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Message Subject Prophecies Jesus gave in Mathew 24 and Revevelation require internet and smartphone
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The Israelites were faithful to God only as long as Joshua and the leaders lived.

Judges 1 tells of many battles that were fought by the tribes of Israel after Joshua’s death. But the Israelites did not kill the enemy, or even drive them out of the land.

One tribe after another made slaves out of the people. In Judges 3, we read:

So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites...
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Worse yet:

Judges 3:6 they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord...
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Here's a repost, just to show what kind of people the Israelites were actually marrying:

The canaanites were a pretty abominable people:

Canaanites worshipped, by immoral indulgence, as a religious rite, in the presence of their gods; and then, by murdering their first-born children, as a sacrifice to these same gods. It seems that, in large measure, the land of Canaan had become a sort of Sodom and Gomorrah on a national scale. . . .

Archaeologists who dig in the ruins of Canaanite cities wonder that God did not destroy them sooner than he did....
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Judges 3:7

The Israelis forgot God - worshiping baal and the groves...
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Obviously, the ancient heathens would worship anything - even trees:

Most of the ancient gods of the Heathens used to be worshipped in groves. And groves and trees themselves were worshipped; so Tacitus says of the Germans, that they consecrated groves and forests, and called them by the names of gods....

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