The Old and the New

Regardless of whether it is the Old Testament or the New Testament, the sins of mankind  never cease.   Jesus Christ the very person of God Our Father himself came to live according to God Our Fathers will and still we can not get it together. 

In Ezekiel Chapter 22 verses 8-16

In the Old Testament, the book of Ezekiel God speaks to us according to our sins,  even back then.

8)’What is holy to me you have spurned, and my sabbaths you have desecrated.9)There are those in you who slander to cause bloodshed; within you are those who feast on the mountains; in your midst are those who do lewd things. 10) In you are those who uncover the nakedness of their fathers, and in you those who coerce women in their menstrual period. 11) There are those in you who do abominable things with the wives of their neighbors, men who defile their daughters-in-law by incest, men who coerce their sisters, the daughters of their own fathers. 12) There are those in you who take bribes to shed blood.   You exact interest and usury; you despoil your neighbors violently; and me you have forgotten, says the Lord God.

13) See I am brushing one hand against the other because of the unjust profits you have made and because of the blood shed in your midst. 14) Can your heart remain firm, will your hands be strong, in the days when I deal with you?   I the Lord, have spoken, and I will act. 15) I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you over foreign lands, so that I may purge your uncleanness.  16)In you I will allow myself to be profaned in the eyes of the nations; thus you shall know that  I am the LORD.’

We can read the Old Testament, and see that mankind will not change.  To turn from sin to the Love of God through Jesus Christ is the epitomy of eternal salvation. Yet, when one reads the above scripture, one would think God was speaking about todays immorality and impropriety, not thousands of years ago.

We know God is true to His word, for He sent the ‘great flood’.  His covenant to us that He will not destroy us again by flood, is the rainbow.  Yet, now, thousands of years later, our impropriety, and immorality is reaching the very core of God.  He is watching.   We have only to wait to see if He will destoy us, much like Sodom and Gomorrah.   In the book of Genesis Chapter 19  verses  1-29 you may reference this passage.

The New Testament in the Book of Revelations we recongnize Gods wrath on a sinful man.

Chapter 16 verses 1-17

THE SEVEN BOWLS. Chapter 16 verse 1) ” I heard a mighty voice from the sanctuary say to the seven angels, “Go and pour out upon the earth the seven bowls of Gods wrath!”

2) The first angel went out, and when he poured out his bowl on the earth, severe and festering boils broke out on the men who had accepted the mark of the beast or worshiped its image.

3) The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea.   The sea turned to blood like that of a corpse, and every creature living in the sea died.

4)  The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs.   These also turned to blood.

5)  Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters cry out:

“YOU ARE JUST, O HOLY ONE WHO IS AND WHO WAS, IN PASSING THIS SENTENCE!

6)  TO THOSE WHO SHED BLOOD OF SAINTS AND PROPHETS, YOU HAVE GIVEN BLOOD TO DRINK; THEY DESERVE IT”

7)  THEN I HEARD THE ALTER CRY OUT: “YES LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, YOUR JUDGMENTS ARE TRUE AND JUST!”

8)  The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun.   He was commissioned to burn men with fire.

9)  Those who were scorched by the intense heat blasphedmed the name of God who had power to send these plagues, but They did not repent or give him due honor.

10)  The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast.   Its kingdom was plunged into darkness; men bit their tongues in pain.

11)  and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their suffering and their boils.   But they did not turn away from their wicked deeds.

12)  The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates.   Its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.

13)  I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come from the mouth of the dragon, from the mouth of the beast, and ferom the mouth of the false prophet;

14)  These spirits were devils who worked prodigies.   They went out to assemble all the kings of the earth for battle on the great day of God The Almighty.

15)  (Be on your guard! I come like a thief.   Happy the man who stays wide awake and fully clothed for fear of going naked and exposed for all to see!)

16)  The devils then assembled the kings in a place called in Hebrew “Armageddon.”

17)  Finally, the seven  angel poured out his bowl upon the empty air.   From the throne in the sanctuary came a loud boice which said, “IT IS FINISHED!”

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