August 1, 2025 4:00 am
God's chosen people are rebuked for their foolishness despite being redeemed from slavery, implying that those who turn away from His Word are the most foolish of all. The Bible warns of those who claim to be wise but abandon God for idolatry, and even prophets and preachers can become fools if they follow their own wisdom instead of God's word.
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Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Those whom God calls fools. Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is not He thy Father that hath bought thee? Hath He not made thee and established thee?
Deuteronomy thirty two six. This rebuke was by Moses as he warned the people of God just before their entrance into the Promised Land. It contains the first use of the Hebrew nabal, translated fool or foolish in the Bible. Here it is applied to God's chosen people after they had been redeemed out of Egyptian slavery by God. This implies that the most foolish of all people are those who have known about God and His great salvation and yet have turned away from His Word.
Paul writes in similar scathing terms of those who had known of God's great deliverance of their fathers from the evil world before the flood and yet then abandoned him for idolatry. When they knew God, their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1, 21 and 22 David used the same word about those who decide they can explain things without God, just as many intellectuals in modern America do. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread? They have not called upon God. Psalm 53, 1 and 4. Even prophets and preachers can become fools if they follow their own wisdom instead of God's word. Thus saith the Lord God, Woe unto the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.
Ezekiel 13, 3. Jesus rebuked even those he dearly loved because they were surprised and discouraged when he was crucified. O fools, he said. Because they had been slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. God help us to maintain believing hearts, not foolish hearts, as we serve Him.
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