My people are destroyed because they don’t know me and it is your fault, you priests (Religion),
for you yourselves refuse to know me; therefore I refuse to recognize you as my priests (my messenger).
Since you have forgotten my laws, I will forget to bless your children.
(Protect your children).
The more my people multiplied, the more they sinned against me. They exchanged the glory of God for the disgrace of idols. (Desire, fortune, fame, etc.)
The priests (Religion) rejoice in the sins of the people; they lap it up and lick their lips for more! And thus it is: like priests (Religion), like people -
because the priests (Religion) are wicked, the people are too. Therefore, I will punish both priests (Religion) and people for all their wicked deeds.
They will eat and still be hungry. Though they do a big business as prostitutes, they shall have no children, for they have deserted me and turned to other Gods.
"Sex", Wine, Women, and song have robbed my people of their brains (understanding). There is no Faithfulness, no Kindness, and no Knowledge of God in the Land; there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery. There is violence everywhere, with one murder after another.
Man has exchanged the Glory of God for the disgrace of idols -
"Graven Image."
Matthew 15: 6-9
Jesus said, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word (law) of God. You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophecy of you when he said, these people honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me; in vain dose they worship me. Teachings as doctrines the precepts of men.
Today! Man worship religion, people and things, "By making a graven image for yourself in the form of any figures (
The Cross), The likeness of male or female."
Deuteronomy 4:16
Man do not worship the God (that Paul said in
Act 17:24-27) "Who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of Heaven and Earth and does not live in temples built by hands." (Churches) And he is not being served by human hands as if he needed anything,
because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
From one man he made every nation of men that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him though he is not far from each one of us.
For in him (God) we live, move, and have being. As some of your own poets have said,
we are his offspring.
Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that divine being is like gold or silver or stone - an image (graven image) made by man design and skill.
Everyone is the son of God. God is our Father, and that what Jesus goes on saying again and again. Christians will not listen - "Nobody Listens." Jesus said.
Matthew 23:9
"Do not call anyone on earth Father, for you have one Father, and he is in heaven."
"Heaven is within you" Luke 17:21
Man has exchanged the glory of God for the disgrace of idols - worshipping religion, people and everything else.
My people are destroyed because they don’t know me.
The more my people multiplied, the more they sinned against me. They exchanged the glory of God for the disgrace of idols (worshipping, religion, people and every thing else).
Since you have forgotten my laws, I will forget to bless your children. (Protect your children)
Because the priests (religion) are wicked the people are too. Therefore I will punish both priests (religion) and people for all their wicked deeds.
Wine, women, sex and song have robbed my people of their brains. There is no faithfulness, no kindness, and no knowledge of God in the land. There is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, raping, kidnapping of children for sex and committing adultery.
There is violence everywhere, with one murder after another.
Isaiah 45:5-7
"I AM" the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you.
Though you have not acknowledged me, so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know there is none beside me.
"I AM" the Lord: and there is no other. "I Formed" the light and create the darkness. I bring prosperity (good) and create disaster (evil); the Lord (God, Christ, "I AM", etc.) does all these things.
Psalm 139
O Lord you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit or stand. When far away you know my every thought.
You chart the path ahead of me, and tell me where to stop and rest. Every moment you know where I am. You know what I am going to say before I even say it. You both precede and follow me, and place your hand of Blessing on my head.
This is too glorious, too wonderful to believe! I can never get away from God!
If I go up to Heaven, you are there: If I go down to the place of the dead, you are there.
If I ride the morning winds to the farthest oceans. Even there your hand will guide me; your strength will support me.
If I try to hide in the darkness, the night becomes light around me for even darkness cannot hide from God: to you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are both alike to you.
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body, and knit them together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! It is amazing to think about. Your workmanship is marvelous – and how well I know it.
You were there while I was being formed in utter seclusion! You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Everyday was recorded in your book.
How precious it is, Lord, to realize that you are thinking about me constantly! I can’t even count how many times a day your thoughts turn towards me. And when I waken in the morning, you are still thinking of me.
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