DAILY TRUTH - “Nations That Forget God Will Be Turned Into Hell”
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God is good, but he is not always tolerant. God is slow to anger, but He is just, and eventually does pour out his fair, proportional wrath on all his enemies. This is the key to understanding God's character and character to this day and age.
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Hereby was typified the final and eternal destruction of all the impenitent,
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must forever feel the weight of his wrath.
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Nations that forget God shall be turned into hell.
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nations that forget God shall be turned into hell. The land is defiled. It is unclean and it turns
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against its own inhabitants, spewing them out. Nations that forget God shall be turned into hell
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and no reproach at all to God's infinite goodness. This doesn't mean that God's not kind or not good.
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It simply means that he is just and that he will not be mocked. We reap what we sow. What Matthew
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Henry is saying here in the final analysis is that our text, Joshua chapter 10, where Joshua
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and Israel annihilate all these Canaanite tribes, men, women, children, the whole nine yards,
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driving them out and putting them to death with the edge of the sword, is that in some sense,
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this is a typological text. That is, it's a symbol that points towards an eternal ultimate reality.
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And the ultimate reality of the Canaanites and the destruction that God brings upon them through
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Israel, that reality is the reality of eternal hell. That God is tolerant, but he is not eternally
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tolerant. He is not indefinitely tolerant. God is slow to anger. God is abundant in mercy, but God
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is just. And eventually he does pour out his just, that is fair, proportional wrath on all his
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enemies. He may wait for 400 years, but eventually he will do justice. And when he brings his justice
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for those who don't repent, for those who do not submit to him, when he brings his justice,
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it will be swift and it will be severe and it will be without an ounce of mercy.
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There was no mercy given to the Canaanites. Every man, woman, and child put to the edge of the sword
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asking for his forgiveness because of his life,
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Those who do not turn to him like the Canaanites,
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God will eventually deal out justice with his sword,
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his wrath in hell, and there will be no quarter. There will be no surrender. There will never be
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a peace treaty offered. They will be eternally punished. And this in no way detracts from God's
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goodness. If anything, it only exemplifies it. God is good. And because he's good, he punishes
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the wicked. It's an eternal principle. It's also a tangible, earthly, temporal principle.
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And these things from the Old Testament are massively relevant to this day.