Just as it is written, God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear.
To this very day,
And David said, Let their table become a snare, and their trap a stumbling block, and a recompense to them. Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see and bow down their back always. You remember what I said to you at the beginning of the last period? Text like this trouble a lot of people.
They read light and
God didn’t want to save them.
He didn’t want them to believe. That’s not how the text to be read. It’s not the context from which they’ve been that Paul is quoting. There, David in verse ten, nine and ten, is speaking of a people bent on evil. And he responds to their evil being.
bentedness and he says to God, let their backs be bowed down. This was a lover of Israel talking like this.
What does he say? He’s angry about their faithlessness. He had his own problems, mark you. You know that very well. But in the middle of all of his wickedness, this was this fella would not walk away from God. If God would have him, he wouldn’t go to any other God one way or another. And when he sees his own people following the ways of evil.
Setting up gods and doing all these wicked things and bent on offending God, undermining, or at least working to undermine his purposes. He speaks of them and says to God, this is what they deserve. This is what they should get. Okay, we’re not always sure whether he’s just speaking at a bad temper. The likelihood
That there’s some of that in there. But he’s nevertheless speaking about a people who do not want to submit to God. And he wants God to render judgment on them. He’s not the only one that does this. Jeremiah will say, Don’t forgive them.
Of course a lot of the time Jeremiah said something else. He said, ⁓ God, these people are having a tough time and all. He says all that kind of thing. And then when they really brutalize him and and they’re mocking him and they’re doing all that stuff in his bad temper, he says, Don’t forgive them. Bury them.
It doesn’t matter that Jeremiah or David or anybody else is feeling this. The one thing we’re sure of is they’re mad about something they see, something they hear, something they’re living in the middle of, something they are suffering from. Their protest, they’re wanting God to render judgment on the people.
tells you who and what the people are that they’re talking about.
And these writers don’t want God to let that go by. They want God to judge them.