good analysis...
problem is really this...too many religious think all they have to do is say "Jesus is my Saviour" and shazamm...they can cheat, lie, steal, porn until the cows come home because they are already "saved" no matter what evil they do...
there is a huge disconnect with people....
Criminals commit crimes because they think God will cover them?
No, I don’t think so.
Criminals commit crimes to benefit themselves.
I agree with what you said in
comment #22.
It's happened before. A king of the northern kingdom of Israel followed his wife and her friends into idolatry. Ten tribes were taken away by the Assyrians and distributed as slaves in faraway countries. The same process happened in Judah afterwards. Both parts of the nation of Israel were taken away and dispersed into foreign, idolatrous cultures.
In the U.S.A., Puritans, Huguenots and others came to partially escape idolatry in Europe. They nearly escaped it but didn't go far enough. Their descendants sank deeper into it with each generation. That process was accelerated beginning around 1970 with calls, even in fundamentalist churches (e.g., Southern Baptist), to swerve more in the direction of idolatry (see Marcionism, Jezebel).
Have a quick, easy look at these verses, then read the chapters around them.
Isaiah 43:11.
Zechariah 14:9.
Malachi 3:6
Many have now escaped again, somewhat, to become Noachides and keep their families more cohesive and away from drugs and other enslaving indulgences.