Psa 50:21 “These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought that I was altogether like you; but I will rebuke you, and set them in order before your eyes.”
God said in the previous verses, “But to the wicked God says: “What right do you have to declare My statutes, Or take My covenant in your mouth, seeing you hate instruction and cast My words behind you? When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have been a partaker with adulterers. You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. “” (Psa 50:16-20). They did these things and God kept silent. They considered that maybe God just didn’t care. Or maybe He forgot. God’s silence should never be mistaken as meaning that He is doing nothing.
As kids we might get in trouble at school and we hoped our parents did not find out or would forget before they came home. The punishment from the folks would come, maybe not immediately but eventually, thus extending the dread of punishment. People think that that since God has not dealt with their sinfulness that maybe He will not punish them. Now notice God’s promise, “But I will rebuke you, and set them in order before your eyes. “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:” 21b-23.
Notice the following scriptures:
Gal 6:7 “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. The seed we sow in this life we shall reap. If we sow to the flesh we will reap corruption, if we sow to the spirit, we reap life V. 8. Do not make the mistake by thinking God’s silence is the acceptance of our sinfulness.”
2 Pet 3:4-9 “and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
Some may question if the Lord will return. Others reject the idea. God has done nothing in the last four thousand years so His silence must imply consent. We only deceive ourselves to think God will not judge the world and punish evil. We must not mistake God’s silence as if He is not going to do anything.
Heb. 10:30 “For we know Him who said, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord. And again, “THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”