Miscellaneous Notes
Ed Tarkowski

Addendum to #3: The Seven Trumpets Relate To The First Four Seals

See ADDENDUM #1 Leviticus 26: (v. 1-13) Promises upon keeping the precepts.
See ADDENDUM #2 Leviticus 26 (v. 14-39) Threatenings against disobedience.

ADDENDUM #3: Leviticus 26 (v. 40-46) God promises to remember those that repent.

We have read much about what happens to Israel if they do not repent, but the ending verses of Leviticus 26 now tell us that some will repent, a remnant will be preserved:

Leviticus 26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
{41} And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

God will gather a remnant from where He has scattered them at a time when He remembers......remembers what?

  1. His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

  2. the land - "and I will remember the land"

Leviticus 26:42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

God remembers His land, and drives Israel out of it that it may rest because they refused to give it the rest commanded by God for their benefit:

Leviticus 26:43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

God says again He does this for two reasons:

  1. they despised His judgments, most likely they either didn't fear Him to obey or refused to accept their punishment as a call to repentance

  2. they abhored God's commands
And yet, He is merciful to them to gather a remnant and not destroy them all because He still wants to be their God:

Leviticus 26:44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
{45} But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
{46} These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.