"Hate Speech": Evil Nations will reap...
...will we heed the many, many EXAMPLES in history...??
Evil nations rush to try to remove God and His Word from their thoughts...
2 Kings 16-17:
Hoshea was the last king of the Northern Kingdom which began as the most powerful with the most powerful tribes. The real reason for Hoshea's defeat and the deportation of the remaining tribes of the Northern Kingdom was their disloyalty to God: 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. . . . Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of His sight (17:16-23,33).
The Southern Kingdom of Judah was also permeated with idol worship. In his zeal to disregard God, His Word, and His prophets, Ahaz, king of Judah, did not permit worship of Jehovah in the House of the Lord (16:10-18; II Chr. 28:24). He filled Jerusalem and Judah with shrines to Baal and the goddess Ashtoreth and favored the immoral sodomites (II Kin. 16:3-4; II Chr. 28:2-4,22-25).
We see this same disloyalty today in some who call themselves Christians. They have their names on church rolls, attend church briefly on Sunday, and yet the rest of the week they live as if God did not exist. They seem to have no genuine heart's desire to please the Lord. The important warning for today is that disregard of the Word of God makes self the god — the one who makes life's choices. And whoever or whatever gets our attention and loyalty becomes our idol whether it is a person, place, thing, or activity — then defeat becomes inevitable.
Jesus said of those in His day: This people draweth nigh unto Me with their mouth, and honoureth Me with their lips; but their heart is far from Me (Matt. 15:8).
Evil nations rush to try to remove God and His Word from their thoughts
(source: http://www.biblepathway.org/English/TodaysDevotional.html )
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