Reading
SAA Notes
This chapter reveals the path that pride and arrogance lead us on, and the woe that they bring. The final verse brings just a ray of hope and light. God’s grace is the ray of light. Moab’s redemption is beyond Moab’s power to achieve – they are destroyed. It is not beyond God’s! Hallelujah!
SJA Notes
* Dear Lord God, thank You for today! Please show us what You want for us to know from Your word today.
“Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he magnified himself against the LORD.”
This is a long and winding passage. One that can be hard to read and wrap our heads around.
This passage tells of the terrible judgement upon the people of Moab.
The Moabites had their origins through Lord, Abraham’s nephew.
They were mostly enemies of God and His people.
We read in Deuteronomy 23,
“No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD.”
The Moabites were a thorn in the side of Israel for generation after generation.
And yet.
God’s word often gives us truths that we need to hold in tension with each other, waiting for more wisdom to grow our understanding.
One little spark is that of Ruth (who has a book in the Old Testament of the same name). Ruth was from Moab.
Ruth forsook all else to bind to her mother-in-law Naomi, including a growing faith in the God of Israel, the LORD.
And what of who came from Ruth?
Importantly, Ruth the Moabitess was the great-grandmother of King David!
David, who had a heart after God’s own heart, who saw angels and wrestled bears and killed a giant.
Even more important though, Ruth is part of the linage that brings forth great King David’s GREATER SON – Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus the Christ!
This passage is judgement on Moab.
But this passage is not without hope.
The same hope we all have, throughout all of time across all of the world – We need Jesus.
We need Jesus.
* Father God,
Thank You for Jesus, the Promised One, great David’s greater Son.
You Lord, Your Person of the Son.
Thank You for Your love for us.
Amen.