Detestable Sin

“Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things, for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you” (Leviticus 18)

This passage follows a long list of sexual sins that were prohibited by God including… sex with an animal, sex with someone of the same gender, sex with a relative, etc.

These sins are called detestable and so detestable that the land where they lived vomited them out. Of course we know that the vomiting was God empowering the Israelites to kill and run them out of the land. Note that not all sin is called “detestable”

Israel is warned that if they duplicate the sexual sins then the land would also vomit them out too.

It kind of makes you wonder about the good old USA, could the practice of detestable sexual sin in the USA cause the land to “vomit us out”?

Although I don’t know for sure I’m guessing yes. Knowing that we shouldn’t stay silent about “detestable sexual sin”