When the church loses sight of God's determination to create a holy nation from among His chosen people, it is repeating the same mistakes as Israel of old. It begins to mislead God's people was due to the great corruption that begins to creep in upon society because it has abandoned God's ethics, “…the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost" (Ezra 9:2).