September 07th, 2019

Reading for Saturday September 7, 2019

 Ezekiel 25: 15-16 
"Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity,  therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast.

Why were the Philistines, and many others, destroyed never to return, while the Israelites are brought back to God's grace many times?

In Ezekiel 25 it says that the Philistines acted in "never ending enmity".  God alone knows the hearts of men.  We are all sinful, but He knows those who are irredeemable and those who will repent.