Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, to defile yourself with her. And you shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination. Nor shall you mate with any animal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion. Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you. (Leviticus 18:20-24)

How A Nation Is Defiled

The Law of Moses was given to the Hebrews after God delivered them from Egypt. Moses received the law from the Finger of God as a covenant between the Lord and Israel to establish them as the greatest nation on earth. With more than six hundred laws, Israel would be blessed by God if it obeyed the law and punished if it refused to keep it. The history of Israel lasted for less than nine hundred years when the Babylonians entered Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple of Solomon. God repeatedly warned the people not to become like the nations around them, but they could not resist. What brought the downfall of Israel was their desire to be like the people of the land, rather than righteous people of God.

To understand how Israel failed, one has but to look into the law given by God to find the reasons for the moral decay and final destruction. God warned the people about sexual immorality. Adultery was a sin, and accepting sexual immorality defiled the people and the land. Engaging in sex with someone outside of marriage was an abomination before the Lord God. Marriage was an institution in which a man and a woman were bound to one another for life. God created the law of marriage, established it, and demanded that it be kept. Israel refused. Fornication, adultery, and divorce became common in Israel.

Homosexuality was a sin because God created the man and woman as the sole proprietary institution of the sexual union. It is an abomination before God for same sex relations. The nations of the world (godless) accepted and made common homosexuality. They had their own LGBT-whatever list of abominations, including pedophilia, bestiality, and transvestitism. Israel was warned against accepting the perversions of the sexual union. Sexual immorality is the perversion, distortion, and falsification of the purpose of creation. There is no basic difference between a man being unfaithful to his wife with another woman than there is for a man to engage in sex with another man. God condemns them both.

Israel, as a nation of God, was destroyed because it became like the perverted world around them. God blessed them with His love and poured upon them all the divine blessings of a benevolent Father, but they desired the flesh more than the spirit. Israel became a godless nation. When any country accepts the agenda of a godless people, the nation becomes a godless nation. History shows time and again what happens to godless nations. Democracy is a wonderful institution of government, but the law of God is not a democracy. God has a will, and that will (His word) is established in Heaven. Man tries to change the law of God, but he only becomes a fool in the process. America is making a great fool of itself, walking in the footsteps of Israel.

The Law of Moses prescribed the death penalty for those who engaged in sexual immorality. While that law has been done away with and Christ has brought the law of grace into the world, the mind of God is clear about what He thinks of sexual immorality. Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, homosexuals, and sodomites will not inherit eternal life. Sexual immorality destroyed Israel, and it is destroying America. God will not long tolerate a nation that forgets Him and accepts the agenda of the godless world, engaging in the religion of Molech. A nation that forgets God profanes God.