(March 9, 2015 at 4:00 pm)professor Wrote: It is real simple.
They refused what was written (line upon line).
So God sent them enemies they could not understand BECAUSE they, (being in a covenant which they broke) refused the rest of obedience which would have been theirs by being lawful and obedient.
That which was written became a judgment.
A good lesson for America.
I found the original verse easier to understand than this.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Edward Gibbon
