“If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;”
But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors — their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me. The restoration path opens: confession of their sins and their ancestors' sins — the unfaithfulness and the hostility. The confession that opens the restoration path is the honest acknowledgment of what was done: not rationalization, not minimization, but the direct naming of the unfaithfulness and the hostility. The confession required parallels the confession required of the individual sin offerer (Leviticus 5:5): the path back begins with honest acknowledgment.
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