Therefore, Know That Jehovah Your God, He Is God, The Faithful God Who Keeps Covenant And Mercy With Them That Love Him And Keep His Commandments, To A Thousand Generations. And He Repays Those Who Hate Him To Their Face, To Destroy Them. He Will Not Be Slow To Repay Him Who Hates Him. He Will Repay Him To His Face.
Deu 7:9,10
Two characteristics of God are mentioned here. Jehovah is faithful to a thousand generations of those who keeps His covenant and mercy He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them.
Second characteristic of Jehovah, is emphasized, three times in verse no. 10.
Why should a person hate Jehovah?
Any child would naturally love his father and mother. He observes his parents doing everything for him, feeding him, clothing him, giving him bath, loving him, holding him in his hands, playing with him, wanting him to grow and always seek his welfare.
There is no chance of a child hating his father or mother until it grows and finds some serious faults with his parents.
Every human beings receive the gift of ‘life’ from God. Only God Jehovah has the power to give ‘life’ and take ‘life’ from a person. He has handed over this authority to Jesus Christ too.
No one takes it (life) from Me, but I lay it down from Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment from My Father.
Joh 10:18
How can a man hate the ‘giver of his life’? Of course he can not. But through a deception, he is not able to see his real father. His mind and heart is blindfolded. Just like a kidnapped child can’t recognize his father or mother, any human beings when they are born in this world, are in a kidnapped position.
2 Co 4:4 ‘……. the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on them.”
His blind eyes should be opened if he has to see his Creator and real Father. This can be done only through knowing the truth i.e. Word of God.
Those who come to know God Jehovah as their real Father, will start loving Him, obeying Him, and obey His commandments. God will show mercy to them for a thousand generations.
2.He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them.
He will repay him to his face.
All the destruction we see on the earth and in humanity can be traced out to this reason;
Hating God Jehovah’.
How can somebody hate God or express their hatred towards Jehovah? By not believing in Jesus.
The Father loves the Son (Jesus) and has given all things into His hand. He who believes on the Son (Jesus) has everlasting life, and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.
Joh 3:35,36
Not believing in Jesus is nothing but hating God Jehovah. God’s wrath will come upon those who do not believe in Jesus.
And today’s verse says, God repays those who hate Him, to their face, to destroy them.
The ultimatum of destruction for an earthly man, is killing and taking away life; But in Bible, it is more than that. They undergo a second death too. Second death is
Rev 21:8 But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Second death is casting a person after his death, into eternal hell.
Hell is a place explained by Jesus as a lake of fire and brimstone (Rev. 20:10,15) where there is tormenting by fire (Rev 14:10-11) everlasting burning, darkness, worms, weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 8:12, 22:13, 25:30, Lk 13:28, Mk 9:44,46,48, Is 33:14
Luk 12:5 But I will warn you of whom you shall fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear Him.
While I was writing this, a kind of fear, no, terror came to me.
Can we take a count of the people in our Constituency, those who are doomed to hell without knowing Jesus? Don’t you think they should at least be given a chance to make a choice?
Sol. Ann Rose AOJ
