For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it starts with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the gospel of God?
Look! I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that is called by my name, and y’all will go unpunished? Y’all will not be unpunished, for I will call down a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says YHWH Almighty.”’
Y’all are to slaughter the old men, the young men, the virgins, the little children, and the women. But y’all must not approach any man who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” Then they began with the old men who were before the house.
I will come near to y’all for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers, and those who exploit laborers, widows, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says YHWH Almighty.
Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.
By faith, Abraham when he was called, obeyed by going to a place where he would later receive an inheritance. He set out, without knowing where he was going.
For YHWH says: “See, if those who weren’t sentenced to drink the cup will drink-drink it, then why should you go unpunished-unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but you will drink-drink.
but if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
y’all also, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.