2 Kings 17:1-23

Finally, the LORD had enough.  Israel had plunged so deeply into the idolatry that God had forbidden that there was no rescue.  God removed them from his sight.  He used Assyria to do so.  In so doing, he revealed how he works to bring about judgment during this era.  The paganism that the Israelites sought after was their undoing.  So, today, multitudes are drinking, doping, smoking, and illicit sexing themselves to death.   God need not visit us with a plague.  We are killing ourselves.  The protective hand of God keeps us alive, until even he says “enough.” 

LORD, open our eyes to what we are doing to ourselves, before it is too late to repent.