StewardoftheMystery
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We as Christians need to learn from the mistakes of the past, or else we are in danger of repeating them. In this instance I am talking about the mistakes the children of Israel made against God, which in turn angered God and brought on His wrath.
When God brought the children of Israel out the hard bondage in Egypt, and brought them into the lands they were to posses, God warned them of not what to do. One of the things God warned the children of Israel not to do, is not to make a covenant with those other nations. God also warned them not take up the ways, the beliefs, and the traditions of those other nations, and also not to worship their gods; because all these were an abomination in the sight of the Lord.
The Lord also warned them not to marry the women of those other nations, not because of their nationality or skin color, but because God said these foreign women would cause the men to follow after the foreign beliefs of their foreign religions, and then cause the men to worship their gods.
So God wanted the children of Israel to be pure and undefiled by outside influences and foreign beliefs. And God wanted Israel to be faithful only to Him, and remain faithful by abiding in Him and in His words. God compared this relationship to the relationship of marriage, between a woman and a man.
But we know by the words of God that Israel did not remain faithful to her Husband, and she went and played the harlot with all the surrounding nations, by taking up their ways, their beliefs, and their foreign traditions. And so God was angered with this adulterous people, and God turned the hearts of those other nations against Israel, to hate Israel, and to come and destroy her by first exposing her nakedness (sins) and by then making her desolate.
This of course is also what led to the destruction of Jerusalem, first by the Babylonians, then by the Romans. God said, it was the overspreading of her abominations that caused Him to depart, and that also brought on her desolation. And we know by prophecy, at the end of this ongoing spiritual war between forces of good and evil; desolations are also determined in the future by God upon a wicked world.
So why do I bring this up? I bring this up because I see many a Christian, and Christian denominations making the same mistakes as did the children of Israel. They have taken up the ways, the beliefs, and the traditions of all the surrounding nations. They have mingled other pagan beliefs in with long held sound Biblical doctrine. They have tried to mingle man’s vain babbling of science in with God’s pure words of Truth. God warned of this kind of mixing in several different ways in scripture; as the word Babylon means “confusion by mixing.” Does not a little mixing of bad leaven into the lump also leaven the whole lump?
And so why would one think God would deal differently with so called Christians, as those in the past who called themselves Jews? Is God a respecter of persons? Or does God use different weights and measures when it comes to righteous judgment?
I’ve heard some say history does not repeat, it just rhymes. Well, it is written “God requires that which is past.” So if you want to understand what is coming in future prophecy, and why, look to the prophecy past; as God requires it. But also understand, it is also written, “tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile”.
A warning from God….”Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues”. (Rev.18-4)
When God brought the children of Israel out the hard bondage in Egypt, and brought them into the lands they were to posses, God warned them of not what to do. One of the things God warned the children of Israel not to do, is not to make a covenant with those other nations. God also warned them not take up the ways, the beliefs, and the traditions of those other nations, and also not to worship their gods; because all these were an abomination in the sight of the Lord.
The Lord also warned them not to marry the women of those other nations, not because of their nationality or skin color, but because God said these foreign women would cause the men to follow after the foreign beliefs of their foreign religions, and then cause the men to worship their gods.
So God wanted the children of Israel to be pure and undefiled by outside influences and foreign beliefs. And God wanted Israel to be faithful only to Him, and remain faithful by abiding in Him and in His words. God compared this relationship to the relationship of marriage, between a woman and a man.
But we know by the words of God that Israel did not remain faithful to her Husband, and she went and played the harlot with all the surrounding nations, by taking up their ways, their beliefs, and their foreign traditions. And so God was angered with this adulterous people, and God turned the hearts of those other nations against Israel, to hate Israel, and to come and destroy her by first exposing her nakedness (sins) and by then making her desolate.
This of course is also what led to the destruction of Jerusalem, first by the Babylonians, then by the Romans. God said, it was the overspreading of her abominations that caused Him to depart, and that also brought on her desolation. And we know by prophecy, at the end of this ongoing spiritual war between forces of good and evil; desolations are also determined in the future by God upon a wicked world.
So why do I bring this up? I bring this up because I see many a Christian, and Christian denominations making the same mistakes as did the children of Israel. They have taken up the ways, the beliefs, and the traditions of all the surrounding nations. They have mingled other pagan beliefs in with long held sound Biblical doctrine. They have tried to mingle man’s vain babbling of science in with God’s pure words of Truth. God warned of this kind of mixing in several different ways in scripture; as the word Babylon means “confusion by mixing.” Does not a little mixing of bad leaven into the lump also leaven the whole lump?
And so why would one think God would deal differently with so called Christians, as those in the past who called themselves Jews? Is God a respecter of persons? Or does God use different weights and measures when it comes to righteous judgment?
I’ve heard some say history does not repeat, it just rhymes. Well, it is written “God requires that which is past.” So if you want to understand what is coming in future prophecy, and why, look to the prophecy past; as God requires it. But also understand, it is also written, “tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile”.
A warning from God….”Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues”. (Rev.18-4)
