How blasé have we become about God's dealings compared to the Israelites?
Despite having just as much evidence of God's holiness and hatred for sin, we are not really scared. We have become just about as blasé about many of these things as the Israelites were, even though God was working right in their midst.
Les explains that we have just as much evidence of God's holiness and His hatred for sin as the Israelites did, yet it does not scare us. He says we have become just about as blasé about a lot of these things as the Israelites were, in spite of everything God was doing in their very midst. He warns not to lose sight of that, and urges believers to take these things literally, not to explain them away or rationalize them, but simply to read it and say, this is the way it was.