결코 의롭지 않은 이스라엘 백성 가스라이팅(신명기9장)

신명기 9장은 가나안 정복은 이스라엘 백성이 의로워서가 아니라 오히려 고집스러운 민족임을 강조합니다. 그리고 이 모든 것은 하나님의 주권과 선택 그리고 계획하에 이루어진 것이니 이스라엘 백성 너희들은 잘난척하지 말고 순종하며 살아라, 란 의미인 것 같습니다.

 

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요단강을 건너 거인족을 만나리

1. "Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and foritfied up to heaven. 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, who, you know, and of whom you have heard it said, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?' 3. Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the Lord your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has promised you.

 

신명기 9장 1절은 이스라엘 백성에게 천명합니다. 이제 곧 요단강을 건너면 아나킴족, 그러니까 가나안에 사는 거인족을 만나 싸워야 할 것이다. 이들은 크고 강하지만 하나님이 너희 앞에 나아가 소멸하는 불과 같이 그들을 멸하실 거라고 합니다. 컨수밍 파이어 cunsuming fire가 소멸하는 불이라는 뜻이라고 하니까요.

 

 

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 4. "Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you. 5. Not because of you righteousness or the uprightness of your heart art you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

 

 

이스라엘 민족이 하나님의 특별한 선택을 받은 것으로 생각했는데 그것보다 가나안 족속이 너무 사악해서 이스라엘 백성을 대리하여 혼쭐을 내준 것인가 봅니다. 그래서인지 이스라엘 백성더러 가나안 백성을 물리치고 혹여나 너희들의 의로움 때문에 승리하였다는 자만은 하지 말라고 한 듯합니다. 그러니까 하나님의 뜻을 이루는 도구로 선택된 것이죠.

 

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목이 곧은 백성

 

6. "Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people. 7. Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. 8. Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you. 9. When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain for forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10 And the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the Lord had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the asembly. 11. And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 12 Then the Lord said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.'

 

 

하나님은 이스라엘 백성을 목이 곧은 백성이라고 하였습니다. 영어로는 stubborn인데 이는 히브리어로 목이 뻣뻣한을 의미하는데 고집이 세고 완고하며 쉽게 꺾이지 않는 성향을 의미한다고 합니다. 하나님이 이들 민족을 그렇게 부르신 데에 목이 곧은 성향으로 창조하신 건가 싶었는데요. 금송아지 사건부터 하나님께 불순종했던 일련의 사건들을 부고 그리 부른 겁니다. 창조주 하나님 앞에 이렇게 고집스러운 민족이 있다는 것도 신기한데 선택받아 축복까지 받는다니 참으로 아이러니합니다.

 

 

 

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모세의 뒤끝 작렬

 

13. "Furthemore, the lord said to me, 'I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people. 14. Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.' 15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was bruning with fire. And the two tablets of the covernant were in my two hands. 16. And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you. 17 So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes. 18 Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before , for forty days and forty nights. I neighther ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger. 19. For I was afraid fo the anger and hot displeasure that the Lord bore against you. so that he was ready to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also. 20 And the Lord was so angry with  Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21 Then I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain. 

 

그렇게 뒤끝있는 하나님은 목이 곧은 이스라엘 백성의 근거로 일련의 사건을 요목조목 얘기하는데, 모세의 입을 통해서 다시금 상기하고 있습니다. 그런 일례로 황금송아지를 만들어 숭배한 사건을 들었는데요. 우상숭배를 해서 노여움을 산 것인지 황금을 남용한 것 때문인지는 알 수가 없네요.

 

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모세의 중보기도

 

22."At Taberah also, and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath. 23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-bamea, saying, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you'. then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God and did not believe him or obey his voice. 24 You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

 

 25 "So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you. 26 And I prayed to the Lord, 'O Lord God, do not destroy your people and your heritate, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember your servants, Anraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornnerss of this people, or their wickedness or their sin, 28 lest the land from which you brought us say, "Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness." 29. For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.'

 

 

 

모세는 이렇듯 이스라엘 백성들이 하나님께 불복종한 것을 상기하였고, 하나님이 이들을 버리겠다는 것을 40일 동안 중보기도로 용서를 구했습니다. 모세가 이스라엘 백성을 위해 기도를 한 것은 하나님이 약속의 땅으로 가게 해 주겠다고 약속을 했기 때문인데 모세는 그 땅을 노리고 그리 열심히 산 것일까요? 그리고 하나님은 모세의 마음을 알고 너는 가나안 땅을 밟지 못하겠다고 한 것인가요?