Although the Lord will show the futility of trusting Egypt by its overthrow, his broader purpose is of transforming, delivering grace.

Paul contrasts the before and after of Christian identity and bases the contract of Christian and worldly conduct upon that.

When God overthrows the idols on which Egypt relies, he opens the way for them to turn to the Lord.

The idol of covetousness demands the sacrifice of God's kingdom in exchange for absolute emptiness.

The sovereign Lord rests in his own purpose and rebukes the nations in his own time.

Fornication and it concomitants are incompatible with Christian calling, Christian identity, and Christian love.

Ephraim and Syria's reliance on themselves, their alliances, and their false religion leads to disastrous judgment; but the Lord's remnant will learn through that to look to their Maker instead.

As part of his larger warning against the danger of apostasty, Paul emphasized the continuity between the Corinthian church and OT Israel, including that all Israel was baptized into Moses.

Starting from the revealed standpoint that loving parents discipline their children, the nature of rebuke as a benefit of the covenant of grace is clarified by a particular thread of special revelation.

Christian identity as God's beloved children in Christ grounds the Christian behavior of imitating God by walking in love.