Guest Speaker: Allen Lehman
"16 After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction." Genesis 15:16 (NLT)
Nations and Degrees of Degradation calls for Different Responses from God…
Justified…
…and functioning as a kingdom of priests.
- Obedient
- Responds to the prophetic voice
- Live lives of repentance and humility
- Spirit of the law is followed and temple worship flourishes
- Joy in the land
- Shalom outbreak
Exodus 19:5-6
Correctable…
…and reformable through natural means.
May not respond to the prophetic voice but responds to other dealings of God.
Examples:
- Pests
- Famine
- Enemies rise up
- Oppression
Example: Nineveh responded to the prophetic voice.
War is the atonement price for moral failure.
Discipline; 1 Corinthians 5:5
Incorrigible…
…through natural means so God uses extreme measures.
Defeat, Subjugation, Exile
Examples:
- Egypt
- Babylon for Judah
- Assyria for Israel
- Nations subjugated by Israel via Israel’s wars.
(David sometimes operated out of demonized mode when God had not spoke to do such.)
Long Periods of GRACE
Demonized…
…culture – Satan dwells and permeates every aspect of life.
Herem-Devoted to the Lord for Destruction
Examples:
- The Flood
- Jericho minus Rehab
- Sodom and Gomorrah
- Israel conquest of Promise Land and its wars of annihilation of men, women, children, and animals
- Jerusalem 70 AD
- Blasphemy-lifetime of stiff arming Holy Spirit
2 Chronicles 36:16; “…and there was no remedy.”
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