Ron Bailey - Part 6

Moreover, the Buddha-Lord came to me saying, Go cry for the healing of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says God, I remember you. Yes, I remember you. Jeremiah was a fast 600 BC. Sinai was brought in about 1300 BC. 700 years ago, God was referring to. And he says to the people of Israel, I remember you. I remember you. Listen to a broken clock of gold. I remember you. The calmness of your youth. The love of your children. When you went after Jesus, in the wilderness, in a land of what must serve. Israel was colonized at the moment. And the first fruits of his increase. I remember you, he says to God. I remember you when you went after me. Not just for the promised land that you would get as a result of following me. But when you went after me. There's a phrase we use in English. We talk about covered love. Covered love is when you love someone for what you can get out of. Israel, at this point in their life, were not loving God for what they could get out of. You went after me, he said. Now if you remember the history, my memory is quite fixed on it. I can remember the people of Israel being like this. I can remember moaning constantly. I can remember sinning constantly. Disobeying God. I can remember all that. But there's a point in time in the story of Israel when God effectively restored the covenant to them. Moses had broken the covenant by the covenant law. But they had broken by their sin and effectively tore up the legal document. But God said, get me two tablets of stone. So he writes it down again and he comes back. And then something happens. He says, forgive me. And if not, then drop me out. He says, if possible, do it this way. And God says, effectively, it's not possible to do that with you, Moses. There's another media to later on. Do you follow that? There's another media to later on who will not take my lifetime. Let me pay the price for this. But for Moses, God recommissioned Moses. He recommissioned the people of Israel. And then for a period of a whole year, they spent a whole year preparing a crusade. That's an old language word. This is all of their freedom, period. You never know what they were called, Jewish young men. They weren't supposed to engage in any business that took them away from their house. They weren't supposed to go away for war, for a whole year. They were supposed to stay at home and cheer up the wife. But what it means is that they were able to give themselves to one another, without any other distraction, for a whole year. And actually, for a whole year, Israel, that had sinned and broken God's heart, was restored. And for a whole year, they gave themselves to God. And they built the Temple. And they began to take this offering. And every morning, they brought that. And every day, they put another lot. And every day, they put another lot. And Moses would kind of distribute it to the people who were building different parts of the Temple. And in the end, they came back to Moses and said, Stop! It is a unique financial appeal.