In a recent blog I wrote about a man named Manasseh. His life is recorded in 2 Kings 21 and 2 Chronicles 33. Most of his life was dedicated to evil so much so that God called it an abomination. He turned his back on God at a young age. During the fifty-five years of his reign, he influenced the people of Judah to do terrible things such as sacrificing their own children for idols. God’s anger responded by having their enemies conquer Jerusalem. God said that he would wipe the city as one would wipe a dish. Read in those passages the extent of this king’s evil that he had done. He and the people thought they could practice their sorceries and witchcraft without consequences. Not so said God.
God’s judgment fell on the nation of Judah and particularly on Manasseh. This man’s evil influence is recorded as to be greater than all the heathen nations surrounding them. After his death, his son Amon, followed his father’s example by doing evil also. Scripture says that he forsook the Lord God. He only reigned two years because he was assassinated by his own servants.
It is important for us today to realize how when evil is practiced, evil has consequences on oneself and on those in the community. Even though Manasseh was overthrown by the king of Assyria and put in “thorns and bound with fetters” and was carried away to the city of Babylon, there he repented but it was too little too late. God allowed him to return to his throne afterwards where he attempted to undo all his evil. He may have repented. He may have tried to undo his evil but was not effective since the people continued his example all the way under the reign of his son.
+The lesson to be learned is that when evil is committed, its effects can never be undone!
Yesterday the state of Ohio voted to approve an amendment to the Constitution whereby abortions can be expanded and legally practiced. A nine-month-old baby still in his mother’s womb can be murdered by abortion. This evil will not be ignored by God. This evil will have major consequences on the citizens of Ohio. The killing of innocent babies before they are born is equal to the abominations of Manasseh and his son. This vote reveals what evil is in the heart of the majority of our citizens. Beware Ohio. God will judge. What we have sown so shall we reap. Evil is among us more than ever before. Evil will now be practiced openly and brazenly. Ohio has become a pagan state.
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