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Bible Repentance: Path to Love - Robert J. Wieland

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land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised<br />

hearts be humbled, and they then accept the<br />

punishment of their iniquity … I will for their<br />

sakes remember the covenant of their ances<strong>to</strong>rs,<br />

whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.<br />

(Lev. 26:3-40). They were explicitly <strong>to</strong> “confess<br />

their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers.”<br />

- Succeeding generations often recognized the<br />

truth of this principle. King Josiah, seeking <strong>to</strong><br />

promote a corporate repentance in his day,<br />

confessed that “great is the wrath of the Lord that<br />

is kindled against us, because our fathers have not<br />

hearkened un<strong>to</strong> the words of this book, <strong>to</strong> do<br />

according un<strong>to</strong> all that which is written concerning<br />

us” (2 Kings 22:13). He said nothing about the<br />

guilt of his own generation, so clearly did he see<br />

their involvement with the guilt of previous<br />

generations. The writer of the Book of Chronicles<br />

agrees with this confession of corporate guilt (2<br />

Chronicles 34:21).<br />

- Ezra lumps <strong>to</strong>gether the guilt of his own<br />

generation with that of their fathers: “Since the<br />

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