Backsliding: Guilt and Consequences of

For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”

But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.

Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.

Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”

You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”