We now come to 3 groups of triads (the 5th, 6th, and 7th triad). The Spirit begins with a sarcastic or jabbing comment, but His point is that they had already deviated from what they knew to be true. They had already set aside the truth and were walking on a dangerous and perilous pathway of wrong belief and unbelief that would lead to apostasy. They were teetering on becoming like the first generation of Israelites who were freed from Egypt lived out their lives as apostates—holding to a form of religion, but never willing to bet their lives on all that Yahweh said He was, and all that He said He was going to do.
