Enduring protection for those who trust Jehovah
The position of those who trust in Jehovah is celebrated, in
virtue of this intervention of Jehovah, who would now protect them
for ever, and they abide for ever. Peace would be on Israel. Those
that turned to their crooked ways — Jehovah would lead them forth with
the open evildoers in judgment. The rod of wickedness would not rest
upon the lot of the righteous. There would be an exclusion of the
rod of wickedness (what represented the wicked as a tribe),
separation from its mischief, that the righteous might not go
astray. All this, I apprehend, refers to the last inroad of the
final power of Gog, or the last condition of the Assyrian, perhaps
to Daniel 8 (only that that gives its whole character, not merely
its final one); also to the final king of the north, who comes in
after the wilful king in Daniel 11.
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