
fact become His enemies.

They will eat but still be hungry, drink but still be thirsty. Not necessarily literally, but they will seek
satisfaction and not find it.

Those who serve God will rejoice shall sing for joy, but those who reject will find shame and wail with
grief.

V. 15-16 Continuing the same thought: curses for those who reject, blessings for those who accept.

This next section contrasts in some areas with the account of the New Heaven and the New Earth in
Revelation.

V. 17 The word ‘create’ here is the same word used in Genesis 1, to create something out of nothing. In
this new creation, the former things: sorrow, pain, tears, for example, will not be remembered.

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