Deuteronomy 20:10
“When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.
Tag: God offers Peace before Wrath
When God sent the nation of Israel into the land of Canaan, the “iniquity” of the Canaanites was full. God told Abraham that he could not go into the land to possess it because the time was not yet ready:
Genesis 15:13-16
Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
However, there would be a time when their sin meet God’s wrath. But, even still, as the above verse indicates, God would be patient and allow a nation to repent and to seek peace with God. That would mean they cam into servanthood of God. That would mean they would worship God and not their false gods. The reason for this is because God did not want the nation to follow the foreign gods fo the land, but to worship ONLY Him. God, was, however, gracious in His wrath. God’s grace is always available to those who seek peace.
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