This morning I experienced the saddest moment of my life. When I entered into that reality, the tragic scene brought me to tears. After coming out of that passage, I still can’t stop the weeping. I felt the grief and heartbreak of the Father. How sad He was to see the fact of that generation in such simple and unspectacular verse “When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD nor the work which He had done for Israel.” (Judges 2: 10) I can’t think of any more tragic thing in the world than this—a generation does not know the LORD nor the work that He had done for them. It all resulted from their fathers who had seen all the great works of the LORD which He had done for them, yet did not obey the voice of the LORD; they made covenant with idols, and didn’t tear down their altars. (Judges 2:2)
The LORD simply asked: “Why have you done this?” The LORD has been betrayed and forgotten. All those great works that He had done for them has been forgotten by a whole generation, all His love has been ignored. His heart has been pounded into pieces.
I pray it will not happen to the LORD again in my generation…
Judges 2:1-2
Then the Angel of the Lord camp up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: "I led you up from Egypt and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers; and I said, 'I will never break My covenant with you. And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.' But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?
Judges 2:8-10
Now Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died when he was one hundred and ten years old. And they buried him within the border of this inheritance at Timnath Heres, in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash. When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD nor the work which He had done for Israel.
