Dwelling Deep
BY HENRY W. FROST
" Flee, get von far off, tht<e// deep, O ye inhabitants of Hasor." Jeri miah 49 : 30. THE above
words,
from the
prophecy of
Jeremiah, app e a r in the
midst of a ser- ies of judgments which
Jehovah pronounces upon
the cities and
countries located about Palestine. The
people of these
places had been
brought into a peculiar relationship to Is- rael, and thus
to Jehovah, for,
though they had
been used to
punish Israel
for her sins, the
persecution of
that people had
been the persecution of Jehovah Himself.
Hence, Jehovah's arm was
bared in judgment, in behalf
of His own
honor and of
Israel's welfare.
And yet, even
in dealing with
these outside nations, the Gracious One does
not forget mercy. Hence,
while He pro-
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nounces judgment, He makes
a way of escape from judgment to as many as may
take advantage of it. Previously, as recorded in the
eighth verse of the chapter, He had cried :
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' Flee ye,
turn back, dwell deep, inhabitants of Dedan."
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And now, to
this other city
and country He
cries: "Flee,
get you far off,
dwell deep,
ye inhabitants
of Hazor. " In
other words the
storm must
burst ; but the
distant mountains have rocky
and vast caverns, and these
shall be a hiding place and a
place of refuge
in the time of
storm. So then,
Jehovah's ex- hortation is to
flee and to dwell
deep. And,
what God cried
to these nations,
He cries to all who have come,
in any sense,
under His judgment. And
thus His voice
reaches the
church, and individual Christians. For judgment begins
with the church
of God ; it is even now abroad
in the land : it is reaching particular churches
and congregations ; it is
dealing with
Photograph by W. T. Clark, M.D, many individual
Christians ; and
it is a time when there is but one thing to do, namely,
to "dwell deep." In doing this, the way of escape
will be found.
The need of dwelling deep, suggests the fact that