After I posted a note about the latest anti-Christ conduct of Pope Francis (regarding Cardinal Burke), a friend asked, “How did we get to such a place?”
He asked a good question. How did we get to this place?
As it turns out, I just finished reading Joshua and am in the middle of Judges. Most students of the Bible know the accounts recorded in Judges run alongside those in the book of Joshua. That’s important to know because both books taken together offer us some important insights into our sin-nature and its effect on human behavior.
Over the years, as I’ve read those two books, I’ve often asked myself a similar question to my friend’s: “How did Israel – God's CHOSEN nation – how did they get to where they got? Having experienced the glorious miracles of the Exodus and then the DAILY miracles while they wandered 40 years in the wilderness – how did they get to the place we find them as recorded in Judges? How is it that God's Chosen so quickly ended up doing “what was right in their own eyes”?
Jeremiah tells us why: “Because the heart of Man is deceitful above all else and is desperately wicked.” (see Jeremiah 17:9)
But before we go pointing fingers at ancient Israel or at the current Pope, let me quickly add this: Every faithful man and woman of God MUST learn an important lesson from it all. And THIS is the lesson: It can happen to us.
Take a quick look at God's warning through the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:1-12:
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