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- God Warns Israel
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- Leviticus 26:11-46 And I will set my tabernacle among you:
and my soul shall not abhor you. And I will walk among you, and
will be your God, and ye shall be my people. I am the LORD your
God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye
should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your
yoke, and made you go upright. But if ye will not hearken
unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye
shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments,
so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break
my covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint
over you terror, consumption, and the burning plague, that
shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall
sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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- And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain
before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you;
and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. And if ye will not
yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven
times more for your sins. And I will break the pride of your
power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as
brass: And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land
shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the
land yield their fruits. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and
will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times
more plagues upon you according to your sins.
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- I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you
of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few
in number; and your high ways shall be desolate. And if ye
will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary
unto me; Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish
you yet seven times for your sins. And I will bring a sword upon
you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye
are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence
among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall
bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your
bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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- And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk
contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary unto you also
in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your
sins. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh
of your daughters shall ye eat. And I will destroy your high
places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon
the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. And
I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries
unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your
sweet odours. And I will bring the land into desolation: and
your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
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- And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will
draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate,
and your cities waste. {Ednote here God warns them what would
happen and it happened.]
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- Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth
desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the
land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. As long as it lieth desolate
it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when
ye dwelt upon it. And upon them that are left alive of you I
will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their
enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them;
and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall
fall when none pursueth. And they shall fall one upon
another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth:
and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies
shall eat you up. And they that are left of you shall pine away
in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities
of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
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- If they shall confess their iniquity,
and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which
they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary
unto me; And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and
have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their
uncircumcised hearts be humbled,
and they then accept of the punishment of
their iniquity: Then will I remember my covenant with
Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my
covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will
remember the land. The land also shall be left of them, and shall
enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and
they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because,
even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul
abhorred my statutes. And yet for all that, when they be in the
land of their enemies, I will not cast them
away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly,
and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors,
whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of
the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD. These
are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made
between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the
hand of Moses.
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- Romans 9:22-33 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and
to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the
vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that
he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of
mercy, which he had afore prepared
unto glory, Even us, whom he hath
called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As he saith also in Osee, I
will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved,
which was not beloved. And it shall come to
pass, that in the place where it was said unto them,
Ye are not my people; there shall they be
called the children of the living God.
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- Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of
the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a
remnant shall be saved: For he
will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness:
because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. And as
Esaias said before, Except the Lord of
Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles,
which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness,
even the righteousness which is of faith.
But Israel, which followed after the law
of righteousness, hath not attained
to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it
not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they
stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written, Behold, I
lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Halleluja
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