Today's Favorite Verse: Ezekiel 16:20

Today's Favorite Verse: Ezekiel 16:20

"Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,"

I don't like to admit it but when I saw this chapter speaking against the high places and playing the harlot I thought, not again! Boy, did I learn my lesson about what was really, really bothering the Lord. It wasn't anger over them not worshipping Him, it was really all about how this behavior harmed others. They killed children!!! That is the most offense thing a person can do. It was no small matter.

"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

(Matthew 18:6)

When you lose your love of God, and worship other things in his place, the adversary becomes your master. That can lead you down a path that is beyond horrible. The agency of man, the right to choose right from wrong, God protects. When you destroy the innocents ability to make good choices, by teaching them that evil is good and good is evil you are in essence taking away their agency to choose. God looks at the physical and spiritual death of a child at our hands as most abominable. I think that is ultimately when He says enough.

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Today's Favorite Verse: Esther 9:12, 15-16

Today's Favorite Verse: Esther 9:12, 15-16
"And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.
For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey."

It amazes me that even thought king Ahasuerus hanged Haman and allowed a decree by Mordecai in his name that all the Jews could defend themselves, that there were still people that rose up to kill the Jews. Even right inside the palace. It doesn't mention how many Jews were killed, but it does mention at total of 5,880 of their enemies being killed.

You would think their enemies wouldn't dare to attack the Jews. Hatred is blind and I guess it never makes sense why people attack and kill. Sadly, I could see people today capable of this same insanity. It doesn't make sense why people have so much hate that they would destroy business and homes in their own towns. If anything this event was a witness to the true danger the Jews were in of being slaughtered. I think it great wisdom that the Jews took no plundered from their enemies. It showed they were not the aggressors. The whole matter is truly sad. 


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