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Isaiah 17, Because they have forgotten GOD

Isa 17:1, THE BURDEN AGAINST DAMASCUS. “BEHOLD, DAMASCUS WILL CEASE FROM BEING A CITY, AND IT WILL BE A RUINOUS HEAP. 

Assyria, did in fact fight & destroyed the alliance of Syria and Ephraim who went against Judah! But, it’s still a city today; which points to a future attack! Today, Damascus is a heap of ruins, but in the near future it will be utterly destroyed! A double prophecy of destruction!

Amo 1:3-5, Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I WILL NOT TURN AWAY ITS PUNISHMENT, BECAUSE THEY HAVE THRESHED GILEAD WITH IMPLEMENTS OF IRON. BUT I WILL SEND A FIRE INTO THE HOUSE OF HAZAEL, WHICH SHALL DEVOUR THE PALACES OF BEN-HADAD. I WILL ALSO BREAK THE GATE BAR OF DAMASCUS, AND CUT OFF THE INHABITANT FROM THE VALLEY OF AVEN, …

Isa 17:7, IN THAT DAY A MAN WILL LOOK TO HIS MAKER, AND HIS EYES WILL HAVE RESPECT FOR THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. 

When 911 came upon New York the churches were filled for they thought this is the beginning of the end! YET slowly left the churches because life was getting back to normal! WHEN THIS PROPHECY COMES TO PASS, THEN MEN WILL ONCE AGAIN LOOK TO GOD THEIR MAKER!

Isa 17:8, HE WILL NOT LOOK TO THE ALTARS, THE WORK OF HIS HANDS; HE WILL NOT RESPECT WHAT HIS FINGERS HAVE MADE, NOR THE WOODEN IMAGES NOR THE INCENSE ALTARS.

This is the one of GOD’s purposes to get man to look upon HIM and not their useless idols!

Psa 115:4-7, THEIR IDOLS ARE SILVER AND GOLD, THE WORK OF MEN’S HANDS. THEY HAVE MOUTHS, BUT THEY DO NOT SPEAK; EYES THEY HAVE, BUT THEY DO NOT SEE; THEY HAVE EARS, BUT THEY DO NOT HEAR; NOSES THEY HAVE, BUT THEY DO NOT SMELL; THEY HAVE HANDS, BUT THEY DO NOT HANDLE; FEET THEY HAVE, BUT THEY DO NOT WALK; NOR DO THEY MUTTER THROUGH THEIR THROAT.

Isa 17:10, BECAUSE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THE GOD OF YOUR SALVATION, AND HAVE NOT BEEN MINDFUL OF THE ROCK OF YOUR STRONGHOLD…

HIS word will come to pass as it is written! Don’t trust in idols for they are dead, but trust in the LORD! Judgment will come because men have forgotten or ignored the GOD of all creation!

Deu 8:11, “BEWARE THAT YOU DO NOT FORGET THE LORD YOUR GOD BY NOT KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS, HIS JUDGMENTS, AND HIS STATUTES WHICH I COMMAND YOU TODAY, 

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Psalm 115, Worthless idols!

Psa 115:1, Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, BUT TO YOUR NAME GIVE GLORY, Because of Your mercy, Because of Your truth. 

Pride seems to show its ugly head from even the best of men! Look what I have, I made this, I’m better than you! Give all the glory to GOD; HE is worthy to be PRAISED!

Pro 16:18, Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall. 

Dan 4:30-31, The king spoke, saying, “Is not this great Babylon, THAT I HAVE BUILT for a royal dwelling BY MY MIGHTY POWER and FOR THE HONOR OF MY MAJESTY?” While the word was still in the king’s mouth, a voice fell from heaven: “King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: the kingdom has departed from you!

Honor and Glory belongs to the LORD; never take credit for what HE has done in your life!

Psa 115:3-6, But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases. THEIR IDOLS ARE SILVER AND GOLD, THE WORK OF MEN’S HANDS. They have mouths, but they do not speak; Eyes they have, but they do not see; They have ears, but they do not hear; Noses they have, but they do not smell;

The Idols of men, even though they have eyes, ears, mouths, hands and feet are dead! They are objects with no life, YET people worship them expecting it to hear and respond?

Psa 115:8, THOSE WHO MAKE THEM ARE LIKE THEM; SO IS EVERYONE WHO TRUSTS IN THEM. 

As there is no life in these idols, THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND TRUST IN THEM ARE ALSO DEAD SPIRITUALLY!

Mat 8:22, BUT JESUS SAID TO HIM, “FOLLOW ME, AND LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR OWN DEAD.”

The day is coming WHEN THE LIVING AND THE SPIRITUALLY DEAD will be face to face with the LORD to give an account of their time spent on earth (1Pet 4:5)! WHAT CAN WE SAY, WHAT CAN WE DO; FOR HE KNOWS EVERY WORD AND THOUGHT THAT WE HAD SINCE THE DAY OF YOUR BIRTH!

Psa 115:9, O Israel, trust in the LORD; He is their help and their shield. 

Don’t place your faith and trust in idols, but in the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY! WORSHIP AND FOLLOW HIM WHO GAVE ALL FOR YOU!

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Psalm 97, useless idols!

Psa 97:1, THE LORD REIGNS; Let the earth rejoice; Let the multitude of isles be glad! 

The LORD REIGNS, there is no contender to the throne; HE made the earth and rules it! The day is coming where HE will be called “THE KING OF ALL THE EARTH”!  REJOICE!

Zec 14:9, AND THE LORD SHALL BE KING OVER ALL THE EARTH. In that day it shall be “The LORD is one,” And His name one. 

Psa 97:2-4, CLOUDS AND DARKNESS SURROUND HIM; … A FIRE GOES BEFORE HIM, And burns up His enemies round about. HIS LIGHTNINGS LIGHT THE WORLD; THE EARTH SEES AND TREMBLES.

The Psalmist is describing the day when the LORD of all came down on the mountain of GOD! HIS AWESOME PRESENCE!

Exo 19:16, 18, … THUNDERINGS AND LIGHTNINGS, AND A THICK CLOUD ON THE MOUNTAIN; and the SOUND OF THE TRUMPET WAS VERY LOUD, so that all the people who were in the camp TREMBLED…Now Mount Sinai WAS COMPLETELY IN SMOKE, BECAUSE THE LORD DESCENDED UPON IT IN FIRE. …, THE WHOLE MOUNTAIN QUAKED GREATLY. 

The LORD used Dark clouds to surround HIM, because HIS presence would have been too much for anyone to bear!

1Ti 6:16, …, DWELLING IN UNAPPROACHABLE LIGHT, WHOM NO MAN HAS SEEN OR CAN SEE, …

Psa 97:6, THE HEAVENS DECLARE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THE PEOPLES SEE HIS GLORY.  

My father came to faith just by looking at everything around him! THE HEAVENS SHOUT THE EXISTENCE OF HIM WHO MADE IT! THERE IS NO EXCUSE!

Rom 1:20, …HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES ARE CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE, EVEN HIS ETERNAL POWER AND GODHEAD, SO THAT THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE, 

Psa 97:7, Let all be put to shame who serve carved images, Who boast of idols. WORSHIP HIM, all you gods.

YET, fools worship their so-called gods made by men’s hands! Don’t trip, you may break to pieces the god you bow down to! WORSHIP THE LORD ALL YOU MEN OF THE EARTH FOR HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!

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2Kings 14, A GODLY KING OR FOOL!

2Ki 14:1,3, … Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, became king. AND HE DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, yet not like his father David; he did everything as his father Joash had done.

Amaziah started out doing what was right in the sight of the LORD, but what counts is how we finish the race! 

2Ki 14:8, Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “COME, LET US FACE ONE ANOTHER IN BATTLE.” 

This godly king Amaziah fought against Israel yet he lost the battle and was imprisoned?

2Ki 14:13, THEN JEHOASH KING OF ISRAEL CAPTURED AMAZIAH KING OF JUDAH

What this chapter doesn’t tell you is that Amaziah turned his back to the LORD!

2Ch 25:14, Now it was so, after Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up to be his gods, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them. 

HE TRUST THE LORD FOR THE VICTORY OF EDOM, YET TOOK THE gods OF EDOM WHO WERE NOT ABLE TO PROTECT THEM?

Pro 26:12, DO YOU SEE A MAN WISE IN HIS OWN EYES? THERE IS MORE HOPE FOR A FOOL THAN FOR HIM. 

HE REJECTED GODLY COUNCIL AND GOD SO HE PAID FOR THE FOOLISHNESS OF HIS HEART! TRUSTING IN IDOLS RATHER THAN THE ONLY TRUE A LIVING GOD!

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2Kings 13, false worship!

2Ki 13:1-2, … Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel in Samaria, … AND HE DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND FOLLOWED THE SINS OF JEROBOAM THE SON of Nebat, WHO HAD MADE ISRAEL SIN. HE DID NOT DEPART FROM THEM.

JEROBOAM IMPLEMENTED FALSE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD! THEY WORSHIP IDOLS AND CALLED THEM THE GOD WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF EQYPT!  MANS WAY NO GODS WAY!

2Ki 13:14, Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die. THEN JOASH THE KING OF ISRAEL CAME DOWN TO HIM, AND WEPT OVER HIS FACE, AND SAID, “O MY FATHER, MY FATHER… 

JOASH (OR JEHOAHAZ) DID NOT WORSHIP BAAL, YET DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD BY WORSHIPING THE LORD HIS WAY AND NOT THE WAY GOD HAD WRITTEN!

Mar 7:7, AND IN VAIN THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.’ 

In the Catholic faith people worship a statue of Jesus which in their mind is the correct way of doing it, but it violates HIS law!

Exo 20:4, “YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELF A CARVED IMAGE—ANY LIKENESS OF ANYTHING THAT IS IN HEAVEN ABOVE, OR THAT IS IN THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THAT IS IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH;

Pro 14:12, THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEMS RIGHT TO A MAN, BUT ITS END IS THE WAY OF DEATH. 

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2Kings 12, Great Start but?

12Ki 12:2, JEHOASH DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD ALL THE DAYS IN WHICH JEHOIADA THE PRIEST INSTRUCTED HIM.

Jehoiada, the high priest, was like a father to king Jehoash. The king was raised in the temple of the LORD and while the high priest lived, he gave the king godly advice! BUT AT HIS DEATH SERVED IDOLS! 2Chr 24:15-22

2Ch 24:22, Thus Joash (Jehoash) the king DID NOT REMEMBER THE KINDNESS WHICH JEHOIADA HIS FATHER HAD DONE TO HIM, BUT KILLED HIS SON; and as he died, he said, “THE LORD LOOK ON IT, AND REPAY!” 

King Jehoash, started out doing what was right in the sight of the LORD, Yet at the death of his godly adviser, he left the LORD for Idols.  MANY START OF WELL, YET FINISH BADLY!

Pro 17:13, Whoever rewards evil for good, EVIL WILL NOT DEPART FROM HIS HOUSE. 

2Ki 12:20, AND HIS SERVANTS AROSE AND FORMED A CONSPIRACY, AND KILLED JOASH..

BECAUSE HE HAD LEFT THE LORD, A SMALL ARMY OF THE SYRIANS CAME, BUT THE LORD DELIVERED A VERY GREAT ARMY (ISRAEL) INTO THEIR HANDS OF THE SYRIANS! (2Ch 24:24-27); LEAVING JEHOASH WOUNDED!

SUCH A HOPEFUL START, BUT A MISERABLE END! WE MAY HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING BORN TO GOD FEARING PARENTS, YET AT THE END IT’S OUR CHOICE! FINISH THE RACE THAT GOD SET BEFORE YOU!

2Ti 4:7, I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 

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1Kings 18, no one answered!

1Ki 18:21, And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “HOW LONG WILL YOU FALTER BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS? IF THE LORD IS GOD, FOLLOW HIM; BUT IF BAAL, FOLLOW HIM.”…

A TEST TO SEE WHO IS GOD; NEVER MIND THE RICH HISTORY OF GOD’S WORK WITH ISRAEL? HOW THE LORD FEED ISRAEL FOR 40 YEARS, THE CROSSING OF THE RED SEA, THE CROSSING OF THE JORDAN YET, THEY NEED A TEST? A WICKED GENERATION!

Mat 12:39, BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, “AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION SEEKS AFTER A SIGN, AND NO SIGN WILL BE GIVEN TO IT EXCEPT THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAH.

1Ki 18:22, Then Elijah said to the people, “I ALONE am left a prophet of the LORD; BUT BAAL’S PROPHETS ARE FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEN. 

One against 450 baal worshippers! IF GOD IS WITH US WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?

1Ki 18:26, … and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, “O Baal, hear us!” BUT THERE WAS NO VOICE; NO ONE ANSWERED…

Hab 2:18, “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, The molded image, a teacher of lies, That the maker of its mold should trust in it, To make mute idols? 

Those who make them are like them; So is everyone who trusts in them (Psa 115:8). IF YOU PLACE YOUR TRUST IN ANYTHING OTHER THAN GOD ALONE THEN YOU ARE SPIRITUALLY DEAD! TRUST IN THE LORD FOR HE IS GOD!

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1Kings 16, A new low in Israel! Ahab!

1Ki 16:19, because of the sins which he had committed in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, IN WALKING IN THE WAY OF JEROBOAM, AND IN HIS SIN WHICH HE HAD COMMITTED TO MAKE ISRAEL SIN. 

2Ki 17:21, …THEN JEROBOAM DROVE ISRAEL FROM FOLLOWING THE LORD, AND MADE THEM COMMIT A GREAT SIN

Jeroboam long dead, Yet his shameful legacy was used to compare all the other kings of Israel that came after him! WALKING IN THE WAY OF JEROBOAM!

1Ki 16:30-31, NOW AHAB the son of Omri DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, MORE THAN ALL WHO WERE BEFORE HIM. And it came to pass, AS THOUGH IT HAD BEEN A TRIVIAL THING FOR HIM TO WALK IN THE SINS OF JEROBOAM … AND HE WENT AND SERVED BAAL AND WORSHIPED HIM.

While Jeroboam setup Idols and said to his people, “HERE ARE YOUR GODS, O ISRAEL, WHICH BROUGHT YOU UP FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT” 1KI 12:28. Ahab straight out served a pagan so called god, baal and worshiped him!

Ps 115:4-8, Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. THEY HAVE MOUTHS, BUT THEY DO NOT SPEAK; EYES THEY HAVE, BUT THEY DO NOT SEE; THEY HAVE EARS, BUT THEY DO NOT HEAR; NOSES THEY HAVE, BUT THEY DO NOT SMELL; THEY HAVE HANDS, BUT THEY DO NOT HANDLE; FEET THEY HAVE, BUT THEY DO NOT WALK; Nor do they mutter through their throat. THOSE WHO MAKE THEM ARE LIKE THEM; SO IS EVERYONE WHO TRUSTS IN THEM.

THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD SERVE HIM! EVERYTHING ELSE IS THE WORK OF MENS HANDS SACRIFICING TO DEMONS 1COR 10:20

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1Kings 11, Solomon turns his heart!

1Ki 11:4, For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.

Deu 17:17, NEITHER SHALL HE MULTIPLY WIVES FOR HIMSELF, LEST HIS HEART TURN AWAY..

AS WITH ALL MANKIND; SOLOMON PROVED HIMSELF A SINNER AND HAS TURNED FROM FOLLOWING THE LORD!

1Ki 11:5-6, For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. SOLOMON DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND DID NOT FULLY FOLLOW THE LORD, AS DID HIS FATHER DAVID.

FOR ALL HIS WISDOM HE BECAME FOOLISH FOLLOWING OTHER, SO CALLED, GODS!

Pro 3:7, Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil. 

Isa 46:9-10, … For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH! HE KNOWS THE END FROM THE BEGINNING! SEEK AND OBEY HIM WHO IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!

Pro 3:5-6, Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

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1Samuel 7, Israel Repents!

1Sa 7:3, Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “IF YOU RETURN TO THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEARTS, then PUT AWAY THE FOREIGN gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the LORD, and SERVE HIM ONLY; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.” 

Samuel called for a nation-wide repentance. It had to start from within (YOUR HEARTS), then outward repentance! (PUT AWAY THE IDOLS)

1Sa 7:6, So they gathered together at Mizpah, DREW WATER, AND POURED IT OUT BEFORE THE LORD. AND THEY FASTED THAT DAY, AND SAID THERE, “WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD.” …

Lam 2:19, “Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord…

1Jn 1:9, IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

ISRAEL DIDN’T STOP WORSHIPING THE LORD, THEY ADDED IDOLS TO THEIR WORSHIP WHICH IS COMPLETELY WRONG! YOU CAN’T SERVE TWO MASTERS. THERE IS ONLY 1 GOD AND HE DESERVES OUR WORSHIP! HE IS THE LORD CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH OF ALL SEEN AND UNSEEN! HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED AND GLORIFIED! SERVE ONLY HIM!

Mat 6:24, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON.