are we in exile?

God miraculously brought the Israelites out of Egypt. There were wonders galore, everyone knew that their God was powerful! YHWH was the best, the one and only God.

So God delivered them and gave them the law. If you want to be my peoples you gotta follow the law. So God gave them the 10 Commandments and a whole bunch of laws.

But then they all went crazy and started worshipping the wrong things and didn’t realy rely on God, they doubted Him after everything He had done. So God made them walk around for yonks in the desert until they all died and only their kids were alive! Then they entered the promised land!

Can we relate that to us today? The Salvation Army has had a great past, God has worked amazing things. He still does! But generally in Western culture there is no revival, infact we are more accustomed to people leaving than new people coming…

They were given the law,just like we were given our handbook of doctrine with our soldiers orders and regulations. But now many soldiers don’t even know there is such a thing let alone read it and obey it! We have all sorts of people all over the place in all positions who don’t even agree with half our doctrines…

Then they walked around for ages and ages… Until they all died so the new guys went into the promised land. I wonder if the younguns were waiting for them all to doe so they could get in there… Is that the same today? The youth of today want revival and want it now, yet there seems to be some blocks in the way. Could it be some of the ideas of form rather than essence?

Do you think we are in exile?