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MG:
I see that God calls us and then he gives us the heart to be obedient to his call. Then he takes down all our idols and sanctifies us through Christs death on the cross. God pardons everyone who sets his heart to seek and yearn for God even though they don't purify themselves through the works of the law. God receives everyone who returns to him. If we return to him he will also have compassion on our brethren and our children so thier captors let them go and they will also return to the Lord.

JCAliveInMe:
Joe, thank you very much for writing this post.  It is definitely an obscure passage of Scripture, one that I've never heard anybody preach from.  What really strikes me as amazing is first 10. First, in verse 6-9 we see an offer to the captives of God's grace.  These people were first taken captive, and now were dispersed and had no orderly kingdom.  Had fallen away from the purpose of God, and lost the very reality of the function of their lives in the earth.  And so God, in his mercy and grace, stirs the heart of the King and sends forth messengers in a call of repentance.

So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they  Laughed them to scorn, and mocked them(2 Chr. 30:10).
How sad, these people were given an opportunity to return into the purpose of God and outright rejected it.  They laughed and mocked at the messengers.  How deceitful the things of this world are.  Sometimes people can become so comfortable in their bondage that they see no benefit or possible reality of  returning to the purpose of God.  This reminds me of a few scriptures in the New Testament. 
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.  But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; (Heb.3:12-14).
Sin, is a very deceitful thing.  Anything that keeps us from fulfilling the purpose of God in manifesting the life of his Son is sin.  Even walking in our religious knowledge without manifesting the life of the Son can harden us, because sin is very deceitful. These people laughed and mocked the messengers, because they were deceived by their sin.  They probably still had some form of religiosity in their life.  And so once the messengers were sent to call them to repentance, and to return to the purpose of God,their conscience had already been seared.  How sad is when people do not receive the gracious offer of the Living God to heal them and restore them from their captivity.

 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever (1 JN. 2:15-17).
Again, thank you for writing this post, it has encouraged me and brought forth the word of God in my heart.

                                                                                            Love in Jesus Christ, Christopher

orion77:
Here are some interesting verses in Hebrews that might shed some light:


(Heb 9:22 LITV)  And almost all things are purified by blood according to the Law; and apart from shedding of blood no remission occurs.

(Heb 9:23 LITV)  Then it was needful for the figures of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves by better sacrifices than these.

(Heb 9:24 LITV)  For Christ did not enter into the Holy of Holies made by hands, types of the true things, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf,

(Heb 9:25 LITV)  not that He should often offer Himself even as the high priest enters into the Holy of Holies year by year with blood of others;

(Heb 9:26 LITV)  since He must often have suffered from the foundation of the world. But now once for all, at the completion of the ages, He has been manifested for putting away of sin through the sacrifice of Himself.

(Heb 9:27 LITV)  And as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, Judgment;

(Heb 9:28 LITV)  so Christ having been once offered "to bear the sins of many," Christ shall appear a second time without sin to those expecting Him for salvation. Isa. 53:12


(Isa 53:12 LITV)  Because of this I will divide to Him with the great, and with the strong He shall divide the spoil; because He poured out His soul to death; and He was counted with those transgressing; and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for those transgressing.


(Luk 24:44 LITV)  And He said to them, These are the Words which I spoke to you yet being with you, that all the things must be fulfilled having been written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, concerning Me.

(Luk 24:45 LITV)  Then He opened up their mind to understand the Scriptures,

(Luk 24:46 LITV)  and said to them, So it is written, and so the Christ must suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day. No OT passage

(Hos 6:1 LITV)  Come and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us. He has stricken, and He will bind us up.

(Hos 6:2 LITV)  After two days He will bring us to life. In the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live before Him.

(Hos 6:3 LITV)  Then we shall know, we who follow on to know Jehovah. His going forth is established as the dawn. And He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.


God bless,

Gary

joyful1:
What do you think it means, Joe?

ned:
2Ch30:21(LITV)  And the sons of Israel, those found in Jerusalem, kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy. And the Levites praised Jehovah day to day, and the priests, with instruments of praise before Jehovah.

Seven, not literally seven days, but always; (to be complete).
H7650 shaw-bah'
A primitive root; properly to be complete, but used only as a denominative from H7651; to seven oneself, that is, swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times): - adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full [by mistake for H7646], take an oath, X straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.

The message for us:
1Co 5:7-8(LITV)  Then purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. So let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and of evil, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
If we indeed are unleavened, we are uncorrupted- this definitely not of ourselves, but only because Jesus chose us to be.
Let us always pray for and keep sincerity and truth about us, every day! Will this not give us great joy?!

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