Ephraim's Got Alzheimer's: The Divine Plague of Memory!

Yahweh Smashing!
"I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand." (Deut. 32:39)
"Hear and hear, but do not understand; see and see, but do not perceive. Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see...and hear...and understand...and then turn and be healed." (Isaiah 6:9-13)
"There is no remembrance of former things nor any remembrance of later things yet to happen... (Eccles. 1:11)

Yahweh Explaining: The Disease and the Diagnosis
"This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you says Yahweh, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies." (Jeremiah 13:25)
"For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge... Yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain." (Isaiah 17:10)
"My people have been lost sheep; ...led astray...they have forgotten their fold." (Jeremiah 50:6)
"Your pain is incurable... I have done these things to you." (Jeremiah 30:11-15)
"Samaria (Ephraim/House of Israel)...her wound is incurable. (Micah 1:5-9)

Yahweh's Divine Plague: Ephraim has Alzheimer's!
Upon the greater part of the People of Israel has come divine wounding, pain, discipline, punishment, disease, and dispersion... Blows that have obliterated all memory and all remembrance and all function. Ephraim has descended into darkness: a vegetable, not a fruit---good only for slicing, dicing, or juicing... A cabbage-patch doll!!
"Therefore justice is far from us (Ephraim/House of Israel), and righteousness does not overtake us; we look for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom. We grope...like those who have no eyes; we stumble..." (Isaiah 59:9-10; Rev. 3:17)

Yahweh's Prognosis:
"Remember these things O Jacob... I formed you, you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me." (Isaiah 44:21)
"For he remembered his holy promise and Abraham his servant." (Psalm 105:42)
"Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him." (Jeremiah 31:20)
"How can I give you up, O Ephraim! How can I hand you over, O Israel... my compassion grows warm and tender." (Hosea 11:8)
"Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death?" (Hosea 13:14)

Yahweh's Cure:
"For I will restore health to you and your wound I will heal says Yahweh." (Jeremiah 30:17)
"When Yahweh binds up the hurt of his people and heals the wound inflicted by His blow." (Isaiah 30:26)
"Be not wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones." (Proverbs 3:7)
"What are these feeble Jews doing...? Will they revive the burned stones... the heap of rubbish...?" (Nehemiah 4:1-2)

Yahweh's Restoration of All Israel:
"For behold I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create... I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be glad in my people." (Isaiah 65:17-19)

Who are You? What are You?
Is there in you an Awakening---the shaking off of the gloom and darkness? Is there awaking even a tiny seed of memory, buried in the earth and dead in the past, of who and what you are? Is the long sleep of your Ephraimite Alzheimer's being broken?