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empty (
meaningless
) words AND SPEAK LIES; they conceive evil and bring
forth iniquity. They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider’s web (
their
planning
); he who eats of their eggs dies, and from that which is crushed
(
nothing works for them for good, only worse
) a viper breaks out.”
Confession of their sins will be made before the Almighty God by those who come to fear
Him as it was then by a prophet of God lamenting the sins of Israel at that time:
Isaiah 59:9-15 “. . . We look for light (
a solution of personal, civil, national, world
problems
), but there is (
moral and physical
) darkness! For brightness, but we
walk in blackness!
We grope for (
along
) the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no
eyes; we stumble at noonday as at twilight; we are as dead men in desolate
places. We all growl like bears (
in distress
), and moan sadly like doves; we
look for justice, but there is none; for SALVATION, but it is far from us.
For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify
against us; and as for our iniquities we know them; in transgressing and
LYING against the LORD, and departing from our God, speaking
oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart WORDS OF
FALSEHOOD.
Justice is TURNED BACK and righteousness stands afar off (
Habakkuk 1:4
);
for TRUTH is fallen in the street (
rejected
), and equity cannot enter.
So TRUTH FAILS, and he who departs from evil (
and speaks against evil, Amos
5:10
) makes himself a prey.”
Those who depart and stand up for TRUTH are ridiculed as contemptible! In addition,
laws have been passed that forbid the preaching, as the Holy Bible terms it, the
abominable sins in society.
Knowledge of God’s Laws
The laws of God should be realized as vitally important in mankind’s short journey on
this earth; however due to their rejection of them it is a lawless and blinded society that
has lost its way and do not know what their tragic ending will be at the close of this age.
Paradoxically, mankind can look up to the
North Star in the sky on a clear night and find
his needed direction when he is lost; the same
direction can also be found by observing the
Starry Heavens to see the awesome display of
the POWER of God’s laws; that speak silently
but eloquently to all who will listen to them.
By also studying the design and pattern of stars
that operate by the inexorable laws of God
coupled with the demonstration of unbelievable POWER can enable man to see that it is
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