The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Leviticus 20:22-23,
"Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them."
Here is some important information! God tells Israel he is going to lay waste to a people because they are doing certain things. Israel is to not do these things or they will suffer the same fate. Capital punishment is prescribed for many of these things so that if justice is carried out, if/when anyone does these things the people won't suffer God's wrath.
So, what are these things? Many of them are embodied in the "sexual revolution" of the 60s and 70s (and still active and flourishing today). I put "sexual revolution" in quotes because the term is used for what is more adequately described as really a "sexual rebellion" against God himself: Improper sexual relations.
The homosexual rebellion against God of more recent times is on the list of what God says he will destroy peoples for. "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." Leviticus 20:13. We now have embraced homosexuality in our laws and the social norms of our day. In fact it is considered immoral to speak out against homosexuality. People today fear the church might impose its will on the nation if given the chance. It isn't the church people of today need to fear - it is God himself that comes to destroy.
Another reason God destroyed the people of Canaan was their practice of murdering their own helpless children- offering them to a fake God to burn to death in a fire. Today we are more humane in murdering our children. We suck their brains out before they have a chance to make it down the birth canal. Here is what God said, "Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him. I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death, I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek." Leviticus 20:2-5.
"Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them."
Here is some important information! God tells Israel he is going to lay waste to a people because they are doing certain things. Israel is to not do these things or they will suffer the same fate. Capital punishment is prescribed for many of these things so that if justice is carried out, if/when anyone does these things the people won't suffer God's wrath.
So, what are these things? Many of them are embodied in the "sexual revolution" of the 60s and 70s (and still active and flourishing today). I put "sexual revolution" in quotes because the term is used for what is more adequately described as really a "sexual rebellion" against God himself: Improper sexual relations.
The homosexual rebellion against God of more recent times is on the list of what God says he will destroy peoples for. "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." Leviticus 20:13. We now have embraced homosexuality in our laws and the social norms of our day. In fact it is considered immoral to speak out against homosexuality. People today fear the church might impose its will on the nation if given the chance. It isn't the church people of today need to fear - it is God himself that comes to destroy.
Another reason God destroyed the people of Canaan was their practice of murdering their own helpless children- offering them to a fake God to burn to death in a fire. Today we are more humane in murdering our children. We suck their brains out before they have a chance to make it down the birth canal. Here is what God said, "Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him. I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death, I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek." Leviticus 20:2-5.
Notice in this passage what God says about those who "close their eyes" when children are murdered.
Certainly not all the inhabitants of Canaan were homosexual. But all faced the wrath of God in Canaan - everyone. Certainly not all the inhabitants murdered their children. But all faced the wrath of God in Canaan - everyone.
Don't tell me God isn't coming to destroy us as a people. Just ask the Canaanites how this works.
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