Salt!
The Lord God created in us the life-saving need for salt. He gave salt many other uses, primarily as part of the grain offering (Lev. 2:13), the burnt offering (Ezek. 43:24) and the incense (Exo. 30:35). It was part of the temple offering and used to ratify covenants. Ezek. 16:4 also tells me it was rubbed on newborn babies to promote good health. Salt is still used as a preservative, but also to make land barren. I’ve killed weeds in sidewalk cracks by putting salt on them.
The Dead Sea is on the eastern border of Israel and is the lowest point on earth. Water flows in, but doesn’t flow out. Sodom was along its shores. Zechariah tells me that one day, in the Millennial Kingdom, the Dead Sea will be living waters … the same waters that John saw in Rev. 22.
Okay, enough background. I wonder if the Lord, knowing all to come of course, but always giving us an out” to avoid His anger, made the Dead Sea to purify the Promised Land from the idolatry that was to come from His people. To preserve them so to speak. So it didn’t come to that. But it did, the Baals were too alluring to a fallen world. The Father needed to sacrifice the Son. We are the salt of the earth.
The faithful remnant has always been, in the wilderness with Moses, in Assyria and in Babylon. The faithful remnant is still scattered, but God will regather them in the last days. They’ve been preserved, as has the Land.
By salt? Just makes me ponder and continue to be amazed by the wisdom of the Lord (Isa. 40). Lord, I thank you for humbling me, even though I may be so off-base in this tangent. Long thought about, but never put pen to paper. I’m blessed when my focus is on You. :-)
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Author: otter
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