Dear friend,
Please, take heed to the lesson that God sets before us about the behavior of the Jews of Israel, in the old days, how they rebelled against Him and His Word, to lust after, worship, and do those things that God forbids. In our own day, we, collectively, have far exceeded the sinful excesses of Sodom, Gomorrah, and all the evils of yesteryear, for, collectively, we have institutionalized and many times legalized the abominations that God hates. Please, repent of your own evils. Seek God's Light and God's salvation, before it is too late for you.
2 Kings 17:7-23
7 For
so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their
God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
8
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out
from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had
made.
9 And the children of Israel
did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD
their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower
of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and
under every green tree:
11 And there
they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the
LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to
anger:
12 For they served idols,
whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and
against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye
from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according
to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my
servants the prophets.
14
Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks,
like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
15 And they rejected his statutes,
and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he
testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went
after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the
LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD
their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a
grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to
pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves
to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel,
and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah
only.
19 Also Judah kept not the
commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which
they made.
20 And the LORD rejected
all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of
spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and
they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from
following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins
of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight,
as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out
of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
Each of us shall choose where we spend eternity, either by accepting God's Christ and repenting or by rejecting Him.
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