Why did Israel's blessings become a snare and a stumbling block to them?
Israel's blessings became a snare because their exalted position of feasting at God's table, receiving all His blessings and their ramifications, led them to fall. As David declared, their table became a trap, a stumbling block, and a recompense, causing Israel to stumble.
Les explains that Paul, quoting King David from the Psalms, says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense." Les asks what table the psalmist meant and connects it to the Shepherd's Psalm, where God prepares a table. Israel was literally feasting at God's table and receiving all the blessings and their ramifications, but that exalted position of sitting at God's table became a snare and a recompense and caused them to fall. Les calls it a horror of horrors and warns Gentiles of much the same, not to take these blessings and grace for granted, for the day is coming when it will be taken from us.
And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
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What happened to Israel because of their exalted position at God's table?
Israel's exalted position of sitting at God's table became a snare, trap, stumbling block, and recompense, and caused them to fall.