SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU oppressing the poor, widows, and orphans through many ways such as grabbing their properties, flogging them due to inability to pay off their debts, inheriting the widows and many other evil practices yet the heart of God is in respecting and helping the poor, needy, widows and orphans [PROVERBS 22:22, AMOS 4:1, ZECHARIAH 7:10]. The rich did this just because offering sacrifices was not a problem to them. The poor at times offered animals which were lame, stolen and yet they knew that these offerings had to be holy and without blemish [LEVITICUS 1:10, 4:23, 4:32]. To the priests also developed a habit of greed and gluttony that they reached 39
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