Worse Perverse

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed. Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so. And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice; I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.-Judges 2:11-23***The Israelites knew that the Lord God promised to give Canaan to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son  Jacob (Israel) and to their descendants. Sometime after 147-year-old Jacob died in Egypt and his body was buried in Canaan, and after Jacob's children died in Egypt, their descendants the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt, fulfilling the words that the Lord God spoke to Abraham when Abraham was in a deep sleep. Aaron and his brother Moses were from the tribe of Levi, descended from Jacob and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. When Moses was 80 years old, the Lord God spoke to Moses and sent Moses and 83-year-old Aaron to speak to the Israelites and to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. After hearing the words spoken by Aaron, the Israelites believed and worshiped the Lord God. After the Lord God brought the 10th and final plague upon Pharaoh and Egypt, Pharaoh told Moses and Aaron to get the Israelites and their animals away from the Egyptians and go serve the Lord God. The 1st instance of distrust began when the Israelites, and those with them, were camped by the Red Sea and saw the Egyptian army. The Israelites cried and complained. The Lord God gave Moses commands, and the Lord God caused the water of the Red Sea to divide. The Israelites walked across the bed of the Red Sea and the Egyptians drowned. In the desert wilderness of Sin, the Israelites disobeyed the commands that the Lord God gave Moses regarding manna, the daily bread from heaven. In the desert wilderness of Sinai, when Moses was with the Lord God upon Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights, Aaron and the Israelites disobeyed the commandments that they had recently heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim to them. The Israelites told Aaron to make gods to go before them, and after receiving a collection of gold earrings from the Israelites, Aaron made a golden calf that the Israelites worshiped. In the desert wilderness of Paran, after 10 of the 12 spies Moses sent to the Promised Land returned with a frightening report, the Israelites disobeyed the commands of the Lord God. When Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and their followers rebelled against Moses and Aaron, the divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that they were also rebelling against the Lord God. In Shittim, the Israelite men engaged in specific acts with the Moabite women and worshiped their gods. Yet, the Lord God revealed that the generation of Israelites who lived upon the Promised Land after the death of Joshua, Moses' successor, behaved worse than the Israelites who lived before or during the 40-year journey from Egypt to the Jordan River, directly across from Canaan, the Promised Land. Over 1,000  years after Samuel, the priest, prophet and judge from the tribe of Levi, anointed Saul to reign as king over the Israelites, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 10:1-25:18, 26:1-27:23, 31:1-54, Deuteronomy 1:1-13:18, 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua, Judges, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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