Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

the lands, doing according to their abominations.” “And after all that is come upon usfor our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that Thou our God hast punishedus less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; shouldwe again break Thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of theseabominations? wouldest not Thou be angry with us till Thou hadst consumed us,so that there should be no remnant nor escaping? O Lord God of Israel, Thou artrighteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before Thee inour trespasses: for we cannot stand before Thee because of this.” Ezra 9:1, 13-15.2 Chronicles 36:14-16: “Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people,transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted thehouse of the Lord which He had hallowed in Jerusalem. And the Lord God of theirfathers sent to them by His messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because He hadcompassion on His people, and on His dwelling place: but they mocked the messengersof God, and despised His words, and misused His prophets, until the wrath of the Lordarose against His people, till there was no remedy.”Leviticus 18:26, 27: “Ye shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, andshall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor anystranger that sojourneth among you: (for all these abominations have the men of theland done, which were before you, and the land is defiled).”Deuteronomy 32:16-22: “They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods, withabominations provoked they Him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God;to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathersfeared not. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God thatformed thee. And when the Lord saw it, He abhorred them, because280