God sees the sins of all people - Ahnsahnghong - Heavenly Mother

God sees the sins of all people

In the history of Elisha, we can see the scene where God was watching a crime. Naaman, who was commander of the army of the king of Aram, visited the prophet Elisha and was cured of his leprosy by the power of God (2 Ki 5:1-14). He tried to give Elisha valuable gifts for his healing, but Elisha refused. Then Elisha's servant Gehazi became covetous when he saw the gifts, and plotted an evil scheme without letting the prophet Elisha know it.

2 Ki 5:15-27 『Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, "Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. Please accept now a gift from your servant." The prophet answered, "As surely as the LORD lives, whom I serve, I will not accept a thing." . . . Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, " . . . I will run after him and get something from him." So Gehazi hurried after Naaman. When Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him. "Is everything all right?" he asked. "Everything is all right," Gehazi answered. "My master sent me to say, ‘Two young men from the company of the prophets have just come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.' " . . . he took the things from the servants and put them away in the house. He sent the men away and they left. Then he went in and stood before his master Elisha. "Where have you been, Gehazi?" Elisha asked. "Your servant didn't go anywhere," Gehazi answered. But Elisha said to him, "Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? . . . Naaman's leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever." Then Gehazi went from Elisha's presence and he was leprous, as white as snow. 』

Gehazi, who was unaware that God was watching him, committed the sin of deceiving the prophet Elisha and dishonoring God. Even at that moment, God was looking down upon him from heaven. Because of that sin, Gehazi was punished with leprosy, and the curse of leprosy clung to his descendants forever.

This is the kind of sin that we are apt to commit when we are oblivious to the fact that God watches everything. In the days of Joshua, Achan also committed a sin in the thought that God wouldn't know. He hid in his tent the treasures dedicated to God among the spoils that the Israelites took from Jericho when they conquered it.

Because of Achan's sin, Israel lost the next battle―the battle of Ai, where many of the Israelites were killed. When Joshua was greatly grieved and distressed because of that, God told him that someone among the Israelites had sinned, and revealed the sin of Achan.

Jos 7:1-21 『But the Israelites acted unfaithfully in regard to the devoted things; Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of them. So the LORD's anger burned against Israel. . . . The LORD said to Joshua, "Stand up! What are you doing down on your face? Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have lied, they have put them with their own possessions. Early the next morning Joshua had Israel come forward by tribes, and Judah was taken. The clans of Judah came forward, and he took the Zerahites. . . . and Achan . . . was taken. . . . Achan replied, "It is true! I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I have done: When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."』

Achan committed the sin of stealing from God and also the sin of not believing in God, thinking that no one would know what he had done. His sin was also exposed completely before God. In the end, Achan and his entire family were all killed (Jos 7:22-26).

Taking a lesson from what happened in the past, we must not forget that God is watching us with His eyes like blazing fire. We may escape the eyes of people, but nothing can be concealed from God. God is watching us constantly.

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