BECAUSE THOU HAST REJECTED KNOWLEDGE ,  I WILL ALSO REJECT THEE ,  THAT THOU SHALT BE NO PRIEST TO ME :    SEEING THOU HAST FORGOTTEN THE LAW OF THY GOD ,  I WILL ALSO FORGET THY CHILDREN .      AS THEY WERE INCREASED , SO THEY SINNED AGAINST ME :   THEREFORE  WILL I CHANGE THEIR  GLORY  INTO SHAME .  THEY EAT   UP THE SIN OF MY PEOPLE , AND THEY SET THEIR HEART ON THEIR INIQUITY  ,  AND THERE SHALL BE ,  LIKE PEOPLE ,  LIKE PRIEST :   AND I WILL PUNISH THEM FOR THEIR WAYS ,  AND REWARD THEM THEIR DOINGS .   FOR THEY SHALL EAT ,  AND NOT HAVE ENOUGH :  THEY SHALL COMMIT WHOREDOM ,  AND SHALL NOT INCREASE :   BECAUSE THEY HAVE LEFT OFF  TO TAKE HEED TO THE LORD “.     

 

JEREMIAH  7- 23   KJV

 

“  BUT THIS THING COMMANDED  I THEM ,  SAYING , OBEY MY VOICE , AND I WILL BE YOUR GOD , AND YE  SHALL BE MY PEOPLE :  AND WALK YE IN ALL THE WAYS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU ,  THAT IT MAY BE WELL UNTO YOU . “     

 

HOSEA TALKS HERE ABOUT SERIOUS TROUBLES FOR GOD’S PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, THEY HAVE FORSAKEN HIS LAW .  JUST WHO ARE GOD’S PEOPLE ?   ACCORDING TO JEREMIAH,  GOD’S PEOPLE ARE THOSE WHO OBEY HIS VOICE AND WALK IN HIS COMMANDMENTS.     TO PUT IT PLAINLY, GOD’S PEOPLE LISTEN TO , AND OBEY ,  HIM AND WALK ACCORDING TO THE  LAW OF LIBERTY.

THIS NATION WAS FOUNDED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF LIBERTY WITH THE INTENT OF  IT’S PEOPLE BEING GOD’S PEOPLE.

ARE NATION WAS GUIDED BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY AND THE WORKS

OF IT’S PEOPLE SHOWED THIS TO BE TRUE.     OUR NATION WAS SHOWERED WITH GOD’S BLESSINGS AND IT PROSPERED. THE PROSPERITY IS GONE AS  ARE  THE BLESSINGS .     WHY?  

 

HOSEA TELLS US ABOVE THAT GOD’S PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, THEY HAD EVEN GONE SO FAR AS TO REJECT KNOWLEDGE.    WHAT KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN REJECTED AND IS LACKING?   THE   KNOWLEDGE  OF GOD AND HIS LAW OF LIBERTY.

 

 

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TRUE KNOWLEDGE COMES FROM THE LORD, AS DOES EVERYTHING. BY REJECTING GOD   AND HIS KNOWLEDGE,  WE ARE FORSAKING

HIS  LAW OF LIBERTY.     WHEN WE FORSAKE HIS LAW OF LIBERTY, WE ALSO  GIVE UP HIS BLESSINGS  AND ACCEPT  HIS  CURSES .

(DEUTERONOMY 27- 28 )      WE CANNOT FORSAKE GOD AND HIS LAW OF LIBERTY AND KEEP GOD’S BLESSINGS.   HIS BLESSINGS  GO HAND AND HAND  WITH FOLLOWING HIS LAW OF LIBERTY AND THE CURSES GO HAND IN HAND  WITH FORSAKING THE SAME .   THERE ARE ONLY TWO CHOICES , TO RECEIVE THE BLESSINGS,  ONE MUST LIVE BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY , IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO RECEIVE THEM .

 

AS THE NATION REJECTS KNOWLEDGE,  WE SEE AN  INCREASE IN THE THINGS HOSEA TALKS ABOUT  . WE ARE REJECTING KNOWLEDGE BY REJECTING  GOD  AND  HIS LAW OF LIBERTY IN  ALL PUBLIC PLACES .

BY TAKING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OUT OF ALL PUBLIC PLACES,  BY TAKING  GOD  AND REFERENCES  TO HIM OUT THE SAME , BY FORBIDDING  PRAYER IN SCHOOLS , AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES ,  WE ARE REJECTING KNOWLEDGE .   JUST AS HOSEA PROPHECIED, SOME  2700-  2800  YEARS AGO , AS WE INCREASED , SO  WE ALSO SINNED AGAINST GOD .  WE ARE SETTING OUR HEARTS ON INIQUITY.  JUST LOOK AT THE  TV   , MAGAZINES,  NEWPAPERS , THE INTERNET , POPULAR VACATION SPOTS ,  ETC.      AND WE SEE SIN ,   SIN AND MORE SIN .    GOD SAYS HE WILL CHANGE OUR GLORY INTO SHAME BECAUSE OF THESE THINGS. 

  

MORE TO COME

 

 

REV   EDWARD HENRY NEWMAN