Leviticus 18:24

"Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you; and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants. Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you. (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled;) that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practice not any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God."

Note the recurrence of the word "abominations" in Leviticus 18:26,27 and Leviticus 18:29, also "abominable customs" in Leviticus 18:30. The utter abhorrence of God against such wickedness is inherent in the repeated usage of such terminology.

Here is also an excellent place to find the answer as to why God exterminated the peoples of Canaan. It was simply because they deserved it. Here also is a warning for wicked societies which today are slipping into those old, discarded, outlawed, and depraved customs. One sometimes hears about the "New Morality!" Indeed, indeed! What is NEW about such conduct as that which surfaces in these verses? What is being peddled today under the label of A NEW MORALITY is nothing but THE OLD, GOD-CONDEMNED; VICIOUS; AND REPROBATE MORALITY of ancient times, trying to get back in style. How blind are the duped and deceived people who think of this as something NEW! The truth is, that if one of the citizens of ancient Babylon, Carthage, or Canaan could be resurrected and brought back to one of our great wicked American cities and given a tour of all its dens of licentious shame and debauchery, he would be bored to death! He would stifle a colossal yawn about 2:00 a.m., and exclaim, "Why we did all that, only better, thousands of years ago!"

Some of the self-appointed "do-gooders" who like to shudder about God's consignment of ancient Canaan to the torch and the sword should consider what is written here. There was a reason why God ordered their destruction. They had become a depraved, wicked, rebellious people, opposed to God and to all righteousness. They murdered their children in the bronze arms of Molech. Wives and husbands were replaced with animals. Men were marrying their own mothers, sisters, and daughters. What is God supposed to do about a situation like that? These verses tell us what He should have done and what He did. Furthermore, a similar thing will happen to us in America unless the encroachment of such diabolical sins can be contained and hurled back into hell from which they came!

"We are living in a day when the moral foundations have been broken up and removed. Who makes the rules? And, what is right and wrong? the skeptics ask."[14] And in our world today, there are plenty of people trying to seize the authority of God Himself, and make the rules by which men should live. We shall close with this additional quotation from an old book:

"If you can create a whole universe - and you will need a whole planetary system with sun, moon, and stars - then you can make your own commandments. But as long as you are living in God's world, breathing His air, using His sunshine, drinking His water, walking on His earth, and not even paying rent for it, you had better obey His commands. He tells us that if we disobey His commands, we will pay for it! You may not be arrested by the local police, but you will stand before GOD some day!"[15]