Anything Done On Your Own Be It Good Or Bad – Does Not Find Favor In G-d’s Sight

Only if you do or not do because G-d tells you so, such is favorable in the eyes of G-d.

*Deuteronomy 12:8, Judges 17:6 and 21:25

Not what you believe. But as G-d revealed.

“Damascus”

“Idol Worship – Ceased”

A prophecy concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will be negated from being a city, and it will be a heap of rubble.
17:1
It shall be on that day that the honor of Jacob will diminish and the fatness of his flesh grow lean.
:4
Only gleamings will remain on him, like a picked olive tree, with two or three olives on the top of the highest branch, or four or five on its flourishing boughs — the word of Hashem, God of Israel.
:6
On that day, man will turn to his Maker and his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
:7
He will not turn to the altars of his own handiwork; and to what his fingers made he will not look, nor [to] the Asherah-trees or the sun-images.
:8
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the Rock of your stronghold; because you had been planted as pleasant saplings, but you sow strange shoots.
:10

1 The harsh prophecy concerning Damascus; Behold Damascus shall be removed from [being] a city, and it shall be depth of ruins.
2 The cities of Aroer shall be abandoned; for the flocks shall they be, and they shall lie undisturbed.
3 And a fortress shall cease from Ephraim and a kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram; like the glory of the children of Israel shall they be, says the Lord of Hosts.
4 And it shall come to pass on that day, that the glory of Jacob shall become impoverished and the fatness of his flesh shall become emaciated.
5 And it shall be like gathering the harvest of the standing grain, and his arm reaps ears, and he shall be as one who gathers ears of grain in the valley of Rephaim.
6 And gleanings shall be left in it like the cutting of an olive tree, two or three berries at the end of the uppermost bough; four or five on its branches when it produces fruit, says the Lord, God of Israel.
7 On that day, man shall turn to his Maker, and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not turn to the altar of the work of his hands, and what his fingers made he shall not regard, neither the asherim nor the sun-images.
9 On that day, the cities of his strength shall be like the abandonment of the forest and the many branched trees which they abandoned from before the children of Israel, and it became a waste.
10 For you forgot the God of your salvation, and the Rock of your strength you did not remember; because I planted you with pleasant saplings, and with the branch of a stranger you sow it.
11 On the day of your planting you mingled, and in the morning you cause your seed to blossom; a heap of harvest on a day of sickness and mortal pain.
12 Woe to a multitude of many peoples, like the roaring of seas they roar; and a rushing of nations, like the rushing of mighty waters they rush.
13 Nations, like the rushing of many waters, they rush, and He shall rebuke them, and he shall flee from afar, and he shall be pursued like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the thistle blossoms before the tempest.
14 At eventide, behold there is fright; before morning he is no more. This is the portion of our plunderers and the lot of our spoilers.