People can see what they choose to see. Israel viewed the wicked as being happy. They thought that keeping the commandments meant living mournfully. As a consequence they ruined God either by not giving the tithe and offerings they had been taught or by giving unwillingly and thus forfeiting the joy of obedience. In contrast, the Lord was promising blessings too great to receive and promising that those who kept the commandments would be remembered I’m the book of life at the day of judgement.
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