Today,
reply is on divine wrath against sin, the duty of covenant partners
to enforce covenant law, and the faithfulness of GOD as a
covenant-keeper. Mankind has ongoing relationship with divinity only
through the character, makeup, and operations of GOD, rather than
through finite human abilities and self-will. Man must rely on
sacred elements that include divine forbearance, grace, faithfulness,
longsuffering, lovingkindness, eternal purpose, and wisdom.
Correction and punishment from GOD are not arbitrary, capricious,
lawless, or imposed without warnings. Those guilty of offenses are
granted a season of grace wherein guidance and instruction are
available along with opportunities to change, gradually grow, learn,
and display improved attitudes and behavior. It is written: Hebrews
12: 3-10, King James Version (KJV): 3 For consider him that endured
such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and
faint in your minds. 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving
against sin. 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh
unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of
the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for
what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be
without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye
bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our
flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence:
shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits,
and live? 10 For they verily for a few days chastened us
after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we
might be partakers of his holiness. One of the fighters in the
“Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion & Spirituality
using the ID “Anonymous” (no profile information shared) posted
the following:
"Do
not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and
sheep, camel and donkey" - Is this a command to commit genocide?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my
covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the
accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they
have put it even among their own stuff. Therefore the
children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but
turned their backs before their enemies, because they were
accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the
accursed from among you. Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify
yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel:
thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the
accursed thing from among you. (Joshua 7: 11-13, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Sin Opposes All Existence (12/13/2019); A Death
Penalty Necessary? (11/27/2019); Those Who Prefer Evil (09/02/2019);
A Divine Covenant Partner (06/11/2019); Blaspheming the Holy Spirit
(05/08/2019); Transgression of Sacred Law? (10/25/2018); Judgment
Against The Canaanites (08/01/2018)
“Anonymous”,
the conditions for covenant agreement with GOD include both accepting
correction, and cancellation of the relationship with divine
fullness. The words you ask about are not being spoken to a gang of
liars, thieves, and murderers by a criminal boss to exhort and give
license to violence. Rather, they are words from GOD as a jealous,
yet, righteous judge spoken against his marriage partners on the
earth (the 7 tribes of Canaan) who have betrayed him, entered into
adulterous worship with idols and lesser gods, and have scorned all
his displays of forgiveness, lovingkindness, and mercy in judgment.
GOD speaks to the anointed and ordained officers of the court (we
say, the executioners) who are lawfully authorized to carry out
sentence against those who repeatedly attack divine order. They are
not being surrendered to destruction because of their existence as
carnal, finite, and material; because of their ethnicity, race, and
national origin; or because of their human limitations and struggles
resulting from gender and sexuality. It is not that divinity is
pursuing blood because of bias, discrimination, partiality, or
prejudice. It is that behaving as incorrigible, their own
commitment, process, and substance contradict and oppose the
continued existence of divine law, the Lawgiver, and the universe
that makes manifest the invisible person of GOD. Consider again the
following that uses language from the Bible, and a selection from the
music ministry of Wintley Phipps:
(1.)
Deuteronomy 7: 1-10, King James Version (KJV): 1 When the Lord thy
God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it,
and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the
Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater
and mightier than thou; 2 And when the LORD thy
God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and
utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew
mercy unto them: 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy
daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt
thou take unto thy son. 4 For they will turn away thy son from
following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of
the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee
suddenly. 5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their
altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and
burn their graven images with fire. 6 For thou art an holy
people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD
thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above
all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD
did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more
in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all
people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and
because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers,
hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand,
and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of
Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD
thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant
and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a
thousand generations; 10 And repayeth them that hate him to their
face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him,
he will repay him to his face.
(2.)
Leviticus 26: 13-21, KJV: 13 I am the LORD
your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye
should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your
yoke, and made you go upright. 14 But if ye will not hearken unto
me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall
despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye
will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my
covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over
you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the
eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain,
for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face against
you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you
shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. 18
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will
punish you seven times more for your sins. 19 And I will break the
pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your
earth as brass: 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for
your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of
the land yield their fruits.
(3.)
Hebrews 10: 26-29, KJV: 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we
have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more
sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment
and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28 He
that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three
witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be
thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath
counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an
unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended (for example, (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvwyLnHtXZ8.)
Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you
according to your faith.
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