{"id":68484,"date":"2020-01-13T19:06:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T17:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=68484"},"modified":"2023-08-08T07:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T04:57:55","slug":"a-barrier-between-you-and-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-barrier-between-you-and-god\/","title":{"rendered":"A Barrier Between You And God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[395,941],"acf":{"old_id":"68484","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":65182,"related_cahpter":"393","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"\u201cInnocent blood\u201d and Manasseh\u2019s abominations\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most detailed description of the corruption of Manasseh\u2019s generation introduces the final chapter of the most gruesome prophetic sequence in the Bible (before the Book of Ezekiel). It includes \u201cinnocent blood\u201d (Is. 59:3, 7), robbery, violence, and false words: \u201cThey hatch vipers\u2019 eggs\u2026 whoever eats of their eggs dies\u201d (59:5).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of these constitute \u201cthe hiding of God\u2019s face\u201d that created a barrier between God and Judah:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut your iniquities have been a barrier between you and your God, your sins have made Him turn His face away and refuse to hear you\u201d (59:2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The groups of prophets and their disciples had to feel their way around in the darkness: \u201cLike those without eyes we grope; we stumble at noon, as if in darkness; among the sturdy, we are like the dead\u201d (59:10). They blindly hoped for salvation, but it \u201cis far from us\u201d (59:11). The bitter struggle of the prophet\u2019s disciples against the stable, cruel government of Manasseh, which lasted for fifty-five years (II Kings 21:1), bore ter\u00adrible prophecies of vengeance. God, seeing that \u201cthere is no one,\u201d will appear as a God of vengeance (Is. 59:15\u201318), for only then will fear of the Lord spread \u201cfrom west\u2026and from the east\u2026and a Redeemer will come to Zion\u201d (59:19\u201320).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prophet concludes by renewing the eternal covenant of redemption:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs for Me, this is My covenant with them, says the Lord, My spirit that is upon you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will never cease from your mouth or from the mouths of your descendants and the mouths of your descendants\u2019 descendants says the Lord, from now and forever\u201d (59:20\u201321).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Lau and Bin Nun, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isaiah: Prophet of Righteousness and Justice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Maggid Books, 2019), p. 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