God has His reasons for everything, and He is just and holy in all He commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are not God, and that is why we can’t understand Him sometimes, oftentimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since God is God, we do well to listen to what He tells us to do—and do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A little known connection in one story when the Israelites fought the Amalekites (descendants of Esau).
That was the battle where Aaron and Hur held up Moses’ arms until the end of the day, so the army of Israel would win.
Many years later, the Amalekites came against Israel again.
God commanded, through the prophet Samuel, that king Saul should destroy ALL the Amalekites.
Saul disobeyed, and kept king Agag alive.
Again, many years later, one of the ‘Agagites’ named Haman set out to kill all the Jews—with an evil scheme with hate in his heart.
God saved the day, and saved the Jews, through the Jewish queen Esther, and the Agagite Haman was hanged on the gallows he built for the Jew he hated most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that is one of the reasons we can understand, for God’s order to destroy the godless people in the Promised Land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God’s stated reason for the command is because the extreme wickedness of the people of Canaan would rub off on His chosen people and influence them to turn away from God and drift toward the pagan gods.
Sure enough, it happened just like God warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that happens to us today.
God’s people, Christians, did not eliminate evolution when it was introduced in our schools.
God’s people, Christians, did not eliminate abortion when it was declared legal.
Abortion is America’s horrific version of Israel offering their little children to the god Molec—burning them alive in the red-hot statue.
This country will not endure—half death—and—half life (just like Lincoln said over slavery).
God’s people, Christians, did not eliminate the decree to take the Ten Commandments out of our schools.
God’s people, Christians, did not eliminate the decree to take the Bible out of our schools.
God’s people, Christians, did not eliminate the decree to take prayer out of our schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RESULTS ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God is not pleased—
— America’s students now way behind other countries.
— Sixty million babies dead before the god, the altar, the sacrament of abortion.
— Dozens of children murdered in school, by children acting on what abortion taught them—just animals.
— A generation that does not know God.
— A generation that does not know our Godly heritage.
— Sexual perversion, with inventions of every unimaginable sort.
— Ideology bent on destroying the most God-blessed country on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The wicked will be turned into hell—and all the nations that forget God.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BUT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“If My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves<\/span>, and pray<\/span>, and seek My face<\/span>, and turn from THEIR WICKED WAYS<\/span>—then—I will hear from heaven, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n God did that for Israel over and over, in the Bible, when they finally turned back to Him. Repent of our sin. God has His reasons for everything, and He is just and holy in all He commands. We are not God, and that is why we can’t understand Him sometimes, oftentimes. Since God is God, we do well to listen to what He tells us to do—and do it. A little known connection in one story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,3,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-family","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7295,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions\/7295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
He will do that for us again, IF<\/span> we do what He requires in the verse above.
Nothing less will do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get forgiven for our sin.
Get rid of our sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"