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K...
I want to know, and I know this is a hard question, but why
does God command His children
to not
kill, yet He also tells them,
when they came back from Egypt, to go in and
kill all the
people groups who live in the
land? I'm not questioning God, I just don't understand how
the two can fit together. I am stuck on this question. Do I
just need to accept it and go on or is there an
answer?
Dear Joshua, .... This is not a
hard question. If you read the
613 commandments of God,
you will find they were not to murder, but there are many
people groups which were not permitted to live and were to
be executed publically. When the Lord brought His people
into the Promised Land there were 7 nations to be utterly
destroyed in Deuteronomy chapter 7:1 to 5. God said He would
go before Israel and defeat these nations so they could
destroy them .Verse 6 gives the reason. In Chapter
13:12to16. if any of the established cities of Israel later
served other gods then, after careful inquiry and
investigation, they were also to be destroyed and all
therein. very harsh judgement indeed ! ... but nothing
compared to the Eternal flames and worms of Hell ... hope
this helps
K
..These are going to be
long and involed questions I sure hope you can help,
who are the
Kenites?.. and how can I prove
that Moses' father-in-law was not one (Kenite). And what was
the real sin in the garden? Because an apple seed surely can
not have enmity against some other seed. In Jesus Name' DRAC
(drac is short for= "decide right accept CHRIST")
Dear DRAC, The Kenites were a clan
of nomadic peoples of Sinai. In Judges 1:16 and 4:11 Moses
father in law is called a Kenite. Because Sinai was a source
of copper, the Kenites were skilled workers in copper and
bronze. The word "seed" used here refers to offspring. In
this case the children of the Devil and the children of God
or those who have been born again through the blood of Jesus
the Messiah
Our bible studies have led us
frequently into Old Testament stories. We often have
difficulties reconciling the commandment
'Thou shalt not
kill' with all the killing in
the Old testament, many times seemingly condoned or willed
by God. Please help us to understand.
Dear Marty, .... The Law of God
does not prohibit killing as punishment for crimes, or
killing in war, which God Himself commanded these same
people to do as they entered the Promised Land in order to
destroy the perversion and sexual impurity out of the land
that God was about to give them. It does prohibit killing
for malice, and premeditative and wilful destruction of our
fellow man who was made in the image of God (Gen 9:6). All
violence (21:12), assault and battery (21:18), hatred and
anger (Lev. 19:14,17), vengeance (lev. 19:18), .... Danger
to human life in general, was forbidden (Dt.
22:8).
The Israelites failed to completely
destroy the people and in fact inter - married with them and
built altars to their Heathen gods in High Places.
Eventually this brought down the Kingdom of Israel.
..."But when Mannasseh, Hezekiah's son took over the
Throne, he built up again the High Places of Abortion of
unwanted newborn babies, Pornography and Homosexuality.
There were also Sodomites in the Kingdom of Judah when "
Every man (and woman) did what was "right" in their own
eyes" The Sodomite (Gay and Lesbian) Headquarters was next
to the seat of Government in Jerusalem - 2 Kings 23:7
"And the LORD spake by his servants
the prophets, saying,: Because Manasseh king of Judah has
done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all
that the Amorites did, which were before him, and has made
Judah also to sin with his idols: Therefore thus says the
LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon
Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever hears of it, both his
ears shall tingle..... : and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man
wipes a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. And I
will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them
into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey
and a spoil to all their enemies; Because they have done
that which was evil in my sight,and have provoked me to
anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt,
even unto this day." 2 Kings 21 :10-15
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