Desolate but not forsaken?

Amos 9:15

¹⁵       I will plant them in their land,

          And no longer shall they be pulled up

          From the land I have given them,”

         Says the Lord your God.

I have been inquiring of the Lord how is it Lord that you said before you went to the cross that the Israeli “house is left desolate” yet you would never allow them to be pulled up once you gave them the land again?

I realized as I studied that the Lord is able to do both in His mysterious ways. He showed me first that the house is left desolate when He is rejected. The verse in Mathew 23: 1- 36 is a scathing rebuke to the religious leaders who led the people away from the Truth. The people then are led into idolatry by the religious leaders as it states in Ezekiel 8:6

^“6Furthermore He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater abominations.”  Then in verse eight “¹²Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols?” And concluding with verses fifteen to eighteen.

             ¹⁵Then He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Turn again, you will see greater abominations than these.” ¹⁶So He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’S house; and there, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.

¹⁷And He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose. ¹⁸Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”

The Lord states that the leadership’s idolatry which He calls abominations in His house causes the desolations. Even as Balaam knew that if he caused the wilderness children to sin by sexual immorality and spiritual adultery through food sacrificed to idols they would reap the curses of disobedience. Hence the Lord acts in His jealous anger abandoning them as they are given over to judgments.

I continued to ask the Lord what are Your sentiments towards Your people Israel who entertain occultism, organizations that are birthed out of raping, pillaging, land lust, and greed that have done it in the Name of Yeshua, homosexuality, licentiousness, witchcrafts, drugs, abortion, and all forms of idolatry which are spiritual adultery? I began to read and listen to the book of Hosea.

Ho 2:2&3 ²      “Bring charges against your mother, bring charges;

          For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband!

          Let her put away her harlotries from her sight,

          And her adulteries from between her breasts;

³        Lest I strip her naked

          And expose her, as in the day she was born,

          And make her like a wilderness,

Vs 10 ¹⁰           Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,

          And no one shall deliver her from My hand.

Ho 4:1,2,3a ¹   Hear the word of the Lord,

          You children of Israel,

          For the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land:

          “There is no truth or mercy

          Or knowledge of God in the land.

²        By swearing and lying,

          Killing and stealing and committing adultery,

          They break all restraint,

          With bloodshed upon bloodshed.

³        Therefore the land will mourn;

Ho 4:12b-13For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray,

          And they have played the harlot against their God.

¹³       They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops,

          And burn incense on the hills,

          Under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,

          Because their shade is good.

          Therefore your daughters commit harlotry,

          And your brides commit adultery.

Ho 4: 18 ¹⁸      Their drink is rebellion,

          They commit harlotry continually.

          Her rulers dearly love dishonor.

Ho 5: 3  ³I know Ephraim,

          And Israel is not hidden from Me;

          For now, O Ephraim, you commit harlotry;

          Israel is defiled.

Ho5:10-15 ¹⁰   “The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark;

          I will pour out My wrath on them like water.

¹¹       Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment,

          Because he willingly walked by human precept.

¹²       Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth,

          And to the house of Judah like rottenness.

¹³       “When Ephraim saw his sickness,

          And Judah saw his wound,

          Then Ephraim went to Assyria

          And sent to King Jareb;

          Yet he cannot cure you,

          Nor heal you of your wound.

¹⁴       For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,

          And like a young lion to the house of Judah.

          I, even I, will tear them and go away;

          I will take them away, and no one shall rescue.

¹⁵       I will return again to My place

          Till they acknowledge their offense.

          Then they will seek My face;

         In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

Ho 6:4-7  ⁴      “O Ephraim, what shall I do to you?

          O Judah, what shall I do to you?

          For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud,

          And like the early dew it goes away.

⁵        Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets,

          I have slain them by the words of My mouth;

          And your judgments are like light that goes forth.

⁶        For I desire mercy and not sacrifice,

        And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

⁷        “But like men they transgressed the covenant;

         There they dealt treacherously with Me.

Ho 7    ²          They do not consider in their hearts

          That I remember all their wickedness;

          Now their own deeds have surrounded them;

          They are before My face.

³        They make a king glad with their wickedness,

          And princes with their lies.

⁴        “They are all adulterers.

Ho 8: 1-3 ¹      “Set the trumpet to your mouth!

          He shall come like an eagle against the house of the Lord,

          Because they have transgressed My covenant

          And rebelled against My law.

²        Israel will cry to Me,

          ‘My God, we know You!’

³        Israel has rejected the good;

          The enemy will pursue him.

Ho 8: 4b-7 They made idols for themselves—

          That they might be cut off.

⁵        Your calf is rejected, O Samaria!

          My anger is aroused against them—

          How long until they attain to innocence?

⁶        For from Israel is even this: