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                     I do not think that Yahweh would depict America as a beautiful woman dressed in
               white. The land of America has truly become polluted by the grievous sins committed in the
               land. The blood of more than 50 million babies has stained the land, and the stain cannot
               be washed away.

                       Numbers 35:33-34
                       So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the
                       land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed
                       on it, except by the blood of him who shed it. Therefore do not defile the land
                       which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I Yahweh dwell among the
                       children of Israel.


                     Describing the land as a married woman is a well utilized device used by Yahweh in
               the Scriptures. There is benefit in examining these passages, for they reveal many things,
               including Yahweh’s abhorrence of sexual defilement, as well as the grounds for divorce, and
               the restoration of one who has been divorced.
                     In the following passage we see Yahweh describing the adulterous behavior of His
               wives, Israel and Judah. He speaks of divorcing Israel and sending her away from His
               presence, for she had stained herself with the pollution of her adultery.

                       Jeremiah 3:6-9
                       Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen what
                       faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree,
                       and she was a harlot there." And I thought, 'After she has done all these things,
                       she will return to Me'; but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw
                       it. And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her
                       away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not
                       fear; but she went and was a harlot also. And it came about because of the
                       lightness of her harlotry, that she polluted the land and committed
                       adultery with stones and trees.”
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