Proverbs 6:12-15 English Standard Version
12 A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
13 winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger,
14 with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;
15 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
None are as foolish as those that lie to themselves. Each of us that have accepted Christ into our hearts have been warned. Each of us saw something in ourselves that we just had to repent of in order to find salvation.
Pride is the stumbling block to repentance and judgment is its greatest excuse.
Luke 18 The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ 13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
It is not like the Pharisee had not read his Torah, he had. The law was given so that sin could be seen as very sinful, but the Pharisee only saw sin in others, not in himself.
Every sinful act of man has been exemplified in the Old Testament. The consequences of those sins have also been shown. “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill.
Perhaps the greatest mistake in all of history is when the bible was taken out of our schools as a prime source of history, truth, consequences and hope for their future. We were warned.
Fear God, Wait for the Lord
For the Lord spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. But the Lord of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”