Heather wrote:I read the kinsman redeemer article on free will earlier, and was wondering what you guys think about the scripture of sowing israel with the seed of man and beast. Is He saying He was going to make some of us commit suicide by mixing? Along that line, since God is ordering all of history, do you think He also orders who mates with whom? Recently coming to the exclusiveness of Israel (and struggling with it), I can't help but wonder if some ancestor 500 years ago was a perv, but have to trust that I'm ok without actually knowing.
I'm sure you have heard this before, and I searched as much as I could to see if the same had been asked.
I received an email recently asking the same question and this was my response.
Back to Jer. 31:27. Taken as an isolated verse it would sound as if God
were going to engage in a little miscegenation, which would contradict
His Law. My perspective on this is that God gives man the desires of
his heart; OK, if it's sin you want, I'll give you tons of it; shades of
those who got tired of the manna, remember? and they gorged themselves
with quail, which God provided. God proves the cause and effect of
obeying and disobeying His Law all the time. The stranger (racial
alien) was not to dwell in Israelite lands - Exodus 23:33; that was the
Law and the standard. I don't really see Jer. 31:27 as a blessing, but
rather the fulfillment of divine judgment. If you look at our own
recent history, in 1964, the government passed the Civil Rights Act and
our reward has been rampant race mixing and a negro president. It's been
man playing God and God has reciprocated by sowing good and evil; you
reap what you sow... right? However, that does not betray God's plan
for the ages whereby something else trumps what some may think is
sanctioned by God. Quite the contrary, the universalism sown by the
wicked (one could say sown by God as did Jeremiah, but it must be taken
in context with chapters 30 and 31 and Ezek. 18) will be overthrown,
which is enunciated in many places regarding the destruction of the seed
of beasts and their empires. It's pretty much the world as we see it
today! Mt. 15:13 is but one example that supports my premise and is in
harmony with the rest of Scripture, to wit, "Every plant, which my
heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up."
Regarding the illusion of free will, in my article the point was the sovereignty of God, not man, and therefore His plan for ages are predestined. God does not make us to sin, we do that all by ourselves. God foresaw the fall of man, but He did not cause it. The Bible is loaded with cause and effect for our edification so that eventually, we can only come to the conclusion that our lives must be in agreement with the Word, rather than the Word fitting into our worldviews. Just remember that history is His story.
Mark
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 5:06 pm