16 Bible Verses about Growth Of Evil
Most Relevant Verses
He asked me: Son of man, do you see what the people of Israel are doing? The people of Israel are doing very disgusting things here, things that will force me to go far away from my holy place. But you will see even more disgusting things.
He said to me: Do you see this, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these.
So she increased her acts of fornication. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion (reddish-orange color),
Yet she multiplied her acts of prostitution. She remembered the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt.
She has rebelled against my ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against my statutes more than the lands that surround her. My people have rejected my ordinances and have not walked in my statutes.
They grew in number and sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
I will not drive them out within a year's time. If I did, the land would become deserted. There would be too many wild animals for you.
You have killed many people in this city and have filled its streets with corpses.'
The people of Israel have built palaces, and they have forgotten their maker. The people of Judah have built many fortified cities. I will send a fire on their cities and burn down their palaces.
The more altars that the people of Ephraim build to make offerings to pay for their sins, the more places they have for sinning.
But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.
It is enough for the disciple (student) that he is like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub (Satan), others of the household could also be called the same!
The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.
Jehovah has become like an enemy fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel. He has sent destruction on all her great houses, turning his strong places into waste. He increases the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
