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"No eye has seen
no ear has heard
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him."
I Cor 2 quoting Is 64.
It is in a chapter where the question of restoring Israel is hashed over again. How come, O Lord, you don't come down and obliterate your enemies.
The answer is that there is something new afoot and we find from I Cor 2 that the question being asked in Is 64 is missing out on the fact that God just might be planning to do something entirely new. The answer is in Christ and what took place in him. God was about to be "found by those who did not ask for him...etc.", 65:1, which meant believers from all nations. They would be people 'Israel did not know.' 63:16.
Paradoxically, this chapter includes asking this kind of question while 'Jerusalem was a desolation' AGAIN. Because the writers of the NT knew this was about to take place again, being mentioned steadily in Mt 21-24, or numerous places in Luke which is essentially transcription of Paul.
God would make a NHNE for his servants, while those smugs who assumed they were "in" but were not doing his service as the apostles called for, would be 'destined for the sword.' 65:12.
no ear has heard
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him."
I Cor 2 quoting Is 64.
It is in a chapter where the question of restoring Israel is hashed over again. How come, O Lord, you don't come down and obliterate your enemies.
The answer is that there is something new afoot and we find from I Cor 2 that the question being asked in Is 64 is missing out on the fact that God just might be planning to do something entirely new. The answer is in Christ and what took place in him. God was about to be "found by those who did not ask for him...etc.", 65:1, which meant believers from all nations. They would be people 'Israel did not know.' 63:16.
Paradoxically, this chapter includes asking this kind of question while 'Jerusalem was a desolation' AGAIN. Because the writers of the NT knew this was about to take place again, being mentioned steadily in Mt 21-24, or numerous places in Luke which is essentially transcription of Paul.
God would make a NHNE for his servants, while those smugs who assumed they were "in" but were not doing his service as the apostles called for, would be 'destined for the sword.' 65:12.