When the terms of a contract are not respected, it can be broken at any time. (Isaiah 5: 1-6)

God effectively abandons an assembly that invokes him when the latter lives in sin, disorder and refuses to repent.  The same is true of a man who lets go of the Hand of the Lord.  After several insistences of the Lord by his servants, if the people on whom his name is invoked still persists in evil, then the Lord withdraws. Several examples attest to this:

  • God abandoned his home in Silo because of sin (