Yet, you might ask, is there still hope for us? Yes, there is! I would like you to read the last section of Leviticus 26 again and really think about what Yahweh is saying here. It is truly beautiful!! Listen to what will happen if we would only confess our sin and turn back to our loving Heavenly Father!

40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

42 Then will I…

So what do we have to do? We have to confess that we have sinned, that our fathers have sinned, that we have walked contrary to Him and that because we have walked contrary to Yahweh, we need to acknowledge that He has done the same, we have to acknowledge that because of our sins, Yahweh has brought us to the land of our enemies, but it doesn’t stop there. We have to humble our hearts and ACCEPT the punishment of our sins. Then and only then does Yahweh saysl…

42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

He explains that even though we have despised his judgments and we have abhorred his statutes and that is why we must accept our punishment, but then He goes on to say,

44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am Yahweh their God.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Talk about a merciful and loving God!!!!!!!!!!! Girls, listen to what Yahweh just said!! He just said that even though He knows we have done so much against Him and He knows that we must go through our punishment because of those sins, YET FOR ALL THAT (for all our sins), I will not cast them away, neither abhor them! WOW! Talk about getting what we didn’t deserve! Yes, we truly do serve a merciful and a loving God!

He goes on to say,

45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am Yahweh.

46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Now the question comes down to, will we confess? Will we accept? And will we turn back to Yahweh, so that He might be our God? Girls, this chapter is so beautiful. Study it. Take it all in. Think about it. Ponder it. Meditate upon its truths. Pray about it. Don’t just look at the blessings, look at the curses. Think about both, but realize that if you don’t do the requirements, you will get the latter. Understand why America is being judged and why we as individuals are being judged. Understand that we serve a King and a Judge, too. Fear Him as King, because we know that as King, He will be passing out the judgments for our disobedience. But realize that when we repent and accept our punishment, that Yahweh promises us something that we truly do not deserve…His love, His grace, His mercy. THIS is what grace is. It doesn’t mean that we won’t get corrected for the sins that we have already committed, for we will. But we won’t get what we deserve, and that being an eternity in hell. Grace doesn’t mean that we can go and live a life of sin and Yahweh will turn His face from it all. It means that when we truly repent and humble ourselves, He will be gracious and merciful, not giving us what we truly deserve…eternity in hell.

My precious girls, did you see something so amazing in this chapter? Yahweh gave us clear guidance…if you do this, I will do this. All throughout this chapter Yahweh gave the action that we could take or not take and the results of those actions.

I know of a lot of people dwell on the beginning part of the chapter, because what it describes, we want. We want and desire those blessings! Yet so many skip over the requirements for those blessings! We somehow sadly think that we can still get those blessings, if we don’t fulfill the requirements that He stated had to take place, if we were going to get those blessings listed afterwards. Go back and read what those requirements were.

Leviticus 26:1-4 says,

1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Yahweh your God.

2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yahweh.

3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

4 Then I will give you…

Now I’d like to ask you, do you keep all his statutes and commandments? Read a bit farther down in the chapter before the curses and you will see Him explain what we were supposed to be keeping in greater detail.

14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do ALL these commandments;

15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

16 I also will do…. (emphasis added)

Do we despise his law or statutes? Despise means to scorn; regard with contempt, to dislike intensely; loathe etc. Remember, He is talking about all of His laws/commandments. Are there ANY commandment that you dislike, loathe, scorn etc? What about the clean and unclean laws? What about the food laws? The sacrificial laws? Girls, he isn’t saying “do you despise or loathe the fact that I said you can’t murder your neighbor”? He is talking about doing ALL of his commandments and said that if we start to despise or reject one of his laws, we will not keep it and really, how true is that? I could list a whole bunch that people started to despise and show you that sooner or later, they also started to break those very commands.

Yahweh said that “so a man thinks, that he will also do”. What we think and feel, comes before our actions. Is our heart pure towards Him? Where do we stand with His law? Do we delight in it, as Psalms 1 says we’re supposed to? Or do we despise or hate it and think His law is a burden? Remember what he says in 1 John. 1John 5:2-3 “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous (burdensome).”

What about abhorring His law? Abhor means to regard with disgust and hatred; to detest; loathe etc. Yahweh says that if we do any of these, it will make us so that we will not do all His commandments and thus break His covenant. Girls, this is serious!

I can hear you now, “we would NEVER despise or hate or abhor Yahweh’s word!” Yet don’t we? Oh, we love the verses that talk about not murdering, the verses about loving our neighbors as ourselves, the verses about God’s loving-kindnesses and tender mercies, and oh, how we love the verses that talk about His saving grace! Oh, how we love some verse!!!

Yet, my precious girls, what about the rest of His word? What about His laws, His statutes, His judgments, and His precepts? Do you abhor that part? Do you despise that part?

Let me ask you a question. What’s the opposite of abhor? Is it not to admire, love and respect…to hold in high esteem? And if we truly loved, we’d also keep it. If we truly held it in a high esteem, we’d keep it. If we admired it, we’d keep it. Yet do we? Because my dear precious girls, we can not have these blessings, unless we do! Yahweh placed a requirement before those blessings. We can not get those blessings and have His blessings fall upon us, if we do not keep His law. Remember that.

I briefly went over the blessings and the requirements to get them. You can read about the blessings in verses 4-13. But what I really want to dwell on, is the opposite of what most people dwell on. No one really likes to think about curses, but I think it is high time we begin. We need to know what our disobedience will bring upon us! What happens when we disobey Yahweh? Does He forgive and forget? Doesn’t He have a “multitude of tender mercies”? (Psalms 51) What about His grace? Isn’t He a gracious and loving God, full of compassion?

I can heartily tell you that all the above is true. He is a loving, gracious, and merciful God. But the truth is that He is also a jealous God and one that will judge and correct us for our sins! He does not sit on His throne of righteousness and turn His face away from our sins! This whole “grace, grace” movement is SO wrong! Yahweh said to “fear” Him! Why? Because He will judge us for our sins! Just like we should fear our earthly king if we murder someone, knowing the just punishment that will follow, we need to fear the living God, too! Oh, yes, He is gracious and merciful. If He wasn’t, we’d all be thrown into a hell to burn for an eternity, for that is truly what we deserve. We don’t deserve anything else. But that doesn’t mean that Yahweh sits on His thrown and reins with a soft hand, ignoring all of our sins. In fact, if He didn’t judge us for our sins, He says that it would mean that we are either 1) not His or 2) He doesn’t love us. Correction comes because of His love for us, not vice versa. He cares more for our eternal souls, than for our comfort here on earth and we must remember that. Don’t get caught up and think that you can “be His” and “live your life in sin” and get away with it, for my dear precious girls, you will not! Take heed to what He says.

Now, let’s get into His word and find out what He will do when we despise, reject and abhor his law.

Yahweh spent verse 4-13 going over the blessings that we would get if we obeyed and they truly are blessings! Then in verses 14-39 He goes over all the curses, with each one getting worse and worse. Why? He explains why they keep getting worse in verses 18, 22, 24 and 28. Let’s read what it says:

18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

Does Yahweh take our sin seriously? Oh yes, He most certainly does!! He gives us a list of sins, then says if we still won’t listen and hearken to him, he will make the curses 7 TIMES worse! He says that FOUR times! That means that by the end of the chapter, the curses are 28 TIMES worse than the first curses! He wants us to repent and turn back to Him. This is how much He cares for us! He does not want us to lose our souls, He cares way too much for that! You see, by Him correcting us and making us really uncomfortable, He brings us to (or is hoping to bring us to!) a repenting heart.

There are two main curses that I would like to bring out, as this subject is very dear to my heart. Listen to the blessing, then listen to the curses. Which one are we?

9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

The blessing of His respect = making fruitful and multiplying us! What a testimony! Children truly are one of His greatest blessings…why? Because children are ETERNAL! He is entrusting us with ETERNAL souls!

But look at the curse that follows if we don’t obey Him.

22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children…

29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

Have you ever thought about these two curses? I honestly don’t believe those “wild beasts” are literally wild animals, although they may be. But think about this in a little different light. What else are “wild beasts” who are robbing us of our children? Social services anyone? If anyone has robbed us of our children, it is them. Yet, didn’t Yahweh say that He would send wild beast that would do just that?

But that isn’t all. If we still don’t repent, Yahweh said we would end up eating the flesh of our own children! You say that this would NEVER happen, but I want you to look around you, because yes, it would and DOES happen ALL the time! My girls, we are now eating the flesh of our sons and daughters in the form of aborted babies! Oh yes, you read that right! Girls, they are putting aborted babies in just about everything! They are in pills (read the news, it was just on it not too long ago), they are in conditioners, lotions, etc. There are actually places that will buy your babies from you through abortion, because there is that kind of market for them, and that is plain sick. Yet, what did Yahweh say would one day happen if we continued to reject His law? He said that He would first take our children away from us, but if that didn’t turn us, He would make it so that we would one day eat their precious flesh and what is happening? We can see the downward slope. First it was that we looked at Him having respect unto us and being fruitful and multiplying us as a great curse, so we started limiting the number of eternal souls that we allowed Him to bring into the world. Then we started having our children being robbed of us, and now we’re actually eating their flesh, and most of the time, we never even know that we are doing it.

So let me ask you again, do these curses apply to us today? Are they taking place in our own lives? They most certainly do and are! We can go through curse after curse and see how Yahweh has brought this nation under one curse after another, all because of our sin. We used to be one truly blessed people, but not anymore. We are being judged for our sins. We are being judged as individuals for our sins, and as a nation for our sins, because we as the people, are walking contrary to Yahweh’s word and law. Yahweh is trying to bring us back to Him and the curses are getting worse and worse because we are refusing to come back to Him. We have made ourselves our own gods, doing what we want to and therefore do not listen to the Living and True God any longer. Girls, this is a serious problem. When will we turn back to Him? When will we turn back to our Lover? It’s up to us. We have a choice…to continue in our sin, or to repent and turn. Which will it be?