Ps 60 1 You have rejected us, O God, and burst forth upon us;
you have been angry-now restore us!
2 You have shaken the land and torn it open;
mend its fractures, for it is quaking.
3 You have shown your people desperate times;
you have given us wine that makes us stagger.
4 But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner
to be unfurled against the bow.
Selah
5 Save us and help us with your right hand,
that those you love may be delivered.
There are two things that God has purposed for our salvation. God acts according to His sovereign will for the purpose of defending His elect while at the same time through His creation He destroys His enemies. We can be sure that if there is no one who can thwart Gods will then these two characteristics define the purpose of His sovereignty. We may not be able to understand all the troubles that we experience but we know that God does not act according to His purpose to prove that He is sovereign but for the purpose of defending us.
We do not live in a world where we are taught two opposing set of principles. We may enjoy getting knowledge of the scriptures but God is not like a teacher in heaven proving that He is sovereign by thwarting all men. This argument is good in a class room but it is an incorrect application of scripture.
God has ordered all things as He has qualified every thing that exist in a universe where good and evil exist. In every reality of the existence of Gods creation good and evil always rise up to the level of life and death. First because anything that is out of order as God has created it is the existence of a lesser god. This is why any foreign reality that exist in Gods creation must be extinguished. The scripture defines any reality that does not originate from Gods word must originate from a false image of Gods word. That false image is a dead idol. No matter how small the lie is it compared to dropping a deadly disease of liquid that contaminates the whole ocean.
This means that anything that opposes His elect must be fully extinguished. This is the definition of full and final salvation. Anything short of extinguishing that foreign object would dethrone God and redefine every teaching about salvation in the bible.This is why in the Bible the evil that we oppose is more than an action but its a mysterious existence of spiritual destruction. It rises the the level of the spiritual weight that we experience.
This is why God must act as Someone who not only acts perfectly according to His law but He must be familiar with and able to understand the heaviest weight that brings about the lowest experience of opposition by taking that upon Himself. So God deals with us on a level that so humble that He could heal us beyond a supernatural touch. He could heal us by being so attractive in the low estate of carrying that weight that we become self forgetful. He would show in taking upon Himself our weight that it was communicated to us beyond the opposition that He took our place. This is exactly what you find in this context of teaching of the Remnant in Israel acting as a go between for the rebellious nation. Salvation is in this context of the strength of the curse meeting the blessing of substitution. Death to the opposition and blessing to the Nation