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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 33
Abraham as an everlasting inheritance; he said that his descendants would be as the sand of the
sea; and that all nations would be blessed through him
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Jesus was the fulfillment of God's
promise to Abraham and Israel. Jesus was born of Mary who was of the seed of Abraham and
through Jesus Christ all the nations of the world have been blessed.
Israel Rejected Jesus Christ
Although all the world has been blessed through Jesus Christ, the majority of Abraham's
descendants have rejected Jesus Christ and have received a curse rather than a blessing. After
delivering Israel from captivity in Egypt, God promised Israel special blessings if they kept his
commandments. He further promised to curse them and send judgment upon them if they turned
away from him and refused to obey his commandments (Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28). We
can see God's warning to Israel in the selected verses below (please take the time to read all of
Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28 and Deuteronomy 7-9):
Israel Was Warned
But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my
judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my
covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror,
consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow
of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I
will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that
hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
(Leviticus 26:14-17)
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the
LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I
command thee this day…The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and
rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed,
and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby
thou hast forsaken me. The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee,
until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an
inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with
blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish….The
LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one
way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all
the kingdoms of the earth…. (Deuteronomy 28:15, 20-22, 25)
God makes it clear in Deuteronomy 9:3-6 that he did not give the land of the Canaanites
to Israel because of their righteousness but rather because of the wickedness of the Canaanites:
Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth
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