renniks
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Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,He not only brought about the events that led Israel to rebel, without participating in their sin, but he also had control over their response to the warnings preached by the prophets:
"Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.” - Isaiah 6:10
God refused to allow them to be healed, as said above. He made them remain in the same stubborn, rebellious disposition, but for how long?
"Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste, and the LORD removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled.” - Isaiah 6:11-13
God was behind the scenes, working out all these things. However, God is not responsible for the evil in their hearts, nor their actions.
judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What more could have been done for my vineyard
than I have done for it?
When I looked for good grapes,
why did it yield only bad?
5 Now I will tell you
what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
and it will be destroyed;I
and it will be trampled.
6 I will make it a wasteland...
Funny, God says he did all he could to have good fruit from his people. Only after this, did he judge them. Did God cause them to do wrong, then punish them for it? Not according to him.
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