“And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in stoutness of heart, The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place...Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.”
Isaiah 9:9-10, 17 ASV
God's hand is stretched out still, pleading with all flesh to turn away from their fornications, murders, thefts and abominations. Jonah warned the people of Ninevah that those who refused to turn away from lying vanities forsook their own mercy. But we know from the scriptures that the whole city of Ninevah repented in sackcloth and ashes at the preaching of Jonah. Now a greater than Jonah has.preached "repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!" Yet they turn not their eyes from BEHOLDING abominations, nor do they repent of their murders, thefts and fornications.
Jesus said, "if your eye offends you, pluck it out. For it is better to enter into the kingdom of God maimed rather than cast into hell whole." The eye of the adulterer is not offended nor is the sodomite ashamed. They say in their hearts there is no God. "Professing themselves to be wise, they have become fools".
God has given them over to a reprobate mind.
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