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John Ritenbaugh, focusing on the seventh commandment, suggests that adultery in all its manifestations has become a seething snake pit, with the incessant attack on the marriage institution and the corresponding sanctification of immorality threatening to destroy our culture. In the prophecy of Amos characterizing modern Israel"s national sins, faithlessness and disgusting prurient sexual immorality loom the most prominent. The Israelitish peoples are so faithless they can not keep their word or their covenants on macro and micro levels, metaphorically described as a whore (a streetwalker) chasing after lovers. The spirit of harlotry (faithlessness and deceit) permeates the entire culture of modern Israel, creating a shell of detachment, separation or protectiveness'detached from each other and detached from God. Whoredom, deceit, and idolatry takes away the heart, becoming incrementally addictive like wine or strong spirits, making people abject slaves, destroying discretion and understanding. Pleasing the self becomes more important than pleasing God. Israel has trouble being faithful to anything'mate, boss, government, contracts, let alone God Almighty. Reliability, faithfulness, consistency, and dependability (all byproducts of love) have seriously deteriorated in modern Israel. Interestingly the most common deterrents to adultery (fear of being caught, guilty conscience, lack of opportunity, or personal desire to be faithful) fail to incorporate yielding to God"s Law. We need to make sure that faithlessness and deterioration of morals do not occur in the Israel of God.

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