It was a gradual slide.
“This was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”
– Ezekiel 16:49 NKJV
He could hardly be more clear. “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”…
[Jeremiah 35:18,19] And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, … Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, … therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
[1.Samuel 28:6] The Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
[Genesis 5:5] And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Engineers were pleased. “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.” – James 1:2-3 KJV
They make a mess, but…