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The breakdown of family values is having a devastating effect on society. Older people are no longer respected by the young, lawlessness abounds, everyone does what they like with no thought for their neighbors, politicians, and the government is viewed as corrupt. The leaders of the church are out of touch, out of mind, and out to lunch. This scenario is not taken from last week’s tabloid...

The covenants with Assyria would be exactly analogous to the one they had with Yahweh. The Israelites would be involved in pagan sacrifices and pagan rites. They were in effect repudiating their covenant with God and making alliances with fake deities. One illustration of ‘empty oaths’ was that taken by Hoshea, Israel’s last king. He entered into covenant with the king of Assyria (2 Kings 17:3), but then some time later broke his oaths to Assyria and turned to Egypt instead (2 Kings 17:4). It was
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