Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lord your God.The ultimate failure to God would be to not obey Him, especially when you have seen His powers and grace towards you. You will go from being a huge nation to non-existence, subsumed by those around you. Yet this is nearly what happened to the Israelites. Their land was taken, their people decimated and scattered, their culture nearly lost.
I sometimes wonder how much this applies to us today, as Christians? Are we under the same promise/judgement? If we fail to honor God, as I have to say I frequently fail, will we also be scattered or destroyed, leaving only the few faithful to rebuild? Or does this not apply to us, and we could theoretically become as washed out as we like, and still exist while having no impact? It seems so often that we are drifting towards the latter.
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