In helping raise our only child, there were times when I would hold my hand up to my chin and say to him. “I have had it up to here, and the next time you do something wrong you’re going to have more trouble than you can handle.”<\/p>\n
By the tone of my voice, he knew it was time to tread carefully, because his mischief had reached a saturation point with me he had reached his limit.<\/p>\n
God also has a saturation point with evil. Note that six times in Amos God said, “For three transgressions, and for four….” (Amos 1:6-15; Amos 2:1-5). That form of expression is designed to convey a fullness of evil that had gone beyond the limit it had filled the cup of evil and overflowed beyond that which God could allow.<\/p>\n
God gave a promise to Abraham about the land that his descendants would inherit (Genesis 12:1-3). But that promise could not be fulfilled until the iniquity of the Amorite was full (Genesis 15:16).<\/p>\n
God has always operated on the principle that a nation which practices righteousness will not be destroyed, but a nation that becomes so evil that there is not enough salt to preserve it, must be destroyed (Proverbs 14:34; Jeremiah 18:5-17).<\/p>\n
There comes a point in time when even God says, “enough is enough.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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