It took me nearly 20 minutes to read this passage. Each chapter speaks of the humility and reverence of those Jewish worshipers. They had seen the fulfillment of God’s promise to punish Israel, but also to restore them. They had learned the truth that the prophets spoke to their fathers and they sought God’s gracious favor. Chapter 9 is a powerful confession of the sins of Israel. To say such things would be to humiliate themselves before God, and to take ownership of the sins their fathers had committed. In confessing them, they were recommitting themselves to be under God’s authority. We, in the American church should be doing the same thing; confessing the sins of our “fathers” in the church but also the leaders of this land.
Stuart
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