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Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

 

 

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The Bedside Watchman

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February 1st -- Exodus 4

THE SPIRIT OF DEEP SLEEP


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HOW often do we find that punishment corresponds in its form to that mode of life which man has chosen. Because the early Christians did not receive the love of the truth, God sent them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie (2 Thessalonians 2:10,11). Israel had such an obsession for their own mode of attaining to righteousness that God shut them up to their own folly. They might have known, for their own prophets had warned them of the danger. Paul combines two of the predictions of the prophets in verse 8: "According as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, unto this day." The words are taken from Deuteronomy 29:4 and Isaiah 29:9,10. The first of these passages is from the "Song of Witness", from which Paul, in ch. 10, has so well demonstrated that righteousness is by faith. The second describes an intoxication which is not of wine but of false doctrine. God had poured out upon them the spirit of deep sleep, and the word of God was not opened and read. The principle involved is not without its warning for the latterday custodians of the Truth.

JOHN CARTER, Paul's Letter to the Romans, page 109

 


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