Adam and Eve!

• POW - slapped a curse on them all - Genesis 3:13-19
• He then let them live it out!
• Genesis 3:22-24 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.  So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

• He destroyed all but 8!
• Genesis 6:5-9
• Jesus even talked about them.  Luke 17:26,27 - And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.) They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
• As did Jesus talk about Sodom and Gomorra - Luke 17:28-30 - Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.  Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

• What about Noah when he messed up his last days?
• Nothing said, anyway, at his end.
• Genesis 9:28,29 - And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.  And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

• Genesis 11:1-9
• God confounded them!
• Confound - Websters 1828

v.t. [L., to pour out. Literally, to pour or throw together.]
1. To mingle and blend different things, so that their forms or natures cannot be distinguished; to mix in a mass or crowd, so that individuals cannot be distinguished.
2. To throw into disorder.
3. To mix or blend, so as to occasion a mistake of one thing for another.
4. To perplex; to disturb the apprehension by indistinctness of ideas or words.
5. To abash; to throw the mind into disorder; to cast down; to make ashamed.
6. To perplex with terror; to terrify; to dismay; to astonish; to throw into consternation; to stupify with amazement.
7. To destroy; to overthrow.
• CONFOUNDED, pp.

1. Mixed or blended in disorder; perplexed; abashed; dismayed; put to shame and silence; astonished.
2. Enormous; as a confounded tory. [Vulgar.]

• Remember his big mistake?  Genesis 16:11,12 We ought to - we are still seeing the results of it all today!
• Genesis 25:7,8 - he died! And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.  Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
• Romans 4:16-22
• Luke 16:19-31
• And remember that the heathen then were the Gentiles - US! ahem!

• Even Moses wanted to give up on his folks...  "...ye rebels..." Numbers 20:10
• ...and it cost him....  Numbers 20:12 - And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
• He died yet his burial was unknown! - Deuteronomy 34:5-7
• God still had plans for Moses!  Jude 9, Revelation 11

I have to say though, it is hard to step aside through it all - it really is.  I also can not give up on the folks nor should they give up on me as their pastor / preacher / teacher!

He didn't give up on The Jews

• Forgiveness was always still available - even before Christ died, it was called remission, etc.
• See Mark 3:28 - Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:

• Blasphemy is now the issue...
• Mark 3:29-30 - But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation: Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
• Luke 12:10 - And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.

• God did finally put His own on 'hold" so Paul could go to the Gentiles with a 'more perfect' way of God, but He still has not given up on his people - Romans 10:19; 11:8-10; Romans 11:25: For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

• ...a former blasphemer himself - I Timothy 1:13 -  Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Jews blasphemed God in their testimony to the Gentiles - Romans 2:24 -  For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

• Men - I Timothy 6:1
• Women - Titus 2:5

However, note that Paul did let some folks 'go!'
I TImothy 1:19,20 - Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

• And in the tribulation, there will be a sin unto death!
• I John 5:16 - If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.