God Father is giving all of us a major warning with ways that He has these two verses worded. A perfect example of these two verses in actual operation are Muslim suicide bombers. Many of these suicide bombers are young kids. They have been brought up being brainwashed by extremist element of Islam, and they really do think they are going straight to heaven if they are willing to blow themselves up and anyone else they can take with them.

This is a perfect example of these young kids being led into "captivity" as a result of not having appropriate knowledge to fully understand what they are getting into in first place. And then when they actually take their own lives in these suicide bombings, they are literally being "destroyed" as a result of this lack of knowledge.

That is why seeking after knowledge of God is so important with all crazy and demonic things that are going on in this world. Having God's knowledge on certain things, situations, different issues and topics is what can keep you from getting entangled into something that could end up turning deadly on you.

These two verses should be memorized by every Christian. Here they are:

1. "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6)
2. "Therefore My people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge ..." (Isaiah 5:13)

4. Knowledge and Wisdom are Better than all Material Things of This World

These next 7 verses are once again making a very radical statement. God is literally telling us that knowledge and wisdom that we can receive from Him is better and more valuable than all silver, gold and rubies of this world. In other words, knowledge and wisdom that you can receive from God is better than all material wealth that this world has to offer!

Even as I started dating a Chinese girl, I knew I was embarking on a remarkable adventure. I just had no idea where and how far adventure would take me. The more events unfolded, more I realized that my view of world and how I lived in it were being profoundly and permanently altered...

If problem with marrying a gentile was that my religion prohibited intermarriage, why should that bother me? Perhaps not everything in Judaism made sense, and as an intelligent and thinking individual I could take from my heritage what I felt was meaningful and disregard rest...

The possibility that God Himself does not want a Jew to marry a gentile is not something I recall being taught explicitly. This may be because, even though I believed in God in my own nebulous way, I didn’t take seriously proposition that God authored Torah. For one thing, I considered many claims in Torah absurd: that world is less than 6,000 years old, that Noah lived more than 900 years and built an ark to house planet’s animals, and that a sea parted miraculously to enable Hebrews to escape their Egyptian pursuers. As far as I was concerned, these were stories with possible moral messages but not actual facts. If Bible were true, then theory of evolution, and much of science, must be wrong. In a world where humans went to moon, performed brain surgery, and saw and talked to people on other side of planet, I had far more trust in what modern science presumed than in what Bible stated...

Quest for a Life Partner

I was expected to marry one of my people. Not to do so would be a shocking betrayal of my family. The prohibition against intermarriage was so ingrained that it was hardly an appropriate subject to bring up for a family discussion...

Whereas my siblings sought only Jewish spouses, I kept my options open. I was not convinced of necessity to restrict my search for a mate to those of my religion, especially as we constituted a tiny minority (a fraction of one percent) of human population. Moreover, I encountered females, from various religions and backgrounds, who were extremely nice, good-natured, and attractive. My motto about intermarriage, as in other areas of life, was “I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.”

Sino-Attraction

In summer of 1994, three years after I left my parents’ home in Montreal and was living on my own in Toronto, I met Belinda. I was twenty-nine; she was twenty-five. We quickly became friends.

“Would you like to see my snake?” Belinda asked, as I dropped her off in front of her building.

My heart pounded and raced.

“Okay,” I heard myself saying. I knew that sooner or later she would show me her pet. I hadn’t reckoned it would be so soon.

Belinda ran inside and returned shortly with a tiny corn snake tucked into her sleeve. Once in car, she let me hold it. It was first time I had held a snake. Instinctively, I applied my peripheral vision to clammy, slender creature in my palm, imagining it was some inanimate object.