10 … Samaria was taken. 11 The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, ~ 2 Kings 18:10b-11
In those days, when a king conquered a land, territory, people, or another nation, he would remove the majority of the people from that country and replace them with people from other conquered countries. Sometimes, he would remove all the people from their homeland and deport them to another country.
Why would he do that? So that there would be no rebellion that he would have to deal with.
If the people were all in different lands, why would they rebel? Why would they want to rise up and take back a country that is not their own?
Then, their own home country would be repopulated with people from other conquered cities or countries. In so doing, the whole culture of that region would be changed forever. That is what happened to Samaria. When Assyria conquered them, they were all moved out of Samaria and into other countries.
Today, they are trying to remove sheep from the sheepfold and replace them with goats. In other words, the desire of the world is to no longer have Christians, but a watered-down Gospel that cannot change anyone. That is why Christian spaces are being attacked and the world is trying to change them entirely. They want to completely snuff out the Light, so that darkness will reign.
Therefore, don’t allow the Devil to separate you from the LORD. Make a stand. Refuse to call evil good and good evil. Learn the Word of the LORD and build a strong relationship with God so that you won’t be able to be deceived and spiritually removed from the sheepfold.
Peace. Love. Go Forth and Stay A Sheep.
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