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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