I Chronicles 9:1b Now Judah had been exiled to Babylon because of its treachery.
We just went through all the family lists from the beginning of the Bible. We can see the line from Adam to David. And the biggest point from previous Bible stories is summarized in this one line. Judah was exiled not because someone stronger took them over. It was because they themselves failed. They failed to keep their promise to God. They failed to push away false idols. They failed to remember the Sabbath Day. They allowed themselves to lie, cheat, and steal. They let the seed of evil take hold of their hearts and it grew, pushing God out.
The people’s unfaithfulness was their downfall. It is still this way today. Our unfaithfulness severs our relationship with God. We allow the world to sneak in and fill our minds and hearts with falsehoods about what is right and wrong. We have let society stretch the boundaries for what is ok, what is moral. All of the things we are now forced to accept is allowing the devil to take hold. If we don’t turn away from these lies and treachery, we will end up in our own spiritual exile.
Romans 1:25-31 brings light to what we are seeing in today’s world. Our hands are dirty, and so are our souls.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. They are gossips and scandalmongers and they hate God. They are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wickedness, and rebellious toward their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
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