Well it’s true, of course that the final judgment has not yet come; God has delayed his final reckoning. But if you look to past history, if you look to these great marks of judgments, these things stand there in history and in the pages of the Word of God as warnings. Certainly, this is true of the Jewish invasion of Canaan. It's God's way of saying that there is judgment even among the nations. Righteousness exalts a nation, but a nation that goes the way of sin and perversions is inevitably brought down. These things also stand as a warning of a judgment to come finally at the end of time. We mustn't think that God will be any different with us than he was for those ancient cultures. 

Yesterday we concluded our study by mentioning some practices Israel was commanded to avoid. It's worth commenting on a few of these practices. The first one given was that of sacrificing children to the fire. The Canaanites had a god whose name was Moloch. He was a particularly cruel god. There were statues made to him, generally out of bronze. This figure, where it's been found, is always one that stands holding out both arms in front of him to receive a sacrifice. What the Canaanites did, apparently, was to heat that bronze statue until it was red hot, and then they would take their young children and infants, and place them in the red-hot arms of Moloch as a sacrifice.