Covenant Reformed News – December 2016 • Volume XVI, Issue 8
This article examines God's attribute of longsuffering as demonstrated toward impenitent, reprobate sinners, using Old Testament examples such as Jeroboam I and King Ahaz. Through biblical exegesis and theological reflection, the author explores why God delays judgment on the wicked and how this demonstrates His sovereign providence, including allowing false churches to exist alongside the true church as a testimony to believers.
God’s Longsuffering and the Reprobate Ungodly In the last five issues of the Covenant Reformed News, we have been setting forth the Bible’s teaching concerning the divine attribute of longsuffering. Now we shall consider this perfection of God in connection with the impenitent wicked. We start with the founder and first ruler of the Northern Kingdom, Jeroboam I, whom Scripture repeatedly calls the man who “made Israel to sin” (e.g., I Kings 14:16; 15:26, 30, 34; 16:2, 26; 22:52; II Kings 3:3;...