Lesson 12: God Taught About Himself - Part 2

We see more of Yahweh’s character through His interactions with the nations of the world. As the Creator-God of all people, He continues to hold all nations accountable to Him. Four hundred years earlier, when He was signing the Abrahamic Covenant, He told Abraham that He was giving the evil and aggressive Amorites 400 years of grace to repent of their wicked ways. But now, 400 years later, as Yahweh led the descendants of Abraham back towards the land that He had given them, He was going to use the nation of Israel, Abraham’s descendants, as His instrument of punishment on the fully corrupted peoples of the land. As a group, these peoples were known as the Canaanites. God was demonstrating, as He had at the Global Flood and with the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, how gracious He was but also how as the all-righteous God, He would come to judge evil when it went beyond the limits of His grace. He was also using the Canaanite wars as a picture of Final Judgment, where in the future, He would remove all evil from His creation permanently and restore it to the all-good state that He had first created. To follow the session, access the notes at https://comeandsee.online/s/Lesson-12-God-Taught-About-Himself-Part-2.pdf