At the beginning of every school year, teachers face a critical challenge. It can affect their experience for that year and their control of the classroom. A student breaks one of the class rules. What will the teacher do? Will she stick to her word and enforce the consequences? Or will she back down? These moments are critical because the teacher knows every other student is watching. If she doesn’t enforce the rules, it will signal to the students that the rules aren’t serious. If she enforces the rules, she can effectively communicate to everyone that she will keep her word. Hopefully, the other students will learn by watching the consequences the one student faces. That is what God hoped would happen to Judah when they saw Israel’s destruction. Sadly, according to this passage, Judah didn’t learn the lesson and repeated Israel’s sins.
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