The story of the nation of Israel, the ten tribes which constituted the northern kingdom, is that of moral apostasy, the danger to a nation which gives itself over to what it supposes is liberty, disregarding what is right and just, and choosing instead to act in ways that ignored everything that God had warned them against since the Israelites had entered the Promised Land.

There is one thing that we should all keep in mind when reading these books of the Old Testament. Although these problems occurred historically to the nation of Israel, they also have been recorded for us, as examples of what dangers and stumbling blocks the Church would encounter.

Although these historical accounts were inspired by God the Holy Spirit, there is something in common between the nation of Israel and today’s Church – both Israel and the modern Church consisted of human beings with a flesh-controlled carnal nature.