"Be very careful, therefore, to love the LORD your God. For if you turn back, and join the survivors of these nations left here among you, and intermarry with them, so that you marry their women and they yours, know assuredly that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you; but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you". Joshua 23:11-13
In Old Testament times each ethnic group had its own worship system. To marry a foreigner was to marry someone outside your own religion.
In Old Testament times each ethnic group had its own worship system. To marry a foreigner was to marry someone outside your own religion.
How many Christians have I seen living defeated lives because they married an unbeliever! They are so numerous. There are three stages to the catastrophe. Firstly God is no longer powerfully present and giving victory and miracles, He said "know assuredly that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you". Then there is a time of bitter frustration and pointlessness, a feeling of being trapped. But they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes the pain can be so sharp that it will be like "a thorn in your eyes". Lastly everything you work for goes up in smoke there may be a foolish financial decision or an affair, alcoholism, unbelieving children, even a deception. You look back on a life that should have been prosperous and rewarding and instead you have perished from the land". Look around you and see. This is not an idle threat from God. It really does happen.
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