God's plan of comfort and usefulness for His people included fashioning them into instruments to draw the world into right relationship with Himself. The silence of death from the nations afar from His presence. Even the flagrant examples of disobedience will be cleansed by the blood of the Lamb. Can God cleanse Rahab? Can God clean the gnostic rebellions of Babylon? In Christ it is cleansed. God is too holy to even behold sin, but His entrance into the world was hammered through the making of a people for His own posession, that we could draw near to Him. The disobedience of Hezekiah would infiltrate in subtilty the Babylonians, through Daniel and the Power of Godliness, in Caleb, would and had subdued the godlessness of Rahab, as just a token of His heart to draw all men unto Himself.
I am not casting my people away, said God to them. I am using them to cast into the nations to draw down principalities and their possessors as fish into the net of God's intentions. I am not away from you, even in Babylon.
"God sent not His son into the world to condemn the world..."
He was making it very clear,{and Daniel got it} Israel was sharpened to do battle with the principles of darkness and even the weak things of the world would subdue what man thinks is strong. God, in Christ was, even then reconciling the world unto Himself.
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