Revulsion
at something horrible is one thing, but sleeping and never seeing evil
is also evil. Why? Because that evil will freeze your senses and you may
be the victim. If the Jewish people (Israelis) did not turn into lions
after being slaughtered like sheep, and fought people like the modern Nazis Hamas, PLO or ISIS we would all
be be already exterminated. If Mossad did nothing, or the Nazi Hunter
Wiesenthal, we would be guilty. Yet, as Jews we must see horrors, we are
peacemakers, but not pacifists when facing evil. We must know what's
going on around us, so it won't catch us by surprise. Enough is enough.
King David was God's beloved, but his job was to fight Israel's enemy; hence, he was not allowed to build Beth HaMigdash (the Holy Temple), but Shlomo, the man of peace, Solomon was permitted to build the temple. One does the physical battle, but the other the peacemaking deal. I am not a soldier like the US Marine or Navy Seal. But others are anointed for it and it is of God's doing. It is necessary. (Later you will understand Elijah and Jehu.)
David had to do the repairing for those before him (under Joshua) did not finish the job as God had commanded. God saw the future, but the Israelites did not. They were humanists, pacifists, although dread and horror fell upon all the peoples of Canaan. Even hornets were sent before the army of Israel.
In 1967 when the Israeli army entered Bethlehem the Arabs cried that they come to slaughter them and they were ready for it. But instead the Israelis smiled, shook hands and gave them chocolates. Today Bethlehem us surrounded by high walls. No Israeli is allowed to enter Bethlehem.
When God anoints someone like Samson or Gideon He expects them to fully finish the job 100%, never partially. I am not anointed to do this. But God chooses mighty warriors to repay evil to the evildoer in His own time.
How many times must I repeat myself? You may say that this is the Old Testament, in the New Testament (in Christianity) we hate sin, but love the sinner. So go ahead and love the ISIS people. Try to separate their sin from them.
We have too much religious gibberish and much foolishness in our heads, no understanding and no knowledge of God and His ways regarding this evil world ... I repeat myself again.
If we do not cleanse it of evil we will perish along with the evildoers. We live by a very thin thread of grace.
Imagine the picture of Phineas piercing the copulating couple with his javelin.
Imagine Jehu's zeal that fell on him like a garment to fulfill Elijah's words of prophecy.
What did he say? "What have you to do with peace?"
Most do not feel God's zeal and His righteousness but some flimsy self-righteous pacifism. Yet, God shows us all the evils in this world and tests us by this show. What do you feel and what's your reaction? Are you so much into your own self that you are scared and therefore powerless? I could go on and preach with God's zeal here and lay my life down for you... Would that delight you?
Elijah was zealous for the Lord and he felt God's heart. But Jehu executed this wrath, how? Read some more:
Then imagine the graphic portrayal of Jezebel's death and the fulfillment of Elijah's prophecy:
David had to rectify many mistakes. Today, the Palestinian Arabs say, "Kill us first or we will kill you." The mayor of East Jerusalem, in 1980's said, we are the Canaanites you should have destroyed, just as God had commanded you to. But you failed to obey God; so now we will destroy you." This was written in the Jerusalem Post.
Should we not see the evil acts of Hitler; gassed, starved, Jewish corpses piled up in the most evil way imaginable? Yad Vashem in Jerusalem portrays but a mild picture of the Holocaust in comparison with what really took place.
If we do not get shocked we cannot fix this world on which we supposed to shed our light.
The German people were ordered to see the corpses. Yes, they wept, but rather for their mistake; for choosing a man who campaigned on the anti-Semitic ticket spilling his vehement hatred of the Jews for 24 years, wasn't that long enough? They wept for the loss of their hope of being great and rule the world for 1000 years. It's a human thing. They knew well, yet repeatedly they kept voting for the Nazi party until they got the Reichstag's majority. That's history.
Self-pity can be evil for it is no compassion. Self-pity is powerless, but compassion channels the power of God.
This is God's law of healing. When you feel true compassion you must then come out from your own secure and comfortable enclosure and feel the suffering of another and seek to do something about it. In it you will find a mix of revulsion, righteous zeal and compassion. That's what Moses felt when he killed the Egyptian for beating Hebrew slave. You may feel powerless, but when that powerlessness is presented to God something supernatural happens. I felt it many times and then God's power passed through me, even raising the dead.
Self-preservation (don't rock the boat, don't wake me up, don't shock me, be nice and sweet the way we like you and the way we have imagined you... Don't surprise us...) Pacifism. To pacify like with the baby's pacifier... make the kid suck on the rubber and don't you cry...
We do have tender hearts... but not for public display. We must have thick skin for the outside... and tender hearts within, for God. That is the material He seeks.
Israel has a law, which specifically stipulates that if you knew of evil and even though you have not taken part in it; you are still guilty because you have not intervened; so tacitly you have taken part in it. Yes, a friend of mine was arrested and spent time in prison just for that.
TACIT: understood or implied without being stated. "Your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement."
King David was God's beloved, but his job was to fight Israel's enemy; hence, he was not allowed to build Beth HaMigdash (the Holy Temple), but Shlomo, the man of peace, Solomon was permitted to build the temple. One does the physical battle, but the other the peacemaking deal. I am not a soldier like the US Marine or Navy Seal. But others are anointed for it and it is of God's doing. It is necessary. (Later you will understand Elijah and Jehu.)
David had to do the repairing for those before him (under Joshua) did not finish the job as God had commanded. God saw the future, but the Israelites did not. They were humanists, pacifists, although dread and horror fell upon all the peoples of Canaan. Even hornets were sent before the army of Israel.
In 1967 when the Israeli army entered Bethlehem the Arabs cried that they come to slaughter them and they were ready for it. But instead the Israelis smiled, shook hands and gave them chocolates. Today Bethlehem us surrounded by high walls. No Israeli is allowed to enter Bethlehem.
When God anoints someone like Samson or Gideon He expects them to fully finish the job 100%, never partially. I am not anointed to do this. But God chooses mighty warriors to repay evil to the evildoer in His own time.
[2Samuel 22:27] With the pure You show Yourself pure, and with the perverted You show Yourself astute.
[Psalm 18:26] With the pure You show Yourself pure, and with the crooked You show Yourself astute.
How many times must I repeat myself? You may say that this is the Old Testament, in the New Testament (in Christianity) we hate sin, but love the sinner. So go ahead and love the ISIS people. Try to separate their sin from them.
We have too much religious gibberish and much foolishness in our heads, no understanding and no knowledge of God and His ways regarding this evil world ... I repeat myself again.
If we do not cleanse it of evil we will perish along with the evildoers. We live by a very thin thread of grace.
[Numbers 25:7-8] When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand, [8] and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through the body. So the plague on the sons of Israel was checked.
Imagine the picture of Phineas piercing the copulating couple with his javelin.
Imagine Jehu's zeal that fell on him like a garment to fulfill Elijah's words of prophecy.
[2Kings 9:18] So a horseman went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger came to them, but he did not return.”
What did he say? "What have you to do with peace?"
Most do not feel God's zeal and His righteousness but some flimsy self-righteous pacifism. Yet, God shows us all the evils in this world and tests us by this show. What do you feel and what's your reaction? Are you so much into your own self that you are scared and therefore powerless? I could go on and preach with God's zeal here and lay my life down for you... Would that delight you?
Elijah was zealous for the Lord and he felt God's heart. But Jehu executed this wrath, how? Read some more:
[2Kings 9:22; 26] When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?” [26] ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,’ says the LORD, ‘and I will repay you in this property,’ says the LORD. Now then, take and cast him into the property, according to the word of the LORD.”
Then imagine the graphic portrayal of Jezebel's death and the fulfillment of Elijah's prophecy:
[36-37] This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; [37] and the corpse of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field in the property of Jezreel,' so they cannot say, “This is Jezebel.”
David had to rectify many mistakes. Today, the Palestinian Arabs say, "Kill us first or we will kill you." The mayor of East Jerusalem, in 1980's said, we are the Canaanites you should have destroyed, just as God had commanded you to. But you failed to obey God; so now we will destroy you." This was written in the Jerusalem Post.
Should we not see the evil acts of Hitler; gassed, starved, Jewish corpses piled up in the most evil way imaginable? Yad Vashem in Jerusalem portrays but a mild picture of the Holocaust in comparison with what really took place.
If we do not get shocked we cannot fix this world on which we supposed to shed our light.
The German people were ordered to see the corpses. Yes, they wept, but rather for their mistake; for choosing a man who campaigned on the anti-Semitic ticket spilling his vehement hatred of the Jews for 24 years, wasn't that long enough? They wept for the loss of their hope of being great and rule the world for 1000 years. It's a human thing. They knew well, yet repeatedly they kept voting for the Nazi party until they got the Reichstag's majority. That's history.
Self-pity can be evil for it is no compassion. Self-pity is powerless, but compassion channels the power of God.
[Matthew 14:14] When He went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and felt compassion for them and healed their sick.
This is God's law of healing. When you feel true compassion you must then come out from your own secure and comfortable enclosure and feel the suffering of another and seek to do something about it. In it you will find a mix of revulsion, righteous zeal and compassion. That's what Moses felt when he killed the Egyptian for beating Hebrew slave. You may feel powerless, but when that powerlessness is presented to God something supernatural happens. I felt it many times and then God's power passed through me, even raising the dead.
Self-preservation (don't rock the boat, don't wake me up, don't shock me, be nice and sweet the way we like you and the way we have imagined you... Don't surprise us...) Pacifism. To pacify like with the baby's pacifier... make the kid suck on the rubber and don't you cry...
We do have tender hearts... but not for public display. We must have thick skin for the outside... and tender hearts within, for God. That is the material He seeks.
Israel has a law, which specifically stipulates that if you knew of evil and even though you have not taken part in it; you are still guilty because you have not intervened; so tacitly you have taken part in it. Yes, a friend of mine was arrested and spent time in prison just for that.
TACIT: understood or implied without being stated. "Your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement."