“And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.” Leviticus 18:27-28
Leviticus 18 expresses God’s standards regarding sexual purity. Among His prohibitions, He includes incest, bestiality, adultery, and homosexuality. Note the interdependence of the people and the land; when the people defiled the land, the land “vomited out her inhabitants. God revealed to Abraham that his descendents would spend 400 years in Egypt, after which God would return them to the Promised Land. “And in the fourth generation they shall come back hither; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.” The Amorites lived in the land God promised to Israel, and He had to wait until the iniquity of the Amorites was complete before removing them.
There comes a point when the sexual immorality of a people crosses a threshold and the land “vomits” them out. I have no idea where that threshold is, but God does. It has nothing to do with God’s election, nor with whether or not the inhabitants are His chosen people; when Israel crossed the line God sent them into captivity in Babylon.
In our country where we sanction divorce, homosexuality, and all manner of immorality – where the dormitories at our universities have become dens of licentiousness – I fear we may be getting close to crossing this threshold, if we have not already done so. Lord God, have mercy on us!
We dare not forget that although investigation and experimentation in the intellectual realm leads to excellence, when applied to the moral realm it leads to depravity and utter ruin.
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