Leviticus 26 ... 3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my
commandments, and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due season,
and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall
yield their fruit.
5 And your threshing
shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the
sowing time:and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your
land safely. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down,
and none shall make you afraid:and I will rid evil beasts out of the
land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put
ten thousand to flight:and your enemies shall fall before you by the
sword.
9 For I will have respect unto
you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant
with you. 10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because
of the new. 11 And I will set my tabernacle among you:and MY soul shall not abhor you.
12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
13
I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands
of your yoke, and made you go upright.
14 But
if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my
judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break
my covenant:16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint
over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume
the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart:and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies:they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:20 And your strength shall be spent in vain:for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
(NT
... those in church who mishandle the word of God ... Paul says, 29 For
he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation
to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30 For this cause many are
weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge
ourselves, we should not be judged. I Cor. 11 ... The Lord's supper is
the Word of God. If we mishandle the word of God we bring "damnation"
to ourselves ... The Lord's supper is the partaking of the Word of God.
The Lord's supper is not crackers & grape juice set up by fleshly
men who read Bible by their fleshly minds. The Lord's supper is the
Word of God which has great power for those who believe and handle the
Word properly. We examine ourselves by the word of God as I Cor. 11
says to do. You cannot examine yourself by cracker & grape juice
which many churches are calling the Lord's supper. This is not the
Lord's supper. The Lord's supper is the Word of God.)
22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children,
(A wild beast could be a person who comes among your children to lead them in wrong way and harm them greatly.)
and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; 24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of
my covenant:and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake
your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by
weight:and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will
chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 And ye shall eat the flesh
of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. 30 And I
will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your
carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
31
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto
desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
(Your religious works will all be in vain.)
32 And I will bring the land into desolation:and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 33 And
I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after
you:and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then
shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye
be in your enemies 'land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her
sabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did
not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth:and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in
your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall
they pine away with them. 40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and
the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed
against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; 41 And
that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into
the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be
humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant
with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I
will remember the land. 43 The land also shall be left of them, and
shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them:and they
shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity:because, even because
they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my
statutes.
44 And yet for all that, when
they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither
will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant
with them:for I am the Lord their God. 45 But I will for their sakes
remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of
the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their
God:I am the Lord.
46 These are the
statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the
children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.