Leviticus 26:30

Leviticus 26:30 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.  This is a continuation of what God said He would do to the people of Israel if they did not obey Him and chased after idols.  God would tear down their idols and cast their dead bodies on the idols.  If we do not accept Jesus as our Savior and Lord and follow after false gods instead, we will one day have our spiritually dead bodies cast away into hell.  Verse thirty-one adds,  And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.  God said that He would destroy their cities and sanctuaries and not accept their sacrifices.  Just because we say that we are sacrificing something to God does not mean that He has to accept it.  Verse thirty-two continues, And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.  God told the people of Israel that He would bring their land to desolation and that their enemies that lived in the land would be astonished by it.  We should not be surprised that the enemies of God live in our midst, even if we call our self a Christian nation.  Verse thirty-three states, 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.  God said if the people of Israel did not obey His laws that He would once again scatter them among the heathen and leave their land desolate.  God had called them to be His people and had gathered them together in the promised land, and He could remove His protection and allow them to once again be a scattered and defeated people.  We are God's people today because of His calling us to salvation and providing it for us, and we must follow His guidance if we are to be spiritually powerful in the world.  Verse thirty-four adds, 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.  God said that if the people of Israel did not give the land its sabbaths that He would.  This should be a warning to us to keep the Lord's Day, our sabbath, devoted to God.  Verse thirty-five continues, As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.  Again, God told them that when He allowed them to be defeated that the land would have its sabbaths, which the people would have not observed.  Verse thirty-six declares, 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.  God said that when He removed His protection from them instead one man of Israel chasing many that they would become so weak that they would flee when their wasn't even anyone chasing them.  Verse thirty-seven adds, 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.  Without God, the people of Israel would be powerless before their enemies.  Without the empowerment of the Holy Spirit in our lives we are also powerless before the enemies that we face.  We must rely on God's guidance and empowerment if we are to be spiritually successful in the world today.  Verse thirty-eight continues, And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.  Then verse thirty-nine concludes, 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.  Those of the people of Israel who remained would live in the lands of their enemies and pine away in the iniquities of the land.  Until we accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord, we will be enemies of heaven and will never be content in life but will always pine away wanting something more.