Deuteronomy 7:1-4 – 1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites
and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— 2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.
Almost everyone who doesn’t know God well really struggles with Him sending in the Israelites to destroy nations that are in the Land.
Why was he sending them in? Because they were evil!
Why were they evil? Because they were serving other Gods and doing detestable things in God’s sight.
What is evil? It’s the opposite of what God has made to be good. God is good. The further away from
God, the more evil things get.
So who struggles with this? I’ll tell you. Arrogant people who will decide themselves what evil is. They will make that decision and will not be told by anyone what good and evil are. They believe to go in and
destroy a nation that isn’t serving God is evil. Who are they to say?
Look what God says in the scripture above. Do not intermarry with them for they will turn your sons away to serve other Gods.
Then what? The Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.
WOW! It looks like God cares and takes this pretty serious. So those who completely disregard His Word or look at it as if it is evil, it doesn’t look like he will be a big fan of that come judgment time.
God makes the rules. He God, we creation. However, with the fall came the prideful arrogant gene.
Who wants to make amends with God? I do. I hope you do to. You don’t want to ultimately be on the wrong side. If you don’t know Him and want to receive His redemption, please go to the page on
the right hand side of the blog and it will walk you through how to do so.