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glimpse of what it is based upon:

5. What does the Bible say about predestination? Romans 8:29-30.

COMMENT: These verses carry on from the words, “according to his pur-
pose” and the tenses of the verbs are all aorist. The word “predestinate”
has to do with destiny being determined beforehand, and as we see and
have seen, this was decided before “the foundation of the earth” by
YEHOVAH God.

6. Understanding more about the “Book” gives more shape to the prophecy
about the resurrection. Notice Daniel 12:1.

COMMENT: Here is “the Book” again. Who are those resurrected? It is, “The
children of thy people”. That is, it is Israelites ONLY who have not had their
names taken out of the Book of Life! Those blotted out inherit “shame and
everlasting contempt”!

YEHOVAH God's Intent to Maintain Racial Integrity/Purity in His People

In case some have gotten the idea that racial intermarriage is acceptable if
there is no idolatry; this is not so because it is against YEHOVAH’s Law.
Throughout the Bible we can note a determination by YEHOVAH God to keep
one selection of people genetically pure and those who transgressed this “law
of God” were and will be, destroyed. The word “destroyed” is often the same
word that is translated as “spoiled”.

1. Is the temptation to transgress this law by yielding to the womanly wiles of
foreign women noted in the New Testament? I Corinthians 10:13.

COMMENT: The word “man” in context is the Israelite man. This does not
say every Israelite man would be tempted, because we know this is not true.
The background of the verse is about the time when Israelites had sexual re-
lationships with Moabite women in the days of Balaam. Those who did have
these relationships were slain! But this was not what they were slain for.

2. So what were they slain for? Numbers 25:2 and Deuteronomy 4:3.

COMMENT: They were slain for idolatry! Israelites are capable of loving the

shameful things foreign people do.

3. Is this confirmed by Hosea 9:10?

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