Wednesday, June 12, 2019

The Wrath of Abandonment....



Acts 7:42

But God turned away and gave them over to worship lthe host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:" ‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?"

or

Ephraim is joined to idols;
leave him alone.--Hosea 4:17

or

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,--Romans 1:24

and there is more in Romans...God gave them over to vile passions...to a debased mind.

The word "gave" in the Greek has the meaning of to deliver up one into custody, to be judged, condemned, punished, scourged, tormented, put to death.  It is the wrath of abandonment.  God will abandon man when he consistently abandons Him.  He will remove His hand of restraint and give him over to eat the fruit of his own ways.  He will allow his sin to run its natural course which will end in death.  Pretty scary to think of being abandoned by God...

“But My people would not heed My voice,
And Israel would have none of Me.
So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart,
To walk in their own counsels.--Psalm 81:11-12

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