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               glimpse of what it is based upon:


               5. What does the Bible say about predestination? Romans 8:29-30.


               COMMENT:  These  verses  carry  on from the words, “according to his pur-
               pose”  and  the  tenses  of  the  verbs  are  all  aorist. The word  “predestinate”
               has to do with destiny being determined beforehand, and as we see and
               have seen, this  was decided  before “the foundation  of  the earth”  by
               YEHOVAH God.

               6. Understanding more  about the “Book” gives more shape to the prophecy
               about the resurrection. Notice Daniel 12:1.


               COMMENT: Here is “the Book” again. Who are those resurrected? It is, “The
               children of thy people”. That is, it is Israelites ONLY who have not had their
               names taken out of the Book of Life! Those blotted out inherit “shame and
               everlasting contempt”!

               YEHOVAH God's Intent to Maintain Racial Integrity/Purity in His People


               In case some have gotten the idea that racial intermarriage  is acceptable  if
               there  is  no  idolatry;  this  is  not  so  because it  is  against  YEHOVAH’s  Law.
               Throughout the Bible we can note a determination by YEHOVAH God to keep
               one selection of people genetically pure and those who transgressed this “law
               of God” were and will be, destroyed. The word “destroyed” is often the same
               word that is translated as “spoiled”.

               1. Is the temptation to transgress this law by yielding to the womanly wiles of
               foreign women noted in the New Testament? I Corinthians 10:13.


               COMMENT:  The  word  “man” in  context is the Israelite man. This does not
               say every Israelite man would be tempted, because we know this is not true.
               The background of the verse is about the time when Israelites had sexual re-
               lationships with Moabite women in the days of Balaam. Those who did have
               these relationships were slain! But this was not what they were slain for.

               2. So what were they slain for? Numbers 25:2 and Deuteronomy 4:3.


               COMMENT: They were slain for idolatry! Israelites are capable of loving the


               shameful things foreign people do.


               3. Is this confirmed by Hosea 9:10?





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