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A Generation That Knows Not The Lord |
Joshua was the great
leader of the Israelites during the invasion and conquest of the
Promised Land. Joshua was the successor of Moses. A
reading of Judges 2:7 reveals, “so the people served the Lord all
the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua,
who had seen all the great works of the Lord which He had done for
Israel.
Joshua, “the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died when he
was one hundred and ten years old. And they buried him within the
border of his inheritance at Timnath Heres, in the mountains of
Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.” (Judges 2:8-9).
Time passed following the death of Joshua and “when all that
generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose
after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for
Israel” (Judges 2:10).
This generation who did not know the Lord “did evil in the sight
of the Lord, and served the Baals; and they forsook the Lord God of
their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they
followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all
around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to
anger. They forsook the Lord and served Baal and the
Ashtoreths” (Judges 2:11-14).
The present world in which we live has a lot in common concerning doing
evil and forsaking the Lord God. Have we too raised a generation
or generations that knows not the Lord?
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