Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today's psalms share something in common with Psalm 133 from yesterday.

They focus on the unity of the people of Israel.

Both Psalms point to corporate unfaithfulness to God,

corporate repentance and corporate forgiveness. They both have aspects of lament and praise.

In Psalm 106, the psalmist recounts a lot of the sins of Israel's history and confesses to God

that they have a pattern of being unfaithful to him. It also points out how God responded in those

situations. He hasn't given up on them, despite their cycle of rebellion and unbelief, because of his

steadfast love. But then verse 8 says something about God's motives that might seem to contradict that.

It says, he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power.

So which is it? Did he save them because of his steadfast love? Or did he save them for his name's sake?

This is one of those times when most theologians would just answer, yes, these two things aren't in

conflict. They may seem to be on the surface, but they aren't.

This doesn't mean scripture contradicts itself, and it doesn't mean God is duplicitous.

Both of these things can reside in the same space.

Verse 23 says Moses stood in the breach before him to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

In that way, we see that Moses was a Christ type, bridging the gap

between us and God, absorbing his wrath on our behalf so that we aren't destroyed. This is the

gospel, and Moses gave the Israelites a picture of it long before Christ fulfilled it. Then they

enter the promised land, but the pattern they've established doesn't change. They

continued in idolatry, forgetting about their relationship with God, and God did what he promised to do.

He raised up enemy nations to oppress them, and this is possibly referring to the stories we read in the

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