There is today a message of "love" (a weak, wimpish, emotional love) promoted by religion's deception, not understanding that with "steadfast love" there are penalties for breaking fellowship and communion, by desecrating the alter of the LORD and turning ones back to the New standing Covenant of Grace into which we all have become one in and with Him to Whom we are married as Paul calls us. For today's study I will endeavor to look into examples of disobedience which carries penalties for such behavior, these we will also explore the LORD willing. Keep in mind that Israel is our example of disobedience and we are to learn from them His lessons, as He reveals Himself through them.
Disobedience, by way of examples,
Genesis 3:11 of 8-19 "And they (Adam and woman) heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool (early part, before dawn breaks) of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. For the LORD God called to the man and said to him, 'Where are you?' And Adam said, "I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself."
Gen 3:11 He said, 'Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?' Adam said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate." Then the LORD God said to the woman, 'What is this that you have done?' The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." The LORD God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.' To the woman HE said, 'I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.' Then to Adam HE said, 'Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.'"
Genesis 19:26 of 23-26 "The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven. And HE overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt."
Leviticus 10:1 of 1-3 "Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, which HE had not commanded them. And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD has said: 'Among those who are near Me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" And Aaron held his peace."
Numbers 20:11 of 9-13 "Moses took the staff from before the LORD, as HE commanded him. Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?" And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock. And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 'Because you did not believe in Me, to uphold Me as Holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.' These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and through them HE showed Himself Holy."
Joshua 7:1" But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel."
1Samuel 13:13 of 8-14 "He (Saul) waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him. So Saul said, "Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings." And he offered the burnt offering. As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him. Samuel said, "What have you done?" And Saul said, "When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash, I said, "Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD." So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering." To this Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which HE commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after His own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you."
Jonah 1:3 of 1-3 "Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 'Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before Me.' But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD."
Zephaniah 3:2 of 1-7 "Woe to her [of Revelation 17-18, (the Nations)] who are rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city (Jerusalem)! She listens to no voice; she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she does not draw near to her God. Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning. Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law (that points out mans flaws, a dart or arrow thrown, Strong's H8451 with root of H3384). The LORD within her is righteous; HE does no injustice; every morning HE shows forth His justice; each dawn HE does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame. 'I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant. I said, 'Surely you will fear ME; you will accept correction. Then your dwelling would not be cut off according to all that I have appointed against you.' But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.'"
The Penalty for Disobedience,
Deuteronomy 11:28 of 26-28; 28:15 "'See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.'"
Deuteronomy 28:15 "'But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all His commandments and His statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.'"
1Samuel 12:15 of 6-18, 28:18 of 15-19; 1Kings 13:21 of 20-25, Jeremiah 12:17 of 14-17 "Samuel said to the people, "The LORD is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous deeds of the LORD that HE performed for you and for your fathers. When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried out to the LORD and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place. But they forgot the LORD their God. And HE sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them. And they cried out to the LORD and said, "We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve You." And the LORD sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety. And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, "No, but a king shall reign over us," when the LORD your God was your king. And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, the LORD has set a king over you. If you will fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well. But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you and your king. Now therefore stand still and see this great thing that the LORD will do before your eyes. Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the LORD, that HE may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking for yourselves a king." So Samuel called upon the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel."
1Samuel 28:18 of 15-18; 1Kings 13:21 of 20-25, Jeremiah 12:17 of 14-17 "Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and GOD has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do." To this Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the LORD has turned from you and become your enemy? The LORD has done to you as HE spoke by me, for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David. Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD and did not carry out His fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you this day."
1Kings 13:21 of 20-25; Jeremiah 12:17 of 14-17 "As they (Jeroboam and prophets, 1-10, 11-19) sat at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back. And he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have disobeyed the word of the LORD and have not kept the command that the LORD your God commanded you, but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which HE said to you, 'Eat no bread and drink no water,' your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'" And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back. And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body. And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown in the road and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived."
Jeremiah 12:17 of 14-17 "Thus says the LORD concerning all My evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given My people Israel to inherit: 'Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land. And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, 'As the LORD lives,' even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of My people. But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Ephesians 5:6 of 6-14 "Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of GOD comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not become partners with them; for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the LORD. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the LORD. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore HE says (by Isaiah in 26:19 of 11-19, 51:17 of 17-20, 52:1 of 1-2 and 60:1 of 1-3), "'Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.'"
2Thessalonians 1:8 of 3-12; 1Timothy 1:9 of 8-11 "We ought always to give thanks to GOD for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of GOD for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of GOD, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of GOD, for which you are also suffering— since indeed GOD considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know GOD and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the LORD and from the glory of His might, when He comes on that day to be glorified in His saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. To this end we always pray for you, that our GOD may make you worthy of His calling (2Corinthians 6:11-7:1 with Revelation 18:4-8 of 17 and 18) and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by His power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our GOD and the Lord Jesus Christ."
1Timothy 1:9-10 of 8-11 "Now we know that the law (here Strong's blends the two laws, in G3551, H8451, one of condemnation, the other the path of life less traveled) is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law (H8451 and G3551) is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel (the path of life is laid down, revealed) of the glory of the blessed GOD with which I have been entrusted."
Hebrews 2:2-3 of 1-4 "Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, while GOD also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will."
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