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you return to him. Don't be like your fathers
were! The earlier prophets pled in vain with them
to turn from all their evil ways. "Come, return to
me," the Lord God said. But no, they wouldn't lis-
ten; they paid no attention at all. Your fathers and
their prophets are now long dead, but remember
the lesson they learned, that God's Word endures!
It caught up with them and punished them. Then
at last they repented. "We have gotten what we de-
served from God," they said. "He has done just
what he warned us he would."
(Zechariah 1:2-6 LB)
The prophet Nahum gave five reasons why God had
to send judgment on that society:
1. It had become bloody, violent, full of lies and rob-
bery.
2. It was full of witchcraft, adultery, nakedness, and
perversion.
3. Men became as women, and multitudes turned to
drunkenness.
4. There was a loss of leadership, with captains like
grasshoppers.
S. The ministers were slumbering, leaving the popu-
lation crippled, void, and bruised.
Look again at the reasons why God destroyed Nine-
veh. This nation of ours is guilty of all five of these
indictments. How can we escape judgment for doing the
same things that destroyed Nineveh?

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast,
and every transgression and disobedience received
a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape,
if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first
began to be spoken by the Lord, and was con-
firmed unto us by them that heard him. .
(Hebrews 2:2,3 KJV)
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