Section 6: SHALL I NOT REPAY?! SHALL NOT MY DISCIPLINE BE MOST SEVERE?!
"...Thus says The Lord: And do I now also lack justice in your eyes?! Have My ways become unfair in your sight?! Shall you continue to cast off My servants as madmen, because they have forsaken everything to follow Me?! Yet day and night you watch over your precious idols and secure all your cherished possessions, that you might sit at ease upon your thrones of vanity! Your goals are foolishness and your words wind, selfish desires and vain pursuits pleasing only to men, plans and aspirations which shall shortly come to nothing, passing from many of you even before the time. For all these things which you love shall be taken from you, and that which you hold most dear shall be snatched from your arms in one day. Behold, I shall purge your hearts by calamity, And empty your minds by astonishment, And you shall break on account of all these Things coming to pass before your eyes!... SPIRIT AND BODY SHALL BE BROKEN TOGETHER!... For I have come to purify and to take away, And to destroy, that the defiant may be broken And the high-minded bent backward, That the evil of heart may be cast face down In the midst of great calamity!... Multitudes of dead bodies strewn about In the waste places of every city, The streets and alleyways stained red with blood! For the defiant stand proud; they shall be humbled. And the high-minded speak foolishly with their mouths wide open, leading many astray; they shall be severely abased. Yet the evil of heart shall have no place. For they shall be brought down into the silence of death, for this is their due reward. Yet the stench of their rotting corpses shall testify on their behalf, and the sight of their broken bodies shall speak loudly in one accord. And The Lord, alone, shall be exalted in that day! Yet The Lord is not without mercy. Therefore those in whom I see of Myself, in whom I am shown to be foremost, shall escape; and after, those who willingly bow down and call upon My name in truth shall be delivered. Yet My people remain foolish. For they think themselves wise in their own eyes, and in their arrogance they rest upon their own doctrine while embracing every tradition I hate. Look how they love their idols and prize their great statues! They seek renown from among their own, that they might receive praise from men. And oh how they love their churches, and revere this false image in which they have recreated Me. Brood of vipers, congregations of sly and deceitful snakes, all you soothsayers and smooth-talkers who lull My people to sleep and seduce My children to commit fornication with the harlot, with your speech you woo My people to follow you into death! Your counsel brings them down to the pit! You provide My people with security in false hope, and put forth divinations of peace and safety, preaching prosperity in monologues of false praise and fake passion, abusing My name and misusing My Word, twisting it to uphold your own corrupt foundation, all in the name of unrighteous gain!... SHALL I NOT REPAY?! SHALL NOT MY DISCIPLINE BE MOST SEVERE?! Says The Lord...."
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