Our God is an awesome, jealous God who will not tolerate anything or anyone in our life that separates us from Him.
We are His children and He is our Father. In order for us to accomplish His will for our life we need to clearly hear and be directed by the small still voice of the Holy Spirit He places in us. Willful, stubborn rebellion against Him He will not tolerate forever.
The present generation of Jews had learned nothing from the past failures of the nation. The people were not broken in heart, only more stubborn.
Jeremiah 44:7-9
7 “Now therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, leaving none to remain, 8 in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to dwell, that you may cut yourselves off and be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
11 Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
Ezekiel 33:11
10 You give shameful counsel to your house, Cutting off many peoples, And sin against your soul.
Habakkuk 2:10
15 And they rejected His statutes wand His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them that they should not do like them. 16 So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.
2 Kings 17:15–17
22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
1 Corinthians 10:22
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