Understanding Biblical Abominations

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Although in this lesson, I will not be bringing up the Apocrypha either. I'm just saying in future lessons, maybe, maybe not. I don't know. It just depends on where the spirit moves me. But this series is from the Tanakh only, which means it's only Old Testament. Okay. We'll go. We'll have our Torah portion and then we'll go into the prophets as well. But we will not be going into the New Testament for this lesson. OK, so without any further ado, the title of this lesson is called Abominations Unto the Lord. And so what we're going to do is we're going to look at what does the Most High consider abominations. Now, there's more than just one thing, but there is a big three. There's a main three that you're going to see as a theme throughout the Tanakh that it's considered abomination, abomination, abomination. But. there are a few other things which we will point out that are an abomination unto the most high because it's not just one thing that he considers an abomination there's a number of things there's a plethora of things but we're gonna point out the big three and as we go along we'll point out a few other things that is considered an abomination how does one become abominable what's considered abominable is your actions is it something that you eat is it something that you say something that you do. What is an abomination? But we're going to let the scriptures bear that out. With that being in mind, please join me over in Exodus chapter 8. Exodus chapter 8. And when you get to Exodus chapter 8, I would like to pick it up at verse 23. Exodus chapter 8 and verse 23 and let the Bible speak, if you will. And I will put a division between my people and thy people. Tomorrow shall this sign be. And the Lord did so. And there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants'houses, and into all the land of Egypt. Okay. And Moses said, it is not me so to do. for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians Lord our God shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes and will they not stone us mmm go ahead finish at 27 we will go three days journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as he shall command us okay that's all we want with that see one of the things that Moses was saying right away is that we can't do even though Pharaoh said okay you go and sacrifice unto your God he said well no no no not like this we got to do it a little bit different okay the Lord of uh the Lord God of Israel he works a little bit different so he said we we can't do that in 25 Pharaoh said call for Moses and for Aaron and say go you sacrifice to the God in the land okay in the the land, right? And then he says, and Moses said, it is not me. It's not suitable. So to do, okay, this is not fit for us to do that. For we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord, our God. He said, nah, we're not going to do that. Lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes? And will they not stone? I'd say it's not going to happen. Okay. We're not going to sacrifice to our God in. The Egyptian land, okay, right here where they can see us and stuff, our God didn't go for that. We can't do that. And we're not going to do that to kind of mix and pollute, you know. Basically, it's a form of idolatry to begin with. mix and pollute what is holy with the profane or with the idolatrous okay so that's why moses was like no we cannot do that not gonna happen go to the next uh book leviticus as we continue with our torah portion of what is uh an abomination so go to leviticus chapter seven leviticus chapter seven okay we want to look at this and we want to pick it up In verse 7 Leviticus chapter 7 verse 7 so 7 and 7 As the sin offering is so is the trespass offering So we're talking about the two things the sin offering and the trespass offering They're saying that it's pretty much similar. It's pretty much the same. Go ahead. There is what? There is one law for them. The priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it. And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering that he hath offered. What else? And all the meat offering that is based on the flesh. Go ahead. Go ahead. And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings. He shall offer unto the Lord if he offer it for a Thanksgiving then he shall offer with the sacrifice of Thanksgiving and loving case being good Boy, I'm loving wait for his anointed anointed with oil cakes mingle with oil and fine flour fried. Yes Besides the case he shall offer for his offering lemon bread with the sacrifice of Thanksgiving of his peace offering. Mm-hmm And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation, for an heave offering unto the Lord. And it shall be the priest that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offering. And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings that for thanksgiving shall be even the same day that it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. What else? But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow or a voluntary offering. It shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice. What else? And on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten. So what we understand and what we're reading is that how, first of all, we understand what type of sacrifice we're talking about. We're talking about the sin offering, the trespass offering, and the peace offering, okay, that he was talking about in verse 15. So we're talking about the different offerings and he's saying, okay, what it is and how they're supposed to go about it, okay? Now we go to a violate that you're going to understand that the Most High has a problem with that. God has a problem with it when you violate his instructions of how he wants you to present offerings to him. Verse 17. Let the Bible speak. But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire. And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his piece of offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted. Neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it. It shall be an abomination. and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity. So let me ask you guys something. So that means you can't have this whole thing, oh, you serve God your way, I serve him my way, and we'll meet up in the middle, something like that. No, you're supposed to do it the way he prescribed it, right? Okay, because he said if you don't do it the way I said it, then it won't be accepted. We can't do that. He said we're not doing it. In 18 he said, and if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering be eaten at all on the... third day so three days later it shall not be accepted so you can't say well i can just do whatever i want to do he said it won't be accepted okay it shall it shall not be accepted neither shall it be imputed unto him that offered it meaning it's not going to count so you're doing it for nothing you want to do it your way you're doing it for nothing it's not it doesn't work that way it shall be an abomination and the soul of the person that eat of it shall bear his iniquity so you're doing it to get forgiveness and you know i'm just gonna do it this way you know it's kind of like cain he offered his sacrifice and the lord didn't accept it right you can't that that should tell you right there and right here that you can't do it the way you want to do it because the lord he's not gonna accept it he's like no no you know and right here you're trying to get it so your sins can be forgiven because they said and the one that eat it he shall bear his iniquity meaning yeah you you you still bearing your iniquity your iniquity is still upon you. You still have a price to pay because what you just did doesn't count. That's what it's saying, right? Okay, so verse 19. Go ahead. Let's do 19 and 20. And the flesh that touches the idiot. Okay, 20. Yeah, he's not going to make it. You cannot do it. You can't do it the way you want to do it. You got to do it the way he prescribed. It's really that simple. It's that simple, but y'all see what's an abomination, okay? He said, it shall be abomin-This is an offering that got-If you ate it on the third-Three days later, if you eat it- Now it's abomination. See, it wasn't abomination to start with, but it became an abomination because you wanted to do it your way. Can't do that. Not good. We're still in Leviticus. We're still in our Torah portion, which is chapter 11. Leviticus chapter 11. That was Leviticus 7, 7 through 20. Now we're at Leviticus 11. We're starting at verse 10, and then we're going to jump around a little bit. Leviticus 11. Of course, you guys know this is where... the dietary law is contained, but we're not going to read the whole thing. We're going to jump around a little bit, but it's still all Leviticus 11. So we're going to start at verse 10. If you will, son, let the Bible speak. Verse 10. And now that I have not fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers of all that move in the waters And of any living thing which is in the waters that they shall be an abomination unto you Okay, they shall be even an abomination unto you. Ye shall not eat of their flesh But ye shall have their carcasses in Abomination, okay, it's their carcasses. It's an abomination that doesn't have fins and scales So now this is not oh they turn into an abomination. They're abomination to begin with And they don't have fins and scales, right? If they don't have fins and scales, it's an abomination to begin with. It don't matter. Okay? Right out the gate, it's an abomination if it doesn't have fins and scales. Verse 12, sir. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you. Okay? Does anybody really need an explanation for that? Okay? What else in 13? And these are they which ye shall have in it. Have an abomination among the among the fouls so which as a bird okay the things that that the fouls are there things that fly Which one of these are an abomination go ahead and say have an abomination among the fouls They shall what they shall not be eaten. They are an abomination and the asafrage. and the asafrage. Okay, so we have an idea of that. He started naming all the birds and things and stuff. He's going to go into vultures and the kites and ravens and bats and night hawks and cacaos and all that other stuff. So we can go there. We're going to skip all that. Drop down to verse 20. We'll start at 20. All fowls that creep going upon all four shall be an abomination unto you. Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet to leap withal. the earth okay even these of them ye may eat and the look the locust after his con and the ball locust after his kind and the beetle after his con and the grasshopper after his kind so you can do all that but what else but all other flying creeping things which which have four feet shall be an abomination unto you okay shall be an abomination unto you so i just want to show you guys what's an abomination what's not okay so we saw that when you don't do a sacrifice, when you offer up a sacrifice, peace, trespass, sin, any of those, if you don't do it the way it is prescribed, it becomes an abomination, right? It's a vain oblation, okay? It's an abomination. Now we're talking about something that you eat. And for the record, this is one of the big three as far as what's an abomination. One of the big three is food. And I'll point out the other two here in a second. But one of the big three is food, okay? And just to save you guys the suspense, it's going to be... Food, it's going to be adultery, and it's going to be idolatry. Those are the big three. Food, adultery, and idolatry. Okay? They're not the only ones. Let me make that clear for the record. They're not the only things because we just saw the first thing we saw was if something is not offered properly, okay, if you don't follow it the way it is described, then you're offering it wrong. If you eat on the wrong day. It's an abomination. It's wrong. Okay, so you have to get it the way it is prescribed, but we're still in Viticus 11. We're just going to jump up to verse 41. Okay, just go over to verse 41. We're looking at a little bit more of what's an abomination. 41, so we're still talking about food. Go ahead. And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination. It shall not be eaten. It shall not be eaten. So we cannot eat it. Go ahead, 42. Whatsoever goeth upon the belly and whatsoever goeth upon all four or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, then ye shall not eat. All the more feet and all that. You're talking about, you know, scorpions and spiders and, you know, centipedes and things like that because they had a lot of feet. You know what I mean? Follow what I'm saying? It's a whatsoever goeth. Upon the belly so we can't eat snakes, you know lizards things like that and whatsoever goeth upon all fours Or whatsoever has more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth Okay, what's common is, you know, if it creeps upon the earth There's gonna be common is like four legs or something like that four feet or whatever you tell my like an insect or something Like that, but if you got it has more than that so you talk about scorpion spider centipede so on and so forth Abominable, okay, so whatsoever that has more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth then shall ye not eat for they are what well they are abomination so we're going to go ahead and uh keep it pushing keep it moving we got one you know what we still have a little bit more a little bit more so let's go to leviticus 18 chapter 18 a little bit more in torah chapter 18 Okay, let me get to chapter 18. Go to verse 20 and let the Bible speak. Verse 18 and 20. Let the Bible speak. Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife to defile thyself with her. That is an Obama nation. You can't do that. Verse 21. So there go one. There's your adultery. Go ahead. And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire of Molech. Molech, uh-huh, you're right. Neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord. So I cannot sacrifice my children to Molech. Not cool, okay? Can't do that. Can't. Can't be with my neighbor's wife. Cannot sacrifice my children to Molech. Neither shall thou profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord. What does it say in 22? Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination. What else? neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith neither shalt any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto it is confusion okay so humans can't be with animals that's an abomination so we understand there's different things that's abominable so humans cannot lie carnally I mean you can have a pet some people get a little crazy a man cannot lie carnally with an animal do we understand that? Okay, so that's not too hard to understand. 24, what does it say in 24? Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things, for in all of these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you. Because the other nations have been doing this. You're not supposed to do it. 25? The land is to follow therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it. and the land itself Vomits out of her and having what else you shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments shall not commit any of these abominations Neither any of your own nation any stranger that sojourneth among you or anybody who rock with you. You cannot do that It's just like when you know, you're in community and say someone else who is not natural Israel or whatever and someone else wants to join in a grafted in Gentile or something like that or whatever can you have two sets of rules no they got to do they got to do what you do so if there's no no and I'm just because we just got you know Leviticus 11 if there is no pork to be in your community then the stranger can't have pork either in your community you can't say oh well they're stranger you know so you we can let them have it no no He said, even the one who sojourned among you. Okay. In verse 27. But why? He even gives us a reason why. See, sometimes the Most High doesn't give us a reason because he doesn't have to. But we should be thankful when he does give us a reason. One, he thinks it's an abomination. That's what we're talking about. So 27, what does it say? All these abominations have the men of the land done before you, and the land is defiled. The land is defiled. The land is defiled because you've done that. Go ahead. That the land spewed not you out also, when ye defiled it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you. Uh-huh, 29. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them, shall be cut off from among their people. Okay, so now we have an understanding. You see what's abominable, see? We understand sacrifices is abominable. I mean, well, mishandled. Okay sacrifices are abominable. If you don't do it exactly how it's prescribed, the way you're supposed to do it, you don't do it right, boom, it becomes abominable. We look at some animals right out the rip, right off the gate, they're abominable. And when you consume these things, it makes you abominable. Now, I'm not going to the New Testament, but we do understand that our body is a sort of or likened to a temple, right? And if we look at Jerusalem and we look at that temple, I know we don't have our temple now, I'm aware of that. But when we did have the temple or whatever, was it okay to sacrifice something abominable in the temple? So you cannot put anything abominable in your temple. That's the reason why. Why? Because it defiles you. And the things like, you sleep with your neighbor's wife, it defiles you. And when you do these things in the land, you defile the land. Defilement. Why? Because the Most High has a purpose for everything. Does that mean that a horse is evil? No. A pig is evil or anything that's in the sea that doesn't have fins and scales? No. They have a job and they have a purpose. But that purpose is not for you to put it in your mouth. Does it make sense? That's what he's saying. everything in its order everything in its place everything what it's intended to use for when you go against that now you defiled yourself or it or the land that's what that's the part that we have to get we have to understand that let's go to deuteronomy 17 if you will okay get a little bit more of this torah portion and then we'll move on deuteronomy chapter 17 i want to make it easy for you guys to follow that's why we're just moving forward through the bible you So, Deuteronomy chapter 17, chapter 17, alright, and when you get to chapter 17, brother, pick it up at verse 1 and let the Bible speak. Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullet or sheet wherein is blemished, or any evil flavoredness. For that is an abomination unto the Lord by God. He told you why. So when you do offer your bullock or anything, it cannot have a blemish. It has to be perfect. It has to be right. So you better raise your bullock right, and you better watch out for your bullock. He better be the first one of your herd, and you want to raise him and make sure he's without spot, without blemish. He's good. He's not sick. Everything is right with that bullock. Because if you don't, you're wasting your time. It is an abomination. Basically, he doesn't accept. anything abominable. He doesn't excuse it. You know, like we used to do with kids, you know, we want something so, so bad, we accidentally drop it on the ground, and then we try to apply a five-second rule or whatever. Nope. If it's abominable, he is not going to take it. Okay? Period. Okay? Verse two. Go ahead, brother. If there be found among you wherein any of thy... gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant, and hath gone and served other gods and worshipped them, either the sun or moon, or any of the hosts of heaven, which I have not commanded thee. And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and behold, it be true, and it being certain that such abomination is true. is wrought in Israel. What's going to happen? Then shall thou bring forth that man or that woman which hath committed the wicked thing unto thy gate, even the man or that woman, that and shall stone them with stones till they die. What? Wow. Okay, ladies, y'all want equal rights. Y'all want to be treated equally. He said man or woman, didn't he? Okay, you want equality. There you go. Man or woman that does that. Verse 6, and he said you're going to bring them to the gate and you're going to stone them to death. Verse 6, go ahead. At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death? But at the mouth of one witness, he shall not be put to death. You can't do it. He said, she said. Can't convict you, but he said, she said. It's got to be two or three people. Got to be two or better to say, yes, this person said that or done that, and that's it, you know. Otherwise, they're not going to be put to death. And the last one, verse 7, go ahead. The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people, so thou shalt put the evil away from among you. See, we're not even supposed to associate with that evil. We can't have that in our community. You can't even associate with these people. Oh, Brother Robert, are you saying, you know, we're supposed to stone people and stuff? Now, don't be silly. You know we can't. We're not even allowed to do that right now. Okay? And we're not in our land and we're not sovereign unto ourselves. So, here in America, you cannot do that. Okay? In this time. But the fact of the matter is, we are supposed to put, hey, excommunicate them out and say, you know what, if you're going to keep doing this... You catch your brother going in and out of another brother's wife's house or whatever, uh, no time for that. No time for that. I mean, that doesn't mean that the husband ain't gonna put hands on you. He still probably put hands on you. He just probably gonna stone you to death. You probably wish he did. Okay? So that's not, you know, so no, we don't do that. And then you, you're out of here. You're out of here. We can't have that. That's an abominable. Okay? So like he's saying, with all these things, don't do any of these things because these other nations did that. These other nations do that. They defile the land. It's not going to be well with thee. Don't do that. Okay? Let's go up one chapter. Go to chapter 18 in Deuteronomy. When you go to 18, we're still talking about Levites and Levitical laws and stuff like that, but start at verse 9 if you will brother 18 and 9 of Deuteronomy Thou art come into the land which the word thy God giveth thee Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations After the what of those nations? Abominations of those nations Go ahead brother There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire Or that use of divination Or an observer of time Or an enchanter or a witch Okay what else? Or a charmer or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. What else? For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord. See, now a person is abominable. And guess what? They didn't eat one single. This doesn't mean they ate a single piece of bacon or catfish. It's the things that they're doing. It's the practices that they're doing. He just put a divination observer of times. You know, astrology. We look at. our what they say are not our fortunes what's with with this with astrology with the zodiac that they we look at that or whatever this is an observer that's kind of an observer of time it's okay if you've been born from the point this time and that time you're a taurus and if you from this time to that time you're aries and this is your fortune for the day yeah you're gonna go out and you're gonna meet someone interesting you never said before and you never seen before and all that other stuff okay so that that's what they do okay or an enchanter okay or a witch or a charmer or a consulter with familiar spirits. That's when they do Ouija boards and seances and tell you what, you know, your dead aunt is saying, you know, from beyond the grave and all that other stuff, right? Can't do anything, but these people are abominations because it says, you know, or a familiar spirits or a wizard or a necromancer, that's the one talk to the dead, for all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord. And because what? In 12, verse 12, For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord. And because of these abominations, the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. For these nations which thou shalt possess hearken unto observers of times, unto diviners. But as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. Okay, so there's got to be some people out there that do it. You're not to do it. You know, you're not to do it. Dude wanted to, um, put his hands on me one time. It was at a fair or something like that. And they had a little, you know, little Christian booth and stuff like that. And they said, hey, you know, give you a free Bible and I want to pray on, pray over you and put your hands on and all that. I'm like, hey, oh, oh. I'm good. I'm good. I don't know who you, I don't know who you're praying to. I don't know what you're doing. It was like a half Bible. It was like a, you know how you get the Bible and it's like the New Testament and like just the Psalms, you know, stuff like that. It was a kind of a half, it wasn't even a whole Bible, you know, like a half a Bible and stuff. So, you know, I know what they're about. I came out of that. So I can't go back to them to help me have a connection to the Most High. Because we're gonna see, you know, in Proverbs, you know, in 28 or whatever, some people don't have their prayers heard. Is that true? Yes or no? Oh, yeah. Not everybody's prayers are answered. Some people can't get a prayer through. So, I'm like, no, no, I'm good. you pray for yourself i'm i'm okay i just wanted to check out this bible you were giving out you know because i i wanted to see you know i wanted to see and still gave me the bible it's okay but i mean like i said it wasn't even a full bible it was just you know new testament and psalms or gospel and psalms or something like that it wasn't it just wasn't a full the full bible or whatever so i'm like no no i'm good you go ahead and you know you whoever you're talking to you and him y'all have a nice little conversation so go ahead so we're gonna go to deuteronomy 25 you Let's go to Deuteronomy chapter 25 Okay, this is gonna be this will conclude our Torah portion after this part right here So Deuteronomy chapter 25 and when you get there brother Study verse 1. Let the Bible speak. If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and the judges may judge them, then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. Go ahead. And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. Do you guys understand that not everything that you do wrong... It's not always like a sin unto death. Y'all understand that, right? Okay? Sometimes some stuff can get you excommunicated. Some stuff can get you beaten like what we're talking about right here. Some stuff leads to death. But not everything is, oh, you messed up, gotta die. No. Sometimes you may be just unclean for 24 hours or 7 days or something like that. You see what I'm saying? It's not everything. You don't have to die. Everything doesn't kill you, okay? Every sin is not unto death. You know, it may be a transgression, but not... everything is unto death right here they're just adjudicating the matter okay they're just saying the judgment okay if there be a controversy between men that mean two people got to beef with each other or whatever right and they come unto the judgment okay they come into the elders and say hey look man this person did this the other person defended himself said no i didn't the judgment is that the judges they have to discern that matter they said that the judges may judge them and then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked so they're going to settle the matter when they settle the matter It shall be if the wicked man, whoever is guilty, be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down. So he's going to lie down in there. They usually lie down like on this stone or whatever or this pillar or whatever, because you're about to get beaten. OK, so you have to lie down on there and to be beaten before his face. OK, right. Right there in front of you, according to his fault, according to what he had done by a certain number. So now he's going to get beat. Verse three. What happened? Let's look at this beat. What happens? For his charge, he may get him. Do not go past 40 stripes. Go ahead. It means you went too far. Go ahead. What else? go in on to her and take her to him to wife and before and perform the duty of an husband's brother okay now it doesn't it didn't matter it didn't matter if the brother was married or not because we already know how Old Testament Hebrews got down so we already know that didn't even matter but if your brother died okay your brother died had a wife didn't have children or whatever you die boom she goes to the she goes to the brother and he is to perform the duties of a husband and we all know what that is right now he can refuse to do that now this is the leverite law now he can refuse to do that but look at what happens though he can refuse to do that if he wants to but look at verse six go ahead let's move on And it shall be that the firstborn which he beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead. Let his name be not put out of Israel. So you're supposed to keep that line going. Supposed to keep it going. Supposed to keep it going. Right out of, boom, you're supposed to keep that line going. It's kind of like, kind of sort of like Boaz, okay? when he took Ruth and, you know, just to keep that, you know, keep the line going and everything, okay? It was kind of sort of like that, but verse seven, go ahead. And if a man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders. He said, my husband's brother refuses to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel. I will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. So the wife, the widower, she got a beef. She's like, hey, look, hold up. She goes to the elders. She's like, wait, wait, wait. This dude right here, this is my husband's brother. He won't take me as a wife. He won't perform the duties as a husband. He won't raise up seed. He won't give me children or nothing like that. She's standing in front of the elders saying this. Okay, verse 8, brother, go ahead. And then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him. And if he stand to it and say, I would like not to take her. Okay, so first the elders say, look, man, what's going on, bro? You know what we do. Okay, you know how we do. You know the law. Look, this is what we do. Okay, this woman, your brother died, this woman doesn't have any children, you're supposed to make her your wife. What's the deal? I don't like her. I don't like her. My brother, he like whatever. I don't know if you want to be superficial or whatever. He like big women. I don't like big women. He like real skinny, skinny women. I don't like skinny women. I don't like light skin or whatever. I like dark chocolate. Whatever the case may be. I don't know. But for some reason, he don't like it. I don't know. She might have a stank attitude. I don't know. But for whatever reason, he said, and if he stand to it and say, I like not to take her. Verse 9, what happens in that, brother? Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders. And do what? And loose his shoe from off his foot and spit in his face. Spit in his face? Look at that. She gets to just spit in his face. Go ahead. And shall answer and say, so shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of him that hath his shoe loosed. Okay, so it's a bad thing. Okay, it's a Hebrew culture thing. It's a bad thing. So if the woman's saying, look, he won't even do, you couldn't be a good for nothing. Okay, you couldn't be a good for nothing. So now your name is going to be published in all Israel. that you didn't want to keep performing the duties of a husband according to the level right law. You didn't want to do that. You should get to spit in your face in front of everybody, in front of the elders, unloose your shoes, because you don't want to have responsibility. You don't want accountability. You don't want to do that. So it's a bad thing, okay? This is a bad thing. You got to go back to Hebrew culture, but that's a bad thing, okay? So verse 11, let's go ahead. Let's settle a matter of two guys fighting, okay? Two guys fighting in verse 11. Let's just say two guys fighting it. They think they throwing a fair one real quick. Go ahead Mmm and put it forth her hand and take it to him by the secret. Yeah, okay So if the woman so the woman she's ride or die and she wants to help her husband She's like, oh no, you know, you know do that to my husband or whatever and if she jump in the fight to fight the other guy and grab him by the secrets that's not good okay that's not good you can't go sorry ladies i know you want to help your man there's other ways to help him but you can't grab another man's secret okay so you got you got to let that go you can't you can't do that all right then verse 12 what does it say mmm you should not that you can't grab that's important you can't mess with another man's secret okay you can't do that all right get your hand cut off all right you don't you don't do that I'm just telling just telling you how it is okay just telling you how it is verse 13 what else There's weights and great and a small. See, what we're doing is we're seeing different things that qualifies as being an abomination. But we're gonna get there. But look at all the different things. The lever right, you don't want to do that. That's an abomination. If you don't want to do that, if you don't perform the duties of a wife. You handle a matter and you got a, you know, you receive 40 stripes and you don't want to exceed that. You know, you may have gone a little bit too far. Okay? if you know like i said if a woman die have no children and stuff like that we're working our way through all these things are not good now we're at 13 said thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights uh great and small so now remember we we're in an agricultural type society so when they did trade they did it by weight you give me so much of this i give you so much of that and you got to have a just weight okay things were made by a measured by weight You can't cheat somebody or defraud somebody. In verse 14. Thou shalt not have in thine house a devil. What else? The dog shall have a perfect and just way. And a perfect and just measure shall thou have. That thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. For all that do such things and all that do unrighteously are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. That's good. That's good. For all that do such things and all that do unrighteously are an abomination unto God. You make yourself abominable if you don't want to do a... according to what he says. You see? So now we just saw what the Torah told us what's abominable. And like I said at the beginning of the lesson, there are a number of things that are an abomination unto God. There's more than one thing, okay? But what we want to hit some of the highlights there, you know, some of the things that we don't think about very often, but we want to hit some of those highlights. But the big three, number one, we see that, hey, it can be food. OK, your sacrifices can be abominable. But we're talking about the big three, food, adultery and idolatry. The big three. There are others, but we're food, adultery. and idolatry okay that way the message is not lost that's why i want to reiterate now we're getting out of the torah and we're going to go ahead and get into the tanakh so let's Let's go with me to 1 Kings. 1 Kings. Okay? Go to 1 Kings and go to chapter 11 in 1 Kings. Chapter 11 in 1 Kings. So we can keep going. Still got a little bit of ground to cover. So 1 Kings chapter 11. And when we get to chapter 11, my good man, pick it up at verse 1. Let the Bible speak. Talking about Saul. The king Saul and the love made the strange women. Together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites. Of the nations concerning which the word is said unto the children of Israel, ye shall not go into them, neither shall they come in unto you. What? Why? For surely they will turn away your heart after their God. Oh, okay. So he did give us a reason. Go ahead. Solomon claimed unto these in love. And he had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. Concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. So now they stopped. Now he's starting to not serve the Most High God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And what happened in verse 4? Before it came to pass, when Solomon was old, His wife's turned away his heart after other God and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as Was the heart of David his father say on Solomon went after went after it as a rock as to read, uh-huh the goddess of this and after milk on milk on the abomination of the M&I. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord and went not fully after the Lord go ahead David his father read on then to Solomon good in high place and for Chemosh and the abomination of Moab and the hill that is before Jerusalem and for Moab the abomination of the children of Ammon and likewise did he for all his strange wives which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods and they were in Jerusalem guys so he was actually defiling the land defiling the temple putting another god and venerating another god by you know building monuments to him by you know by putting them in with his God, the God who came to him twice in a vision. And these other guys whom you've never heard of before, never done anything for you, never spoke to you, never gave you any power, never did any, never won a battle for you, nothing. And you giving them, paying them homage by building them high places. Doesn't make much sense, right? But the one who has communicated with you through dreams of the prophets. you turning your back on them so in 70 said then did solomon build a high place to shemoth the abomination of moab in the hill that is before jerusalem right before jerusalem and for molek and the abomination of the children of amon in verse eight go ahead likewise did he for us wives which burnt in sin and sacrificed unto their gods. He did it. Go ahead. And the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel which had appeared upon him twice. Whoa. So the Most High of Heaven appeared to you twice. So you got evidence. You got something. The other guys, you got nothing. Verse 10. And I commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods, but he kept not that which the Lord commanded. All these guys, abominations, you serving these. First of all, abomination unto the Lord vexes him, upsets him. OK, you know, it invokes his wrath. OK, he's upset. That is evil in the sight of the Most High. Okay, this gets him really upset. First you do that. So that's abominable. Then you make yourself abominable because you make your worship Abominable worshiping other gods that God's abominable and so are you if you're worshiping other gods? Because it upsets him it makes him mad Okay, he doesn't go after the other God. He goes after you for doing it, right? All these other guys, you know, some people say, oh, well, you know, they're angels. Yeah, he's going to deal with them later, but he's also mad at you. Okay? He's also mad at you. Go to 2 Kings. Let's go to the next chapter. Or the next book, I should say. 2 Kings. 2 Kings. And when you get to 2 Kings, go to chapter 21 of 2 Kings. Chapter 21 of 2 Kings. And wow, we've been starting at verse 1 a lot, and this will be no different. Let's start at verse 1, 2 Kings 21, verse 1. Let's get with Manasseh. Go ahead. Manasseh was 12 years old when he began to reign, and reigned 50 and 5 years in Jerusalem. Jerusalem and his mother's name was Hephzibah. Wait, what? Hephzibah. Hephzibah. Hephzibah. Okay, so you have Hephzibah. Now, he reigned for 55 years. He started at 12. He was a king in Israel at Jerusalem for 55 years. That's how long he reigned. In verse 2. Verse 2. And he did not did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. What did he do? After the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. What else? For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. and he reared up altars for Baal and made a grove as did Ahab, king of Israel, and worshipped all the hosts of heaven to serve them. All these stars and all that stuff. Go ahead. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. Okay, so he's serving sun, moon, stars, angels, everything but the God of Israel. But go ahead, verse 5. And he built... He built altars for all the hosts of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. And he made his son pass through the fire and observed times and used encampments and dealt with familiar spirits. wizards here are much wickedness in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger so he done much weakness wickedness in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger now did we read where you're not supposed to be looking at you know enchanters and wizards and spirits and all the other stuff because that's an abomination of the Lord and he did exactly that and I'm pretty sure there was a priest somewhere prophet somewhere at this time told him hey man even before he was king even said when he was a little boy I know he heard that hey you know we serve the God of Israel He knew where it was, but he did evil inside of God. He was a wicked king. He's a wicked, wicked king. But go ahead, verse 7. And he said, Well, I put my name forever Another will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their father only if they do observe to will observe to the according to do according to all that I have commanded and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded what else but they are harking to harken not and Manassas seduced them to do more evil than then did the nations whom the Lord destroyed me Children of Israel Manasseh he had them do even worse. He did worse than the heathens He did worse verse 10 and the Lord spake but speak by his servants the prophets saying Because man, I said king of Judah had done these abominations Wickedly above all that the that the hemorrhoids and did worse go ahead which were before him I have made Judah also to sin with his idol. What is he gonna do? Therefore? That's it the Lord God of Israel Behold I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah that whosoever heareth of it both his ears shall tingle And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab And I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth his dish Wipe the dish, yeah he's going to clean it up Talk about some house cleaning, he's going to wipe the dish, wiping it what? Wiping it and turning it upside down When you do that, there's nothing left. It's kind of like another picture of it's desolate. So if you take a plate and then you wipe it off and you turn it upside down, there's nothing on that plate. It's clean. It's nothing. It's gone. Nothing. So he said, I'm going to wipe out Israel because of the abominations. OK, because of the abominations. And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. They shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies. And then 15, our last verse 15, because what? Because they have done that which was evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger. Since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day. And even unto this day are we committing abominations. Okay? Now, we try not to do it here. Okay? We certainly don't teach it, but I'm just saying there's people out there. If we know that idol worship is idolatry, then we know there's some people out there doing things abominable. Some people do things abominable. like worshiping other idols have our little graven images we used to walk around with our little crosses and stuff and i have a little jesus fish on our car and used to do all those things okay we used to do all those things but we know that we shall not worship our god like the other nations worship their god we can't do it the way other people do it that's what we do we throw away our heritage we throw we throw away what makes us unique we throw away what makes us peculiar how are you unique and peculiar If you do exactly what everybody else does. How are you any different? That's the things that we got to consider. He said don't do what the other nations do. Join me in Ezra chapter 9. Ezra chapter 9 should be the next book or after first and second chronicles but Ezra chapter 9. And once again, when we get to chapter 9, we're going to pick it up at verse 1. You got me. You figured me out. You figured out the pattern. You got it. Okay, we're going to start at verse 1. Let's go to verse 1. He broke the code. Now, when these things were done, the princes came to me saying, the people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have now separated themselves from the people of the land, doing according to their own. their abominations, even other Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, the Boabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. Okay, so he said they didn't separate themselves. They're not any different. They're doing exactly what they're doing. He said it came to the people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, doing according to what these other people are doing. with their God okay verse 2 go ahead for they have taken other of their daughters for themselves and for their son so that the Holy See to have mingled themselves with the people of those land mmm yeah the hand of the princes and rulers have been chief in his trespass even the hands of the princes and the rulers meaning the prophets and priests and all that stuff you know Reverend dr. Bishop after priest he doing this you know he you know why he don't correct you because he doing the same thing he doing what you're doing That's why he don't say anything. Okay? He said, even at the hand of the princes and the rulers have been chief in the... First one out there to do it. First one out there to do it. Verse 3. Go ahead. And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment in my mantle. And plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard. And sat down astonished. Astonished. Yeah. So he was basically astonished. Okay? He was surprised. He sat down and shook his head. He's like, man. Go ahead. Verse 4. Then were assembled unto me everyone that trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of the transgression. of those that had been carried away. And I sat with Stani until the evening sacrifice. And at the evening sacrifice I arose from my head, and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees and spread out my hands. Okay, no problem. Let me go ahead and give you guys a little picture. Now, the evening sacrifice, they did sacrifice pretty much every day. Okay, they did sacrifices all the time. nothing new right but one of the things he felt particularly bad sometime when they lament or when someone dies or something like that there is a custom not a lot but there's a custom where you ring your clothes when you just tear your clothes sometimes if you look at the habit it's over at Nineveh and in other places but you look at the habit it's over at Nineveh whatever they put a sackcloth on and ashes it's a symbol of being in mourning Okay, and we got to remember they did that in the Lord repented of the evil that he was gonna do to them because he saw Their posture he saw their heart he saw what they were doing. So they got sackcloth and ashes They set aside a fast over here, you know, we're talking about the priest over here Ezra He said and having rent my garment and my mantle so he took that belt like object off. He took that off He tore his clothes. I fell upon my knees Spread out my hands unto the Lord. So they're reaching out towards the heavens either palms out palms in it doesn't matter They're just trying to he's trying to entreat the Lord because Israel had messed up so bad and had been messing up for so bad for so long. And what happened in verse six? And said, oh, my God, I am ashamed and blushed to lift up my face to thee. So he didn't want to look up. Go ahead. My God, for our iniquities are increased over our head. The trespass has grown and grown up onto the heavens. We're just piling on sin, sin after sin after sin, piling it all on. What else? Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day, and for our iniquities have we, our kings and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the land, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of faith, as it is this day. Same as this day. Go ahead. And now for a little space, grace hath been showed from the Lord our God to leave us a ring. to escape and to give us a nail in his holy place that our God may lighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage for we have bondmen yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage that hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, and to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah. and in Jerusalem. And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken thy commandments, which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land unto which ye go to possess it is an unclean land, with the filthiness of the people of the land, with their abominations, which have fulfilled it from one end to another with their uncleanness. Abomination, uncleanness, get that, go ahead, 12, go ahead. Now therefore give not your... are your daughters unto their sons mhm not a team, they're their daughters unto your sons nor seek their their peace or their wealth forever that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inherit for an inheritance to our your children forever what else and after all that has come upon us for our equal day deeds and for our great trespass seeing that thou our god has punished us less than our iniquities deserved and has given us such deliverance as this Should we again break the commandments and join in affinity? With the affinity with the people of these abominations. So he's asking a question, really. He says, should we again break the commandments and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? What is what? What is not thou be angry with us till thou hast consumed us? So that there should be no remnant nor escape. Go ahead. Oh Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous, for we remain yet escaped. As it is this day, behold, we are before thee in our trespasses, for we cannot stand before thee because of this. Okay, so he's just saying our trespasses, our abominations and stuff is so great. He's praying out. He's praying like, God, don't, you know, don't utterly destroy us. Don't just wipe us off the map, even though we deserve it. Even though we did indeed mess up. See, that's another thing when you pray, you know, people. They don't they think they can kind of finagle with God. OK, instead of just falling on your sword is I messed up. I sinned against you. And then whatever the punishment is, whatever the law, you know, it feels unto death or whatever the case may be. You say, hey, I deserve that. Lord, if you wanted to punish me, whatever I got coming, I deserve that. But I'm begging you for mercy. You understand. OK, so that's what I'm saying. You own up to it. okay you own up to it don't play don't be playing around with it he already knows he already knows you got your dead to right there's nothing you can say to wiggle your way out of it he already has your dead to rights if you messed up there's nothing you can say so you might as well own it fall on your sword repent okay be like ezra is doing you read psalms you see what david done david never said i never done nothing wrong lord i don't see what the big deal that was not his attitude and if you think that you never read the psalms so we that so that's not how you do it now this lesson is about you know praying or anything like that, but we always can learn something on our way to learning something. But this is because of the abominations that they were doing. All the customs that they were adopting from the other nations, from the heathens and stuff. Oh, let's see what they doing. Like he says, you know, in Deuteronomy, he said, you know, so that you go inquire after their gods. Figure out, oh, how do we worship this other God? What is it that these other people do? Let's do that. And it says, no, we don't do it that way. That's why Moses said, no, Pharaoh, we can't do it here. We can't do it. Do what y'all do. No, we're going to go three days journey out into the wilderness somewhere, and then we'll offer sacrifice out there. We got to go three days out, and then we'll do it. How committed are you and I to trying to get this right? And again, when I say one of the big three, idolatry. adultery idolatry and food now let's watch this though guys watch this go to um go to uh ezekiel okay i want to finish up here go to ezekiel i'm gonna go two more places and then we'll finish up here ezekiel 33 go with me to ezekiel 33 let's go to our last last two places ezekiel 33 I'm going to show you something on this one. 33 in verse 23. 33 23. Get there. Let the Bible speak. Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, And they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak saying Abraham was one and he inherited the land but we are many the land is given us for inheritance. Go forth say unto them that say for Lord God ye eat with the blood and lift up your your eyes toward your idols, and she bleed and shed blood, and shall ye possess the land. Oh, okay. Now, we're looking at it now. I want you guys to pay particular attention, okay, to these two verses, to what he just read. He, 25, so I want you guys to pay attention to 25 and 26, which is the reason why we're here. But look at, he just read 25, and now I'm going to have him read 26. Now, 25, it says, wherefore... Say unto them that saith the Lord God, ye eat with the blood, which that's a sin. We can't eat the blood. That's why we don't eat rare steaks. We don't eat with the blood. And lift up your eyes towards your idols, serving idols, and shed blood. And shall ye possess the land? Verse 26. What does that say? Ye stand upon your sword. Ye work abomination. And ye defile every one of his neighbor's wife, and shall ye possess the land. And shall you possess the land. We just brought up the big three. I said food, idolatry, and adultery. Did we not get all three of those in these two verses? Oh yeah. And he said these are abominations, so I'm going to hit you with it one more time. He said 25, wherefore say unto them that said the Lord God ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes towards idols, that's two, and shed blood. And ye shall possess the... He basically saying, will you possess the land? In 26, he said, and you stand upon your sword. Ye work abomination, and ye defile everyone his neighbor's wife. And shall you possess the land? He asked another question. Pick three. Food, adultery, and adultery. 27, go ahead. You say that I've done something to them. Thus saith the Lord God, as I live, surely they that are in the waste shall fall by the sword. And him that is in the open field will I give to the beast to be devoured. And they that be in the forest and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease. And the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, and they shall pass through. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate. desolate before because the what of all their abominations they have committed that's all we need that's all we need all the abomination he named three of them that I've told I told you guys there's a big three name all three of those two little passengers 25 and 26 name all three of them because you can go back into the law where it says you know you don't eat with the blood Okay, well even even even when they were sacrificing lambs and stuff like that They had to drain all the blood out of what you can't eat the blood we get a steak rare Tartar it just touch heat. It's okay. I want that. No can't do that Can't do that, but he named all three right there You know like I said years ago the comedian was talking about oh, I doubt God cares by anything what you put in your mouth I beg to differ. I think he does care He talks about it, so we must care. Let's go to our last place. 2 Chronicles. Let's see what we should do. 2 Chronicles. And it's going to be chapter 34 when we get there. 2 Chronicles chapter 34. Let's finish up over here. And when we get to 2 Chronicles chapter 34, let's pick it up at verse 21. And we're going to do 21 to 33 to finish it out. 2 Chronicles chapter 34, verse 21. And we'll stop at 33. 21, go ahead. Go and inquire of the Lord for me, for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found. For great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not. not kept the word of the Lord. To do all after that is written in the book. Okay, what else? And they that the king had appointed went to hold. and upon and upon the inhabitants thereof go ahead even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah because they have forsaken me and have burned incense unto other gods they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place and shall not be quenched and as for the king of Judah who sent you to impart the Lord so shall ye say unto him the Lord God of Israel concerning the words that which which thou hast heard mm-hmm because my heart was tender and thou didst humble thyself before God mm-hmm when thou heardest and heardest his words against this place and against the inhabitants thereof and humbled thyself before me and didst wring my clothes and weep before me I have even heard thee also say the Lord what else behold I will gather thee of thy father and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace. Now there shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king a word again. Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. What did he do? And the king went up into the house of the Lord and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites and all the people great and small. and have read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord. And what happened? And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimony and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book. I told you guys the covenant, the Torah, that is the covenant. I told you. What other book were they reading? What other book were they reading? We're in 2 Chronicles. Okay, go ahead. 32. And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And then having said Jerusalem, did according to the covenant of God and God of their fathers. And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertain to the children of Israel. And made all that were present in Israel to serve. Even to serve the Lord their God. What? What? And all his days they departed not from following the Lord, the God of their fathers. See? They got rid of all the abominations. They got the agreement. A covenant means agreement, right? So they got that agreement, that covenant, Torah. I gave you the Torah portion first. They got the Torah. They read it. They were like, okay, look here. Oh man, look at all we're supposed to do. And when you go to the quote unquote, the 10 commandments, you don't have any gods before him. So when they got to that part in Exodus, they're like, wait a minute. Okay. And now we know that wasn't broke up by verse and chapter and stuff like that. So when they read, they read a lot. Okay. They read a lot. So they're just like, Oh, we, okay. We look out our window over here. We got this statue for this God and we got the God of the Zidonians and the Amorites and the Jebusites and the Hittites and all that. We have everybody. We got a monument and statues and stuff like that. We got all that over there. And then he said in 32 and he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. They had to stick to it. And all the inhabitants of Jerusalem did it according to the covenant of God. So you know what they had. than a god of their fathers and what did josiah do josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of israel so if israel owned it they got rid of that abomination that's what we're supposed to do you're supposed to get rid of that abomination okay sorry can't have that and that's it these things are abominable so what so we know what the big three is It's a good place to start. You're doing pretty good if you knock out these big three and then work on the other ones later. I got a lot more scriptures. Tom did not permit me to get to them, but you know the big three. Watch what you eat, watch whom you pray to, and stay away from your neighbor's wife. Start there and then build from there. Start there and then progress. Handles those big three there's somewhere to start. Oh, we can't keep all that law. We can't keep them all at the same time But you can work on it You can work on it. These things are abominable. It makes you abominable it upsets the most high It is a smoke in his nose. He makes it makes him particularly angry with you particularly So you have an opportunity to understand what an abomination is and how the Most High feels about it. Now you have the power to do something about it. And with that, I hope somebody has been edified by this lesson. This has been a Tanakh only lesson. Abominations unto God. Shalom Israel. See you guys next time.

So until next time Cue the music. All praises to the Most High God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Peace to everyone joining us on this program.

This is the Fountain of Israel's Bible Studies program. And today's lesson is entitled Abominations Unto the Lord. Abominations Unto the Lord.

And this is going to start off a new series that I'm going to have for the Fountain of Israel YouTube channel. So when you go to the playlist, you're going to see one. It may be entitled Tanakh Only. which means I'm only going to be teaching from the Old Testament. That's it.

I will have no New Testament references whatsoever in here. We consider the Apocrypha to be like neutral ground. Although in this lesson, I will not be bringing up the Apocrypha either. I'm just saying in future lessons, maybe, maybe not.

I don't know. It just depends on where the spirit moves me. But this series is from the Tanakh only, which means it's only Old Testament. Okay. We'll go.

We'll have our Torah portion and then we'll go into the prophets as well. But we will not be going into the New Testament for this lesson. OK, so without any further ado, the title of this lesson is called Abominations Unto the Lord. And so what we're going to do is we're going to look at what does the Most High consider abominations.

Now, there's more than just one thing, but there is a big three. There's a main three that you're going to see as a theme throughout the Tanakh that it's considered abomination, abomination, abomination. But.

there are a few other things which we will point out that are an abomination unto the most high because it's not just one thing that he considers an abomination there's a number of things there's a plethora of things but we're gonna point out the big three and as we go along we'll point out a few other things that is considered an abomination how does one become abominable what's considered abominable is your actions is it something that you eat is it something that you say something that you do. What is an abomination? But we're going to let the scriptures bear that out.

With that being in mind, please join me over in Exodus chapter 8. Exodus chapter 8. And when you get to Exodus chapter 8, I would like to pick it up at verse 23. Exodus chapter 8 and verse 23 and let the Bible speak, if you will. And I will put a division between my people and thy people. Tomorrow shall this sign be.

And the Lord did so. And there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants'houses, and into all the land of Egypt. Okay.

And Moses said, it is not me so to do. for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians Lord our God shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes and will they not stone us mmm go ahead finish at 27 we will go three days journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as he shall command us okay that's all we want with that see one of the things that Moses was saying right away is that we can't do even though Pharaoh said okay you go and sacrifice unto your God he said well no no no not like this we got to do it a little bit different okay the Lord of uh the Lord God of Israel he works a little bit different so he said we we can't do that in 25 Pharaoh said call for Moses and for Aaron and say go you sacrifice to the God in the land okay in the the land, right? And then he says, and Moses said, it is not me.

It's not suitable. So to do, okay, this is not fit for us to do that. For we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord, our God. He said, nah, we're not going to do that.

Lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes? And will they not stone? I'd say it's not going to happen. Okay.

We're not going to sacrifice to our God in. The Egyptian land, okay, right here where they can see us and stuff, our God didn't go for that. We can't do that. And we're not going to do that to kind of mix and pollute, you know.

Basically, it's a form of idolatry to begin with. mix and pollute what is holy with the profane or with the idolatrous okay so that's why moses was like no we cannot do that not gonna happen go to the next uh book leviticus as we continue with our torah portion of what is uh an abomination so go to leviticus chapter seven leviticus chapter seven okay we want to look at this and we want to pick it up In verse 7 Leviticus chapter 7 verse 7 so 7 and 7 As the sin offering is so is the trespass offering So we're talking about the two things the sin offering and the trespass offering They're saying that it's pretty much similar. It's pretty much the same.

Go ahead. There is what? There is one law for them. The priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.

And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering that he hath offered. What else? And all the meat offering that is based on the flesh.

Go ahead. Go ahead. And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings.

He shall offer unto the Lord if he offer it for a Thanksgiving then he shall offer with the sacrifice of Thanksgiving and loving case being good Boy, I'm loving wait for his anointed anointed with oil cakes mingle with oil and fine flour fried. Yes Besides the case he shall offer for his offering lemon bread with the sacrifice of Thanksgiving of his peace offering. Mm-hmm And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation, for an heave offering unto the Lord.

And it shall be the priest that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offering. And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings that for thanksgiving shall be even the same day that it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.

What else? But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow or a voluntary offering. It shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice.

What else? And on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten. So what we understand and what we're reading is that how, first of all, we understand what type of sacrifice we're talking about. We're talking about the sin offering, the trespass offering, and the peace offering, okay, that he was talking about in verse 15. So we're talking about the different offerings and he's saying, okay, what it is and how they're supposed to go about it, okay?

Now we go to a violate that you're going to understand that the Most High has a problem with that. God has a problem with it when you violate his instructions of how he wants you to present offerings to him. Verse 17. Let the Bible speak.

But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire. And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his piece of offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted. Neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it. It shall be an abomination.

and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity. So let me ask you guys something. So that means you can't have this whole thing, oh, you serve God your way, I serve him my way, and we'll meet up in the middle, something like that.

No, you're supposed to do it the way he prescribed it, right? Okay, because he said if you don't do it the way I said it, then it won't be accepted. We can't do that. He said we're not doing it.

In 18 he said, and if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering be eaten at all on the... third day so three days later it shall not be accepted so you can't say well i can just do whatever i want to do he said it won't be accepted okay it shall it shall not be accepted neither shall it be imputed unto him that offered it meaning it's not going to count so you're doing it for nothing you want to do it your way you're doing it for nothing it's not it doesn't work that way it shall be an abomination and the soul of the person that eat of it shall bear his iniquity so you're doing it to get forgiveness and you know i'm just gonna do it this way you know it's kind of like cain he offered his sacrifice and the lord didn't accept it right you can't that that should tell you right there and right here that you can't do it the way you want to do it because the lord he's not gonna accept it he's like no no you know and right here you're trying to get it so your sins can be forgiven because they said and the one that eat it he shall bear his iniquity meaning yeah you you you still bearing your iniquity your iniquity is still upon you. You still have a price to pay because what you just did doesn't count.

That's what it's saying, right? Okay, so verse 19. Go ahead. Let's do 19 and 20. And the flesh that touches the idiot.

Okay, 20. Yeah, he's not going to make it. You cannot do it. You can't do it the way you want to do it.

You got to do it the way he prescribed. It's really that simple. It's that simple, but y'all see what's an abomination, okay?

He said, it shall be abomin-This is an offering that got-If you ate it on the third-Three days later, if you eat it- Now it's abomination. See, it wasn't abomination to start with, but it became an abomination because you wanted to do it your way. Can't do that. Not good. We're still in Leviticus.

We're still in our Torah portion, which is chapter 11. Leviticus chapter 11. That was Leviticus 7, 7 through 20. Now we're at Leviticus 11. We're starting at verse 10, and then we're going to jump around a little bit. Leviticus 11. Of course, you guys know this is where... the dietary law is contained, but we're not going to read the whole thing.

We're going to jump around a little bit, but it's still all Leviticus 11. So we're going to start at verse 10. If you will, son, let the Bible speak. Verse 10. And now that I have not fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers of all that move in the waters And of any living thing which is in the waters that they shall be an abomination unto you Okay, they shall be even an abomination unto you. Ye shall not eat of their flesh But ye shall have their carcasses in Abomination, okay, it's their carcasses. It's an abomination that doesn't have fins and scales So now this is not oh they turn into an abomination. They're abomination to begin with And they don't have fins and scales, right?

If they don't have fins and scales, it's an abomination to begin with. It don't matter. Okay? Right out the gate, it's an abomination if it doesn't have fins and scales. Verse 12, sir.

Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you. Okay? Does anybody really need an explanation for that?

Okay? What else in 13? And these are they which ye shall have in it. Have an abomination among the among the fouls so which as a bird okay the things that that the fouls are there things that fly Which one of these are an abomination go ahead and say have an abomination among the fouls They shall what they shall not be eaten. They are an abomination and the asafrage.

and the asafrage. Okay, so we have an idea of that. He started naming all the birds and things and stuff.

He's going to go into vultures and the kites and ravens and bats and night hawks and cacaos and all that other stuff. So we can go there. We're going to skip all that. Drop down to verse 20. We'll start at 20. All fowls that creep going upon all four shall be an abomination unto you.

Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet to leap withal. the earth okay even these of them ye may eat and the look the locust after his con and the ball locust after his kind and the beetle after his con and the grasshopper after his kind so you can do all that but what else but all other flying creeping things which which have four feet shall be an abomination unto you okay shall be an abomination unto you so i just want to show you guys what's an abomination what's not okay so we saw that when you don't do a sacrifice, when you offer up a sacrifice, peace, trespass, sin, any of those, if you don't do it the way it is prescribed, it becomes an abomination, right? It's a vain oblation, okay?

It's an abomination. Now we're talking about something that you eat. And for the record, this is one of the big three as far as what's an abomination.

One of the big three is food. And I'll point out the other two here in a second. But one of the big three is food, okay? And just to save you guys the suspense, it's going to be... Food, it's going to be adultery, and it's going to be idolatry.

Those are the big three. Food, adultery, and idolatry. Okay?

They're not the only ones. Let me make that clear for the record. They're not the only things because we just saw the first thing we saw was if something is not offered properly, okay, if you don't follow it the way it is described, then you're offering it wrong. If you eat on the wrong day. It's an abomination.

It's wrong. Okay, so you have to get it the way it is prescribed, but we're still in Viticus 11. We're just going to jump up to verse 41. Okay, just go over to verse 41. We're looking at a little bit more of what's an abomination. 41, so we're still talking about food.

Go ahead. And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination. It shall not be eaten. It shall not be eaten.

So we cannot eat it. Go ahead, 42. Whatsoever goeth upon the belly and whatsoever goeth upon all four or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, then ye shall not eat. All the more feet and all that. You're talking about, you know, scorpions and spiders and, you know, centipedes and things like that because they had a lot of feet. You know what I mean?

Follow what I'm saying? It's a whatsoever goeth. Upon the belly so we can't eat snakes, you know lizards things like that and whatsoever goeth upon all fours Or whatsoever has more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth Okay, what's common is, you know, if it creeps upon the earth There's gonna be common is like four legs or something like that four feet or whatever you tell my like an insect or something Like that, but if you got it has more than that so you talk about scorpion spider centipede so on and so forth Abominable, okay, so whatsoever that has more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth then shall ye not eat for they are what well they are abomination so we're going to go ahead and uh keep it pushing keep it moving we got one you know what we still have a little bit more a little bit more so let's go to leviticus 18 chapter 18 a little bit more in torah chapter 18 Okay, let me get to chapter 18. Go to verse 20 and let the Bible speak. Verse 18 and 20. Let the Bible speak.

Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife to defile thyself with her. That is an Obama nation. You can't do that.

Verse 21. So there go one. There's your adultery. Go ahead.

And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire of Molech. Molech, uh-huh, you're right. Neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord.

So I cannot sacrifice my children to Molech. Not cool, okay? Can't do that. Can't.

Can't be with my neighbor's wife. Cannot sacrifice my children to Molech. Neither shall thou profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord. What does it say in 22?

Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination. What else? neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith neither shalt any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto it is confusion okay so humans can't be with animals that's an abomination so we understand there's different things that's abominable so humans cannot lie carnally I mean you can have a pet some people get a little crazy a man cannot lie carnally with an animal do we understand that?

Okay, so that's not too hard to understand. 24, what does it say in 24? Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things, for in all of these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

Because the other nations have been doing this. You're not supposed to do it. 25?

The land is to follow therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it. and the land itself Vomits out of her and having what else you shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments shall not commit any of these abominations Neither any of your own nation any stranger that sojourneth among you or anybody who rock with you. You cannot do that It's just like when you know, you're in community and say someone else who is not natural Israel or whatever and someone else wants to join in a grafted in Gentile or something like that or whatever can you have two sets of rules no they got to do they got to do what you do so if there's no no and I'm just because we just got you know Leviticus 11 if there is no pork to be in your community then the stranger can't have pork either in your community you can't say oh well they're stranger you know so you we can let them have it no no He said, even the one who sojourned among you. Okay.

In verse 27. But why? He even gives us a reason why. See, sometimes the Most High doesn't give us a reason because he doesn't have to.

But we should be thankful when he does give us a reason. One, he thinks it's an abomination. That's what we're talking about.

So 27, what does it say? All these abominations have the men of the land done before you, and the land is defiled. The land is defiled.

The land is defiled because you've done that. Go ahead. That the land spewed not you out also, when ye defiled it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.

Uh-huh, 29. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them, shall be cut off from among their people. Okay, so now we have an understanding. You see what's abominable, see? We understand sacrifices is abominable.

I mean, well, mishandled. Okay sacrifices are abominable. If you don't do it exactly how it's prescribed, the way you're supposed to do it, you don't do it right, boom, it becomes abominable. We look at some animals right out the rip, right off the gate, they're abominable.

And when you consume these things, it makes you abominable. Now, I'm not going to the New Testament, but we do understand that our body is a sort of or likened to a temple, right? And if we look at Jerusalem and we look at that temple, I know we don't have our temple now, I'm aware of that.

But when we did have the temple or whatever, was it okay to sacrifice something abominable in the temple? So you cannot put anything abominable in your temple. That's the reason why. Why? Because it defiles you.

And the things like, you sleep with your neighbor's wife, it defiles you. And when you do these things in the land, you defile the land. Defilement.

Why? Because the Most High has a purpose for everything. Does that mean that a horse is evil? No.

A pig is evil or anything that's in the sea that doesn't have fins and scales? No. They have a job and they have a purpose.

But that purpose is not for you to put it in your mouth. Does it make sense? That's what he's saying. everything in its order everything in its place everything what it's intended to use for when you go against that now you defiled yourself or it or the land that's what that's the part that we have to get we have to understand that let's go to deuteronomy 17 if you will okay get a little bit more of this torah portion and then we'll move on deuteronomy chapter 17 i want to make it easy for you guys to follow that's why we're just moving forward through the bible you So, Deuteronomy chapter 17, chapter 17, alright, and when you get to chapter 17, brother, pick it up at verse 1 and let the Bible speak. Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullet or sheet wherein is blemished, or any evil flavoredness.

For that is an abomination unto the Lord by God. He told you why. So when you do offer your bullock or anything, it cannot have a blemish. It has to be perfect.

It has to be right. So you better raise your bullock right, and you better watch out for your bullock. He better be the first one of your herd, and you want to raise him and make sure he's without spot, without blemish. He's good. He's not sick.

Everything is right with that bullock. Because if you don't, you're wasting your time. It is an abomination. Basically, he doesn't accept.

anything abominable. He doesn't excuse it. You know, like we used to do with kids, you know, we want something so, so bad, we accidentally drop it on the ground, and then we try to apply a five-second rule or whatever. Nope.

If it's abominable, he is not going to take it. Okay? Period.

Okay? Verse two. Go ahead, brother. If there be found among you wherein any of thy... gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant, and hath gone and served other gods and worshipped them, either the sun or moon, or any of the hosts of heaven, which I have not commanded thee.

And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and behold, it be true, and it being certain that such abomination is true. is wrought in Israel. What's going to happen?

Then shall thou bring forth that man or that woman which hath committed the wicked thing unto thy gate, even the man or that woman, that and shall stone them with stones till they die. What? Wow. Okay, ladies, y'all want equal rights.

Y'all want to be treated equally. He said man or woman, didn't he? Okay, you want equality. There you go.

Man or woman that does that. Verse 6, and he said you're going to bring them to the gate and you're going to stone them to death. Verse 6, go ahead. At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death? But at the mouth of one witness, he shall not be put to death.

You can't do it. He said, she said. Can't convict you, but he said, she said.

It's got to be two or three people. Got to be two or better to say, yes, this person said that or done that, and that's it, you know. Otherwise, they're not going to be put to death. And the last one, verse 7, go ahead.

The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people, so thou shalt put the evil away from among you. See, we're not even supposed to associate with that evil. We can't have that in our community.

You can't even associate with these people. Oh, Brother Robert, are you saying, you know, we're supposed to stone people and stuff? Now, don't be silly.

You know we can't. We're not even allowed to do that right now. Okay?

And we're not in our land and we're not sovereign unto ourselves. So, here in America, you cannot do that. Okay?

In this time. But the fact of the matter is, we are supposed to put, hey, excommunicate them out and say, you know what, if you're going to keep doing this... You catch your brother going in and out of another brother's wife's house or whatever, uh, no time for that.

No time for that. I mean, that doesn't mean that the husband ain't gonna put hands on you. He still probably put hands on you.

He just probably gonna stone you to death. You probably wish he did. Okay?

So that's not, you know, so no, we don't do that. And then you, you're out of here. You're out of here.

We can't have that. That's an abominable. Okay? So like he's saying, with all these things, don't do any of these things because these other nations did that.

These other nations do that. They defile the land. It's not going to be well with thee.

Don't do that. Okay? Let's go up one chapter. Go to chapter 18 in Deuteronomy. When you go to 18, we're still talking about Levites and Levitical laws and stuff like that, but start at verse 9 if you will brother 18 and 9 of Deuteronomy Thou art come into the land which the word thy God giveth thee Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations After the what of those nations?

Abominations of those nations Go ahead brother There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire Or that use of divination Or an observer of time Or an enchanter or a witch Okay what else? Or a charmer or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. What else?

For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord. See, now a person is abominable. And guess what?

They didn't eat one single. This doesn't mean they ate a single piece of bacon or catfish. It's the things that they're doing. It's the practices that they're doing.

He just put a divination observer of times. You know, astrology. We look at. our what they say are not our fortunes what's with with this with astrology with the zodiac that they we look at that or whatever this is an observer that's kind of an observer of time it's okay if you've been born from the point this time and that time you're a taurus and if you from this time to that time you're aries and this is your fortune for the day yeah you're gonna go out and you're gonna meet someone interesting you never said before and you never seen before and all that other stuff okay so that that's what they do okay or an enchanter okay or a witch or a charmer or a consulter with familiar spirits. That's when they do Ouija boards and seances and tell you what, you know, your dead aunt is saying, you know, from beyond the grave and all that other stuff, right?

Can't do anything, but these people are abominations because it says, you know, or a familiar spirits or a wizard or a necromancer, that's the one talk to the dead, for all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord. And because what? In 12, verse 12, For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord. And because of these abominations, the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.

For these nations which thou shalt possess hearken unto observers of times, unto diviners. But as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. Okay, so there's got to be some people out there that do it. You're not to do it. You know, you're not to do it.

Dude wanted to, um, put his hands on me one time. It was at a fair or something like that. And they had a little, you know, little Christian booth and stuff like that.

And they said, hey, you know, give you a free Bible and I want to pray on, pray over you and put your hands on and all that. I'm like, hey, oh, oh. I'm good.

I'm good. I don't know who you, I don't know who you're praying to. I don't know what you're doing. It was like a half Bible.

It was like a, you know how you get the Bible and it's like the New Testament and like just the Psalms, you know, stuff like that. It was a kind of a half, it wasn't even a whole Bible, you know, like a half a Bible and stuff. So, you know, I know what they're about. I came out of that. So I can't go back to them to help me have a connection to the Most High.

Because we're gonna see, you know, in Proverbs, you know, in 28 or whatever, some people don't have their prayers heard. Is that true? Yes or no?

Oh, yeah. Not everybody's prayers are answered. Some people can't get a prayer through.

So, I'm like, no, no, I'm good. you pray for yourself i'm i'm okay i just wanted to check out this bible you were giving out you know because i i wanted to see you know i wanted to see and still gave me the bible it's okay but i mean like i said it wasn't even a full bible it was just you know new testament and psalms or gospel and psalms or something like that it wasn't it just wasn't a full the full bible or whatever so i'm like no no i'm good you go ahead and you know you whoever you're talking to you and him y'all have a nice little conversation so go ahead so we're gonna go to deuteronomy 25 you Let's go to Deuteronomy chapter 25 Okay, this is gonna be this will conclude our Torah portion after this part right here So Deuteronomy chapter 25 and when you get there brother Study verse 1. Let the Bible speak. If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and the judges may judge them, then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

Go ahead. And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. Do you guys understand that not everything that you do wrong...

It's not always like a sin unto death. Y'all understand that, right? Okay?

Sometimes some stuff can get you excommunicated. Some stuff can get you beaten like what we're talking about right here. Some stuff leads to death.

But not everything is, oh, you messed up, gotta die. No. Sometimes you may be just unclean for 24 hours or 7 days or something like that.

You see what I'm saying? It's not everything. You don't have to die.

Everything doesn't kill you, okay? Every sin is not unto death. You know, it may be a transgression, but not... everything is unto death right here they're just adjudicating the matter okay they're just saying the judgment okay if there be a controversy between men that mean two people got to beef with each other or whatever right and they come unto the judgment okay they come into the elders and say hey look man this person did this the other person defended himself said no i didn't the judgment is that the judges they have to discern that matter they said that the judges may judge them and then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked so they're going to settle the matter when they settle the matter It shall be if the wicked man, whoever is guilty, be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down. So he's going to lie down in there.

They usually lie down like on this stone or whatever or this pillar or whatever, because you're about to get beaten. OK, so you have to lie down on there and to be beaten before his face. OK, right.

Right there in front of you, according to his fault, according to what he had done by a certain number. So now he's going to get beat. Verse three. What happened? Let's look at this beat.

What happens? For his charge, he may get him. Do not go past 40 stripes.

Go ahead. It means you went too far. Go ahead. What else?

go in on to her and take her to him to wife and before and perform the duty of an husband's brother okay now it doesn't it didn't matter it didn't matter if the brother was married or not because we already know how Old Testament Hebrews got down so we already know that didn't even matter but if your brother died okay your brother died had a wife didn't have children or whatever you die boom she goes to the she goes to the brother and he is to perform the duties of a husband and we all know what that is right now he can refuse to do that now this is the leverite law now he can refuse to do that but look at what happens though he can refuse to do that if he wants to but look at verse six go ahead let's move on And it shall be that the firstborn which he beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead. Let his name be not put out of Israel. So you're supposed to keep that line going.

Supposed to keep it going. Supposed to keep it going. Right out of, boom, you're supposed to keep that line going.

It's kind of like, kind of sort of like Boaz, okay? when he took Ruth and, you know, just to keep that, you know, keep the line going and everything, okay? It was kind of sort of like that, but verse seven, go ahead.

And if a man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders. He said, my husband's brother refuses to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel. I will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.

So the wife, the widower, she got a beef. She's like, hey, look, hold up. She goes to the elders.

She's like, wait, wait, wait. This dude right here, this is my husband's brother. He won't take me as a wife.

He won't perform the duties as a husband. He won't raise up seed. He won't give me children or nothing like that.

She's standing in front of the elders saying this. Okay, verse 8, brother, go ahead. And then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him.

And if he stand to it and say, I would like not to take her. Okay, so first the elders say, look, man, what's going on, bro? You know what we do. Okay, you know how we do. You know the law.

Look, this is what we do. Okay, this woman, your brother died, this woman doesn't have any children, you're supposed to make her your wife. What's the deal?

I don't like her. I don't like her. My brother, he like whatever. I don't know if you want to be superficial or whatever. He like big women.

I don't like big women. He like real skinny, skinny women. I don't like skinny women.

I don't like light skin or whatever. I like dark chocolate. Whatever the case may be. I don't know.

But for some reason, he don't like it. I don't know. She might have a stank attitude.

I don't know. But for whatever reason, he said, and if he stand to it and say, I like not to take her. Verse 9, what happens in that, brother? Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders. And do what?

And loose his shoe from off his foot and spit in his face. Spit in his face? Look at that.

She gets to just spit in his face. Go ahead. And shall answer and say, so shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

Okay, so it's a bad thing. Okay, it's a Hebrew culture thing. It's a bad thing.

So if the woman's saying, look, he won't even do, you couldn't be a good for nothing. Okay, you couldn't be a good for nothing. So now your name is going to be published in all Israel.

that you didn't want to keep performing the duties of a husband according to the level right law. You didn't want to do that. You should get to spit in your face in front of everybody, in front of the elders, unloose your shoes, because you don't want to have responsibility.

You don't want accountability. You don't want to do that. So it's a bad thing, okay? This is a bad thing. You got to go back to Hebrew culture, but that's a bad thing, okay?

So verse 11, let's go ahead. Let's settle a matter of two guys fighting, okay? Two guys fighting in verse 11. Let's just say two guys fighting it.

They think they throwing a fair one real quick. Go ahead Mmm and put it forth her hand and take it to him by the secret. Yeah, okay So if the woman so the woman she's ride or die and she wants to help her husband She's like, oh no, you know, you know do that to my husband or whatever and if she jump in the fight to fight the other guy and grab him by the secrets that's not good okay that's not good you can't go sorry ladies i know you want to help your man there's other ways to help him but you can't grab another man's secret okay so you got you got to let that go you can't you can't do that all right then verse 12 what does it say mmm you should not that you can't grab that's important you can't mess with another man's secret okay you can't do that all right get your hand cut off all right you don't you don't do that I'm just telling just telling you how it is okay just telling you how it is verse 13 what else There's weights and great and a small. See, what we're doing is we're seeing different things that qualifies as being an abomination.

But we're gonna get there. But look at all the different things. The lever right, you don't want to do that. That's an abomination.

If you don't want to do that, if you don't perform the duties of a wife. You handle a matter and you got a, you know, you receive 40 stripes and you don't want to exceed that. You know, you may have gone a little bit too far. Okay? if you know like i said if a woman die have no children and stuff like that we're working our way through all these things are not good now we're at 13 said thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights uh great and small so now remember we we're in an agricultural type society so when they did trade they did it by weight you give me so much of this i give you so much of that and you got to have a just weight okay things were made by a measured by weight You can't cheat somebody or defraud somebody.

In verse 14. Thou shalt not have in thine house a devil. What else? The dog shall have a perfect and just way. And a perfect and just measure shall thou have. That thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

For all that do such things and all that do unrighteously are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. That's good. That's good. For all that do such things and all that do unrighteously are an abomination unto God.

You make yourself abominable if you don't want to do a... according to what he says. You see?

So now we just saw what the Torah told us what's abominable. And like I said at the beginning of the lesson, there are a number of things that are an abomination unto God. There's more than one thing, okay? But what we want to hit some of the highlights there, you know, some of the things that we don't think about very often, but we want to hit some of those highlights. But the big three, number one, we see that, hey, it can be food.

OK, your sacrifices can be abominable. But we're talking about the big three, food, adultery and idolatry. The big three. There are others, but we're food, adultery.

and idolatry okay that way the message is not lost that's why i want to reiterate now we're getting out of the torah and we're going to go ahead and get into the tanakh so let's Let's go with me to 1 Kings. 1 Kings. Okay?

Go to 1 Kings and go to chapter 11 in 1 Kings. Chapter 11 in 1 Kings. So we can keep going.

Still got a little bit of ground to cover. So 1 Kings chapter 11. And when we get to chapter 11, my good man, pick it up at verse 1. Let the Bible speak. Talking about Saul. The king Saul and the love made the strange women. Together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites.

Of the nations concerning which the word is said unto the children of Israel, ye shall not go into them, neither shall they come in unto you. What? Why?

For surely they will turn away your heart after their God. Oh, okay. So he did give us a reason.

Go ahead. Solomon claimed unto these in love. And he had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines.

Concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. So now they stopped. Now he's starting to not serve the Most High God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And what happened in verse 4?

Before it came to pass, when Solomon was old, His wife's turned away his heart after other God and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as Was the heart of David his father say on Solomon went after went after it as a rock as to read, uh-huh the goddess of this and after milk on milk on the abomination of the M&I. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord and went not fully after the Lord go ahead David his father read on then to Solomon good in high place and for Chemosh and the abomination of Moab and the hill that is before Jerusalem and for Moab the abomination of the children of Ammon and likewise did he for all his strange wives which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods and they were in Jerusalem guys so he was actually defiling the land defiling the temple putting another god and venerating another god by you know building monuments to him by you know by putting them in with his God, the God who came to him twice in a vision. And these other guys whom you've never heard of before, never done anything for you, never spoke to you, never gave you any power, never did any, never won a battle for you, nothing.

And you giving them, paying them homage by building them high places. Doesn't make much sense, right? But the one who has communicated with you through dreams of the prophets.

you turning your back on them so in 70 said then did solomon build a high place to shemoth the abomination of moab in the hill that is before jerusalem right before jerusalem and for molek and the abomination of the children of amon in verse eight go ahead likewise did he for us wives which burnt in sin and sacrificed unto their gods. He did it. Go ahead. And the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel which had appeared upon him twice. Whoa.

So the Most High of Heaven appeared to you twice. So you got evidence. You got something.

The other guys, you got nothing. Verse 10. And I commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods, but he kept not that which the Lord commanded. All these guys, abominations, you serving these.

First of all, abomination unto the Lord vexes him, upsets him. OK, you know, it invokes his wrath. OK, he's upset.

That is evil in the sight of the Most High. Okay, this gets him really upset. First you do that.

So that's abominable. Then you make yourself abominable because you make your worship Abominable worshiping other gods that God's abominable and so are you if you're worshiping other gods? Because it upsets him it makes him mad Okay, he doesn't go after the other God.

He goes after you for doing it, right? All these other guys, you know, some people say, oh, well, you know, they're angels. Yeah, he's going to deal with them later, but he's also mad at you. Okay? He's also mad at you.

Go to 2 Kings. Let's go to the next chapter. Or the next book, I should say.

2 Kings. 2 Kings. And when you get to 2 Kings, go to chapter 21 of 2 Kings.

Chapter 21 of 2 Kings. And wow, we've been starting at verse 1 a lot, and this will be no different. Let's start at verse 1, 2 Kings 21, verse 1. Let's get with Manasseh.

Go ahead. Manasseh was 12 years old when he began to reign, and reigned 50 and 5 years in Jerusalem. Jerusalem and his mother's name was Hephzibah.

Wait, what? Hephzibah. Hephzibah.

Hephzibah. Okay, so you have Hephzibah. Now, he reigned for 55 years.

He started at 12. He was a king in Israel at Jerusalem for 55 years. That's how long he reigned. In verse 2. Verse 2. And he did not did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

What did he do? After the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. What else? For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed.

and he reared up altars for Baal and made a grove as did Ahab, king of Israel, and worshipped all the hosts of heaven to serve them. All these stars and all that stuff. Go ahead.

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. Okay, so he's serving sun, moon, stars, angels, everything but the God of Israel. But go ahead, verse 5. And he built... He built altars for all the hosts of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. And he made his son pass through the fire and observed times and used encampments and dealt with familiar spirits.

wizards here are much wickedness in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger so he done much weakness wickedness in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger now did we read where you're not supposed to be looking at you know enchanters and wizards and spirits and all the other stuff because that's an abomination of the Lord and he did exactly that and I'm pretty sure there was a priest somewhere prophet somewhere at this time told him hey man even before he was king even said when he was a little boy I know he heard that hey you know we serve the God of Israel He knew where it was, but he did evil inside of God. He was a wicked king. He's a wicked, wicked king. But go ahead, verse 7. And he said, Well, I put my name forever Another will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their father only if they do observe to will observe to the according to do according to all that I have commanded and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded what else but they are harking to harken not and Manassas seduced them to do more evil than then did the nations whom the Lord destroyed me Children of Israel Manasseh he had them do even worse.

He did worse than the heathens He did worse verse 10 and the Lord spake but speak by his servants the prophets saying Because man, I said king of Judah had done these abominations Wickedly above all that the that the hemorrhoids and did worse go ahead which were before him I have made Judah also to sin with his idol. What is he gonna do? Therefore?

That's it the Lord God of Israel Behold I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah that whosoever heareth of it both his ears shall tingle And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab And I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth his dish Wipe the dish, yeah he's going to clean it up Talk about some house cleaning, he's going to wipe the dish, wiping it what? Wiping it and turning it upside down When you do that, there's nothing left. It's kind of like another picture of it's desolate.

So if you take a plate and then you wipe it off and you turn it upside down, there's nothing on that plate. It's clean. It's nothing.

It's gone. Nothing. So he said, I'm going to wipe out Israel because of the abominations. OK, because of the abominations. And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies.

They shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies. And then 15, our last verse 15, because what? Because they have done that which was evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger.

Since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day. And even unto this day are we committing abominations. Okay? Now, we try not to do it here. Okay?

We certainly don't teach it, but I'm just saying there's people out there. If we know that idol worship is idolatry, then we know there's some people out there doing things abominable. Some people do things abominable. like worshiping other idols have our little graven images we used to walk around with our little crosses and stuff and i have a little jesus fish on our car and used to do all those things okay we used to do all those things but we know that we shall not worship our god like the other nations worship their god we can't do it the way other people do it that's what we do we throw away our heritage we throw we throw away what makes us unique we throw away what makes us peculiar how are you unique and peculiar If you do exactly what everybody else does.

How are you any different? That's the things that we got to consider. He said don't do what the other nations do. Join me in Ezra chapter 9. Ezra chapter 9 should be the next book or after first and second chronicles but Ezra chapter 9. And once again, when we get to chapter 9, we're going to pick it up at verse 1. You got me.

You figured me out. You figured out the pattern. You got it. Okay, we're going to start at verse 1. Let's go to verse 1. He broke the code. Now, when these things were done, the princes came to me saying, the people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have now separated themselves from the people of the land, doing according to their own.

their abominations, even other Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, the Boabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. Okay, so he said they didn't separate themselves. They're not any different. They're doing exactly what they're doing. He said it came to the people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, doing according to what these other people are doing.

with their God okay verse 2 go ahead for they have taken other of their daughters for themselves and for their son so that the Holy See to have mingled themselves with the people of those land mmm yeah the hand of the princes and rulers have been chief in his trespass even the hands of the princes and the rulers meaning the prophets and priests and all that stuff you know Reverend dr. Bishop after priest he doing this you know he you know why he don't correct you because he doing the same thing he doing what you're doing That's why he don't say anything. Okay? He said, even at the hand of the princes and the rulers have been chief in the...

First one out there to do it. First one out there to do it. Verse 3. Go ahead.

And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment in my mantle. And plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard. And sat down astonished.

Astonished. Yeah. So he was basically astonished.

Okay? He was surprised. He sat down and shook his head.

He's like, man. Go ahead. Verse 4. Then were assembled unto me everyone that trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of the transgression.

of those that had been carried away. And I sat with Stani until the evening sacrifice. And at the evening sacrifice I arose from my head, and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees and spread out my hands.

Okay, no problem. Let me go ahead and give you guys a little picture. Now, the evening sacrifice, they did sacrifice pretty much every day.

Okay, they did sacrifices all the time. nothing new right but one of the things he felt particularly bad sometime when they lament or when someone dies or something like that there is a custom not a lot but there's a custom where you ring your clothes when you just tear your clothes sometimes if you look at the habit it's over at Nineveh and in other places but you look at the habit it's over at Nineveh whatever they put a sackcloth on and ashes it's a symbol of being in mourning Okay, and we got to remember they did that in the Lord repented of the evil that he was gonna do to them because he saw Their posture he saw their heart he saw what they were doing. So they got sackcloth and ashes They set aside a fast over here, you know, we're talking about the priest over here Ezra He said and having rent my garment and my mantle so he took that belt like object off.

He took that off He tore his clothes. I fell upon my knees Spread out my hands unto the Lord. So they're reaching out towards the heavens either palms out palms in it doesn't matter They're just trying to he's trying to entreat the Lord because Israel had messed up so bad and had been messing up for so bad for so long.

And what happened in verse six? And said, oh, my God, I am ashamed and blushed to lift up my face to thee. So he didn't want to look up. Go ahead. My God, for our iniquities are increased over our head.

The trespass has grown and grown up onto the heavens. We're just piling on sin, sin after sin after sin, piling it all on. What else? Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day, and for our iniquities have we, our kings and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the land, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of faith, as it is this day. Same as this day.

Go ahead. And now for a little space, grace hath been showed from the Lord our God to leave us a ring. to escape and to give us a nail in his holy place that our God may lighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage for we have bondmen yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage that hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, and to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah.

and in Jerusalem. And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken thy commandments, which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land unto which ye go to possess it is an unclean land, with the filthiness of the people of the land, with their abominations, which have fulfilled it from one end to another with their uncleanness. Abomination, uncleanness, get that, go ahead, 12, go ahead. Now therefore give not your...

are your daughters unto their sons mhm not a team, they're their daughters unto your sons nor seek their their peace or their wealth forever that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inherit for an inheritance to our your children forever what else and after all that has come upon us for our equal day deeds and for our great trespass seeing that thou our god has punished us less than our iniquities deserved and has given us such deliverance as this Should we again break the commandments and join in affinity? With the affinity with the people of these abominations. So he's asking a question, really.

He says, should we again break the commandments and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? What is what? What is not thou be angry with us till thou hast consumed us? So that there should be no remnant nor escape. Go ahead.

Oh Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous, for we remain yet escaped. As it is this day, behold, we are before thee in our trespasses, for we cannot stand before thee because of this. Okay, so he's just saying our trespasses, our abominations and stuff is so great. He's praying out.

He's praying like, God, don't, you know, don't utterly destroy us. Don't just wipe us off the map, even though we deserve it. Even though we did indeed mess up. See, that's another thing when you pray, you know, people.

They don't they think they can kind of finagle with God. OK, instead of just falling on your sword is I messed up. I sinned against you. And then whatever the punishment is, whatever the law, you know, it feels unto death or whatever the case may be.

You say, hey, I deserve that. Lord, if you wanted to punish me, whatever I got coming, I deserve that. But I'm begging you for mercy. You understand. OK, so that's what I'm saying.

You own up to it. okay you own up to it don't play don't be playing around with it he already knows he already knows you got your dead to right there's nothing you can say to wiggle your way out of it he already has your dead to rights if you messed up there's nothing you can say so you might as well own it fall on your sword repent okay be like ezra is doing you read psalms you see what david done david never said i never done nothing wrong lord i don't see what the big deal that was not his attitude and if you think that you never read the psalms so we that so that's not how you do it now this lesson is about you know praying or anything like that, but we always can learn something on our way to learning something. But this is because of the abominations that they were doing. All the customs that they were adopting from the other nations, from the heathens and stuff.

Oh, let's see what they doing. Like he says, you know, in Deuteronomy, he said, you know, so that you go inquire after their gods. Figure out, oh, how do we worship this other God? What is it that these other people do?

Let's do that. And it says, no, we don't do it that way. That's why Moses said, no, Pharaoh, we can't do it here.

We can't do it. Do what y'all do. No, we're going to go three days journey out into the wilderness somewhere, and then we'll offer sacrifice out there. We got to go three days out, and then we'll do it.

How committed are you and I to trying to get this right? And again, when I say one of the big three, idolatry. adultery idolatry and food now let's watch this though guys watch this go to um go to uh ezekiel okay i want to finish up here go to ezekiel i'm gonna go two more places and then we'll finish up here ezekiel 33 go with me to ezekiel 33 let's go to our last last two places ezekiel 33 I'm going to show you something on this one.

33 in verse 23. 33 23. Get there. Let the Bible speak. Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, And they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak saying Abraham was one and he inherited the land but we are many the land is given us for inheritance. Go forth say unto them that say for Lord God ye eat with the blood and lift up your your eyes toward your idols, and she bleed and shed blood, and shall ye possess the land. Oh, okay.

Now, we're looking at it now. I want you guys to pay particular attention, okay, to these two verses, to what he just read. He, 25, so I want you guys to pay attention to 25 and 26, which is the reason why we're here. But look at, he just read 25, and now I'm going to have him read 26. Now, 25, it says, wherefore...

Say unto them that saith the Lord God, ye eat with the blood, which that's a sin. We can't eat the blood. That's why we don't eat rare steaks. We don't eat with the blood.

And lift up your eyes towards your idols, serving idols, and shed blood. And shall ye possess the land? Verse 26. What does that say? Ye stand upon your sword.

Ye work abomination. And ye defile every one of his neighbor's wife, and shall ye possess the land. And shall you possess the land. We just brought up the big three.

I said food, idolatry, and adultery. Did we not get all three of those in these two verses? Oh yeah.

And he said these are abominations, so I'm going to hit you with it one more time. He said 25, wherefore say unto them that said the Lord God ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes towards idols, that's two, and shed blood. And ye shall possess the... He basically saying, will you possess the land?

In 26, he said, and you stand upon your sword. Ye work abomination, and ye defile everyone his neighbor's wife. And shall you possess the land?

He asked another question. Pick three. Food, adultery, and adultery. 27, go ahead.

You say that I've done something to them. Thus saith the Lord God, as I live, surely they that are in the waste shall fall by the sword. And him that is in the open field will I give to the beast to be devoured.

And they that be in the forest and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease. And the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, and they shall pass through. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate.

desolate before because the what of all their abominations they have committed that's all we need that's all we need all the abomination he named three of them that I've told I told you guys there's a big three name all three of those two little passengers 25 and 26 name all three of them because you can go back into the law where it says you know you don't eat with the blood Okay, well even even even when they were sacrificing lambs and stuff like that They had to drain all the blood out of what you can't eat the blood we get a steak rare Tartar it just touch heat. It's okay. I want that.

No can't do that Can't do that, but he named all three right there You know like I said years ago the comedian was talking about oh, I doubt God cares by anything what you put in your mouth I beg to differ. I think he does care He talks about it, so we must care. Let's go to our last place. 2 Chronicles. Let's see what we should do.

2 Chronicles. And it's going to be chapter 34 when we get there. 2 Chronicles chapter 34. Let's finish up over here. And when we get to 2 Chronicles chapter 34, let's pick it up at verse 21. And we're going to do 21 to 33 to finish it out. 2 Chronicles chapter 34, verse 21. And we'll stop at 33. 21, go ahead.

Go and inquire of the Lord for me, for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found. For great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not. not kept the word of the Lord.

To do all after that is written in the book. Okay, what else? And they that the king had appointed went to hold.

and upon and upon the inhabitants thereof go ahead even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah because they have forsaken me and have burned incense unto other gods they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place and shall not be quenched and as for the king of Judah who sent you to impart the Lord so shall ye say unto him the Lord God of Israel concerning the words that which which thou hast heard mm-hmm because my heart was tender and thou didst humble thyself before God mm-hmm when thou heardest and heardest his words against this place and against the inhabitants thereof and humbled thyself before me and didst wring my clothes and weep before me I have even heard thee also say the Lord what else behold I will gather thee of thy father and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace. Now there shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king a word again. Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. What did he do?

And the king went up into the house of the Lord and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites and all the people great and small. and have read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord. And what happened? And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimony and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

I told you guys the covenant, the Torah, that is the covenant. I told you. What other book were they reading?

What other book were they reading? We're in 2 Chronicles. Okay, go ahead. 32. And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it.

And then having said Jerusalem, did according to the covenant of God and God of their fathers. And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertain to the children of Israel. And made all that were present in Israel to serve. Even to serve the Lord their God.

What? What? And all his days they departed not from following the Lord, the God of their fathers.

See? They got rid of all the abominations. They got the agreement.

A covenant means agreement, right? So they got that agreement, that covenant, Torah. I gave you the Torah portion first.

They got the Torah. They read it. They were like, okay, look here.

Oh man, look at all we're supposed to do. And when you go to the quote unquote, the 10 commandments, you don't have any gods before him. So when they got to that part in Exodus, they're like, wait a minute.

Okay. And now we know that wasn't broke up by verse and chapter and stuff like that. So when they read, they read a lot.

Okay. They read a lot. So they're just like, Oh, we, okay.

We look out our window over here. We got this statue for this God and we got the God of the Zidonians and the Amorites and the Jebusites and the Hittites and all that. We have everybody. We got a monument and statues and stuff like that. We got all that over there.

And then he said in 32 and he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. They had to stick to it. And all the inhabitants of Jerusalem did it according to the covenant of God.

So you know what they had. than a god of their fathers and what did josiah do josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of israel so if israel owned it they got rid of that abomination that's what we're supposed to do you're supposed to get rid of that abomination okay sorry can't have that and that's it these things are abominable so what so we know what the big three is It's a good place to start. You're doing pretty good if you knock out these big three and then work on the other ones later.

I got a lot more scriptures. Tom did not permit me to get to them, but you know the big three. Watch what you eat, watch whom you pray to, and stay away from your neighbor's wife. Start there and then build from there. Start there and then progress.

Handles those big three there's somewhere to start. Oh, we can't keep all that law. We can't keep them all at the same time But you can work on it You can work on it.

These things are abominable. It makes you abominable it upsets the most high It is a smoke in his nose. He makes it makes him particularly angry with you particularly So you have an opportunity to understand what an abomination is and how the Most High feels about it. Now you have the power to do something about it. And with that, I hope somebody has been edified by this lesson.

This has been a Tanakh only lesson. Abominations unto God. Shalom Israel.

See you guys next time.

Transcript for:Understanding Biblical Abominations

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Understanding Biblical Abominations