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excerpted from: The Puritannical Blog: On Consulting with idolators, heretics, etc
Thirdly, As these unlawful confederacies draw us both into great judgments and great sins, so into great security and stupidity under these great plagues and sins, which will make the estate of such to be yet worse, Hos. 7.9. After Ephraim’s mixing himself among the people, it is added, “Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not; yea, grey hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth it not:” although his confederates have distressed him, and not strengthened him, and although there may be observed in him divers signs of a decaying dying condition, yet he knows it not, nor takes it to heart. The same thing is insisted upon, ver. 11, “Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go up to Assyria.” He is as void of understanding as a silly dove, whose nest being spoiled, and “her young ones taken from her” (which the Chaldee paraphrase addeth for explication’s cause), yet she still returneth to those places where, and among those people by whom, she hath been so spoiled: so Israel will still be meddling with those that have done him great hurt.
Fourthly, We find that such confederacy or association, either with idolaters or known impious persons, is seldom or never recorded in the book of God without a reproof, or some greater mark of God’s displeasure put upon it. If it were like the polygamy of the patriarchs, often mentioned and not reproved, it were the less marvel to hear it so much debated; but now, when God hath so purposely set so many beacons upon those rocks and shelves, that we may beware of them, O why shall we be so mad as still to run upon them? It was reproved in the time of the judges, Judg. 2.1-3. It was reproved in the time of the king’s. Ahab’s covenant with Benhadad, Asa’s covenant with Benhadad, Ahaz’s confederacy with the Assyrian, Jehoshaphat’s association, first with Ahab, then with Ahaziah, Amaziah’s association with those hundred thousand men of Ephraim, when God was not with them,—all these are plainly disallowed and condemned. Moreover, that reproof, Jer. 2.18, “And now, what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?” the Chaldee hath thus: “What have ye to do to associate with Pharaoh king of Egypt? And what have ye to do to make a covenant with the Assyrian?” Again, after the captivity, Ezra 9, the Jews’ mingling of themselves with the heathen is lamented.
Nor does God at all cause David or Israel to need any other than God Himself in Christ Jesus to carry out the very laws and truths commanded by God to him. God in no way ever commands us as new creatures in Jesus Christ to seek to establish a “coalition of the willing” even among ourselves, much less with pagans / well-intended and polite according to the world, non-regenerate persons who are true demon worshippers and know it not. God performs through each what He wills and He alone is the Coordinator and Logistician as well as the Doer of It:
Jeremiah 21:12 House of David, thus saith Jehovah: Judge with justice in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go forth like fire and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27