Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates? “Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts. “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute. Jesus answered, for this is what the LORD says: If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him. I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope for “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. No one comes to the Father except through Me. “I am the way and the truth and the life. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:24-26
John 14:5-7
Jermiah 29:10-12
Jeremiah 2:18-20
