The reference, then, to the wildernessjourney,
and the settlement of Canaan, is but an overture to the drama of redemption. It strikes at
the outset the two notes that dominate the body of the music and how fitting the interplay of both!
There was need of protesting as now, so then, against the easy hope that paradise could be restored
without reckoning with the angel and the flaming sword.
Jeremiah knew from his own experience
how every piece of hope and promise had to be fought for in penitence and prayer, snatched, as it
were, out of the fires of judgment.
On this day…
- Wiki – 2025
- Christian History – 2025
- Exodus 25 – 2024
- Exodus 24 – 2024
- April 19, 2014 – 2014
- THE INITIATIVE AGAINST DESPAIR – 2009
- Genesis 25:11 – 2009
- Mark 15:23 – 2008
- compeers – 2007
- Revelation 5:12 – 2007
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