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Gods Eviction Notices

Gods Eviction Notices. (Romans 10:2) For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. (NKJV)

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Gods Eviction Notices

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  1. Gods Eviction Notices

  2. (Romans 10:2) For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. (NKJV) • (2 Timothy 4:3) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; (NKJV)

  3. (Judges 21:10) • So the congregation sent out there twelve thousand of their most valiant men, and commanded them, saying, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and children. (NKJV)

  4. 1. Would a righteous God exact such strict judgment on an ignorant and innocent people?

  5. (Genesis 15:15-16) • "Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. "But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete." (NKJV)

  6. “There is no indication that Canaanite gods handed down a moral code for their people to follow. Indeed, the Canaanites were apparently much more moral than were their gods, an observation that is not especially flattering to the gods. To the Canaanite, fertility was of major importance in worship, and both male and female prostitution was prevalent…God had had enough. The people of Canaan were wicked in Abraham’s day, but God showed mercy. The Canaanites had the witness of Abraham and his altars, and they recognized the power…

  7. of the patriarch’s God, but they did not forsake their own limitations. There were other opportunities and signs of the truth, but the Canaanites ignored them as well. Finally, God’s mercy turned to judgment. Punishment was meted out to the Canaanites for their sins and to prevent them from leading Israel astray. And later centuries the prophets would entreat their hearers to ‘repent today us tomorrow be too late.’ At the end of the 15th century many Canaanites ran out of tomorrow’s.” (Hoerth, Archaeology and the Old Testament, 221-222)

  8. Would a righteous God exact such strict judgment on an ignorant and innocent people? • Why God allowed the Canaanites to be destroyed…

  9. (Deuteronomy 18:9-22) • "When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, "or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. "For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you. "You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. "For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you. "The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, "according to all you desired of the LORD your God in…

  10. Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.' "And the LORD said to me: 'What they have spoken is good. 'I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. 'And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. 'But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.' "And if you say in your heart, 'How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?' - "when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him. (NKJV)

  11. (Deuteronomy 12:29-31) • "When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, "take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.' "You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. (NKJV)

  12. (Leviticus 18:24-30) • ‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you. 'For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants. 'You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you '(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled), 'lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you. 'For whoever commits any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall be cut off from among their people. 'Therefore you shall keep My ordinance, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.'" (NKJV)

  13. “The need to know the will of God on specific occasions (e.g. in time of war) was keenly felt in ancient times, and the nations around Israel had devised various magical procedures for finding it out. These included examining the entrails of birds and animals for omens, consulting the dead and apparently even the sacrifice of children. Magic could be used to affect the course of events as well as simply gain information. (D.A. Carson et al, eds. New Bible Commentary, 217)

  14. “Cannanite worship as socially destructive. It’s religious acts were pornographic and sick, seriously damaging to children, creating early impressions of deities with no interest in moral behavior. It tried to dignify, by the use of religious labels, depraved acts of bestiality and corruption. It had a low estimate of human life. It suggested that anything was permissible, promiscuity, murder or anything else, in order to guarantee a good crop at harvest. It ignored the highest values both in the family and in the wider community-love, loyalty, purity, peace and security-and encouraged the view that all these things were inferior to material prosperity, physical satisfaction and human pleasure. A society where those things matter most is self-destructive.” (Brown, The Message of Deuteronomy, 146)

  15. (Deuteronomy 18:13) • "You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. (NKJV)

  16. Would a righteous God exact such strict judgment on an ignorant and innocent people? • Why God allowed the Canaanites to be destroyed… • The land was not given to the Jews on account of their own righteousness…

  17. (Deuteronomy 9:4-5) • "Do not think in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out before you, saying, 'Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land'; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out from before you. "It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. (NKJV)

  18. (Isaiah 64:6) But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away. (NKJV) • (Philippians 3:9) and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; (NKJV)

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