Daily verse and quote Posted December 5, 2021 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 1,190 Topics Per Day: 0.68 Content Count: 1,742 Content Per Day: 1.00 Reputation: 1,316 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/13/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted December 5, 2021 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19 Don't let your past determine your destiny. Confucius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hands On Posted December 5, 2021 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 227 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 126 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/13/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted December 5, 2021 Regarding these two verses Thomas Constable explains as follows "43:18 Obviously God did not want His people to forget what He had done for them in the Exodus, but neither did He want them to look back on that event and conclude that it was His only act of redemption or the only method He could use to redeem them. The Exodus exemplified God's ability, but it did not set a pattern that He had to follow thereafter (cf. Jer. 23:7-8). 43:19-20 God was going to do a new thing for Israel, something that would appear unexpectedly, like a sprout from barren soil. The Israelites would become aware of it even though they had no knowledge of it at that time. He would do for the captives in Babylon what He had done for their ancestors in Egypt, namely, make a highway for them through the wilderness and provide them with water (cf. Exod. 17). Instead of turning a sea into dry land, He would turn the dry land into waterways (cf. 35:6-7). These images picture a second Exodus. Even the animals would acknowledge God's greatness as they observed His acts and benefited from His goodness to His people. "Here we see the acts of God bringing the whole world into harmony, a feature which will be perfected in the Messianic day (11:6-9[; 65:25]). Here, the journeying people are met by a transformed world (19cd) into which the animal creation gladly enters with benefit." One writer took the water as symbolic of God's sustaining provision for the Jews, and the animals as figures representing Gentile nations that will benefit from the witness of the restored Jews"(Constable "Notes on Isaiah" 2014 soniclight.org) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daily verse and quote Posted December 5, 2021 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 1,190 Topics Per Day: 0.68 Content Count: 1,742 Content Per Day: 1.00 Reputation: 1,316 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/13/2019 Status: Offline Author Share Posted December 5, 2021 Thank you for sharing what Thomas Constable said. Very informative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted December 5, 2021 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,991 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,689 Content Per Day: 11.80 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted December 5, 2021 We can't forget the past as humans but we should not dwell on the past and only focus on the now. We have become new creations in Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daily verse and quote Posted December 5, 2021 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 1,190 Topics Per Day: 0.68 Content Count: 1,742 Content Per Day: 1.00 Reputation: 1,316 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/13/2019 Status: Offline Author Share Posted December 5, 2021 "For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that can't perish—by the living and everlasting word of God." 1 Peter 1:23 (ISV) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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