Today’s reading from the Psalms is frightening. In it, God makes clear that He will sell His people into slavery if they disobey His core teachings. We, as a nation, have disobeyed. God’s punishment is nearing.
Ps 78:56-57, 58-59, 61-62
“R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!
They tempted and rebelled against God the Most High,
and kept not His decrees.
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers;
they recoiled like a treacherous bow.
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!
They tempted and rebelled against God the Most High,
and kept not His decrees.
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers;
they recoiled like a treacherous bow.
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!
(He can punish what He created!)
They angered Him with their high places
and with their idols roused His jealousy.
God heard and was enraged
and utterly rejected Israel.
They angered Him with their high places
and with their idols roused His jealousy.
God heard and was enraged
and utterly rejected Israel.
(History tells us that He sold His disobedient people into slavery. If we don’t want ourselves and our children to suffer the same fate, we have to return to obedience. He is already bringing those who want to enslave and destroy us into our once-Christian nations. The Moslem scourge lusts to make us their slaves. The scourge is already falling. He is allowing that to happen, right in front of our eyes! God’s punishment is nearing.)
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!
And He surrendered His strength into captivity,
His glory in the hands of the foe.
He abandoned His people to the sword
and was enraged against his inheritance.
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!
And He surrendered His strength into captivity,
His glory in the hands of the foe.
He abandoned His people to the sword
and was enraged against his inheritance.
(And so it goes with us, in our age. We have lived lives opposed to love, life, and truth. His punishment is in the works. We have little time left to repent before we, too, are ‘abandoned to the sword’. God’s punishment is nearing.)
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!“
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!“
