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The Beast and Babylon (Part Seven): How Can Israel Be the Great Whore?

'Personal' from John W. Ritenbaugh

Israel's fickleness is a recurring theme of profound disloyalty and rebellion against God. Like an inexperienced teenager, Israel often believed she knew better than her Creator, displaying an evil heart of unbelief that led her to rebel against a living, dynamic Being she failed to recognize during her Exodus and pilgrimage. This stands in stark contrast to the faithfulness of Jesus and Moses, who remained steadfast to Him who appointed Them. God describes Israel's unfaithfulness in vivid terms, likening her to a deceitful bow that appears reliable but fails under pressure, shooting arrows astray. In her marriage relationship with Him, Israel is portrayed as a beautiful woman full of promise who eagerly vowed obedience, only to quickly break her covenant by behaving unfaithfully, worse than a common harlot. Driven by fickle lusts, she chased after idols and ways of life prohibited by God, abandoning Him in spiritual adultery. Israel's curiosity and discontent led her to seek variety and excitement outside God's commands, viewing His laws as denying her pleasure. Despite His instructions to seek only Him in His designated place, she remained disastrously curious, incautious, and filled with impatient yearnings for something different. Her drive for satisfaction her own way often came at the expense of godly conduct, revealing a self-centered depravity. From the beginning, Israel rejected God and His way, becoming a vehicle for spreading false heathen practices worldwide. Her sins, labeled as fornication, reflect gross idolatry and unfaithfulness in all aspects of life, including business, stewardship of the earth, and personal relationships. This powerful bent to conform to the world and throw off what made her holy and peculiar underscores her consistent rejection of God's purpose. Even with the greatest gifts of revelation and intimacy with God, Israel's responsibility and deviancy were unmatched. Her fearful and fickle discontent prevented her from seeking Him to understand His work, instead pursuing experiences contrary to His preparation for His Kingdom. This unfaithfulness marks her as a profound example of rebellion against the one way that leads to abundant life.

The Day of Israel's Calamity

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

As a nation, we have rejected wisdom in favor of foolishness, bringing about major calamities: famines, pestilence, earthquakes, cosmic disturbances.

The Beast and Babylon (Part Six): The Woman's Character

'Personal' from John W. Ritenbaugh

Most of us are living in the end-time manifestation of Babylon the Great. We can resist her influence if we understand what makes her so attractive to us.

Knowing God

Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

To fulfill one's purpose, one must be singularly focused on what one wants to accomplish. Divided minds result in no productivity or even devastation.

The Commandments (Part Sixteen)

Sermon/Bible Study by John W. Ritenbaugh

It is absolutely impossible for lust to bring about any kind of satisfaction. Adultery cannot be entered into without irrevocably damaging relationships.

Psalms: Book Three (Part Four)

Sermon by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Historically and spiritually speaking, the beginning of things set the stage for what comes after.

What's So Bad About Babylon? (2003) (Part 2)

Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

The entire Babylonian system has an enslaving, addicting, and inebriating quality, producing a pernicious unfaithfulness and Laodicean temperament.