Leviticus 26
14 “However, if you do not listen to me or obey all these commands, 15 and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands, 16 I will punish you. I will bring sudden terrors upon you—wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will plant your crops in vain because your enemies will eat them. 17 I will turn against you, and you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will run even when no one is chasing you!
18 “And if, in spite of all this, you still disobey me, I will punish you seven times over for your sins. 19 I will break your proud spirit by making the skies as unyielding as iron and the earth as hard as bronze. 20 All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.”
This is God (yeah, the God of Love) talking to His People as they prepare to enter the Promised Land. Sounds so loving, doesn’t it? Actually, it does. God is not just the God of Love; He is THE HOLY GOD. His justice is right. His decisions are final. He disciplines those He loves, and those who disobey Him can expect His Holy Wrath to come down upon them. In the United States of America, we have somehow forgotten this. Now, the U.S. is not Israel of Leviticus, but Christians are! Our disobedience to God is why we are where we are these days, and I fear that we “ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” May God be glorified always!
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