The first part announced the fall of the city and urged Israel to give up its delusions and false hopes of speedy relief. Divine judgment had to come, for only a divine action makes possible the reign of God. The reign of God means, fist, the overturning of the false rule of the pagan nations (25-32) and, second, the implementation of the justice of God in the land (33-48). The implementation has three aspects: (1) a new exodus and conquest of the land (33-37); (2) the vanquishing of primordial evil greater than that in any one nation (38-39); and (3) the new temple-city, the return of the Lord who departed in chapter 11, the regulations of the new worship, the river coming from the Temple, and the new encampment of the tribes around the temple-city (40-48). A detailed outline illuminates the significance of the structure...(coming later this week)
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