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NASB | Luke 19:40 But Jesus answered, "I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 19:40 Jesus replied, "I tell you, if these [people] keep silent, the stones will cry out [in praise]!" [Hab 2:11] |
Subject: The Ground Cries Out... |
Bible Note: Blood Polluting the Land Kalos' message made reference to this: "So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it." (Numbers 35:33) -- Wow. What a dire situation, beyond hope of redemption until Christ's blood brings healing. Even so, creation groans until the fulfillment of time. I thought I would seek out other verses like this: 1) don't echo the actions of the Canaanites, for those (sexual) actions pullute the land... "For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants." (Leviticus 18:25) 2) "... and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was pulluted with blood." (Psalm 106:39 --- a Psalm recounting the history of Israel as a litany of unfaithfulness) 3) ISAIAH 24 Wow... this whole chapter reveals the Earth as suffering under human folly. It begins with the Lord making the earth empty and waste, as he "distorts its surface and scatters abroad its inhabitants." ..."The earth mourns and fades away, The world languishes and fades away; The haughty people of the earth languish. The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth..." - then we see the consequence work out in human culture. - then: not vomit this time, but an earthquake: "The earth is violently broken, the earth is split open, The earth is shaken exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall totter like a hut; Its transgressions shall be heavy upon it, and it will fall, and not rise again. 4) And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols. (Jeremiah 16:18) So, interesting to see the line from Cain's murderous act drawn through all of these texts. |