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God slew and Changed Minds for His Purposes |
Create Date: 22-May-2016 |
| Joshua instructed to not leave anything that breathes |
Last updated: 12-Jun-2022 |
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| 1 | God Takes No Pleasure | 2 | God Slew - Righteously or God Refrained |
| 3 | Do Not Leave Anything Alive That Breathes | 4 | God Sometimes Hardens a Heart to Sin |
God takes no pleasure in anyone's death, Exodus 18:32. Part of understanding Eternity with God is the fulfillment, that those in Heaven will receive by enjoying the happiness of others. It is the opinion of many Biblical Scholars that our senses will be amplified which will have new abilities to understand, enjoy and feel the happiness of others. God obviously already has this ability and enjoys righteous happiness in our lives, which is received by us, along with us giving to others.
| Ezekiel 18:30-32 | 30 “Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. 31 Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, people of Israel? 32 For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live! |
| 1 | Genesis 38:7 | But Er, Judah's first born was evil in the sight of the Lord so the Lord took his life |
| 2 | Chronicles 2:3 | Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight on the Lord, so He put him to death. |
| 3 | Genesis 38:10 | But what he (Onan) did was displeasing (evil) in the sight of the Lord, so He took his life also. |
| 4 | Exodus 4 Example of immediate mercy |
In this chapter of the Scriptures, God is angry at Moses and it is
revealed to us that God had the
prerogative of killing Moses but Moses was
saved by his wife Zipporah as God knew would happen.
24 At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him. 25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it.“Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. 26 So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.) |
| 5 | Numbers 3:4 | Nadab and Abihu, however, died before the Lord when they made an offering with unauthorized fire before Him in the Desert of Sinai. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron. |
| 6 | Numbers 16:24 Numbers 16:31-32 Numbers 26:10 |
This is the incident of the evil group of Korah, Dathan and Abiram
who were behind the rebellion of the Golden Calf.
The whole group went to Sheol.
24 "Speak to the congregation, saying, 'Get back from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.'" 31 As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open; 32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions. 33 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. 10 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up along with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, so they became warning. |
| 7 | Numbers 14:37 | When the 12 spies came back from the Promise Land and 10 of the bad spies gave a bad report except for Joshua and Caleb. "the men who brought up a bad report of the land—died by plague before the LORD." |
| 8 | Joshua 5:13 and Joshua 6:20-21 |
Jesus Christ, in an Old Testament Theophany appearance, fought the battle of
Jericho. In Joshua 5:13, Joshua confront
a "man" and Joshua is commanded to take off his shoes because the places
Joshua's stands is holy. Angels do not allow themselves to be
worshipped. In this battle, the scriptures point out that the Lord
fought the Battle because the Lord gave the inhabitants in Jericho to
Joshua's men for destruction. (Joshua 5:13-6:2) "5:15 The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so. 6:1 Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. 6:2 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men." It is as if the Lord is saying to the men of Israel that you will be allowed to kill them all, and indeed that is what it meant. Only Rahab, a future gentile bride and her family in her house, were spared and is very important in the royal blood line of Jesus Christ as read in Joshua 6:17. Joshua 6:20-21 "20 When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. 21 They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys." |
| 9 | 2 Kings 19:35 | And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. |
| 10 | Ezekiel 38 | In Joshua 5:13, it describes the future Gog and Magog
invasion where God will intervene in the affairs of mankind and will destroy
Gog and Magog. In verse 22 the death blow is described
- And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. |
| 11 | Revelation 20:7-8 | And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down out of heaven, and devoured them. |
Many Christians are unaware of the primary reason for the Great Flood. If sin was the only reason, then why did God even bother having the Great Flood as sin has continued and most likely it has even got worse. The reason that many Biblical Scholars point out is primary reason was the Nephilim outbreak which was rampant and also about to affect the royal blood line of the future Messiah Jesus Christ.
God dealt with the Fallen Angels who participated in the outbreak prior to the Great Flood, and the second time when it happened again as Israel enters the Promise Land by sending these Fallen Angels to a prison identified as Tartarus, which is a compartment of lower Sheol.
When Israel was preparing to enter the Promise Land, God instructs Joshua to wipe out everything that breathes. If the Christian is unaware of the Nephilim, then it is hard for the Christian to understand why God would have Israel's soldiers kill enemy non-combatants such as women, children, babies and even animals.
| Deuteronomy 20:16-18 | 16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God. |
When we take into account the Nephilim and the worship of false gods, then the instructions from God makes perfect sense and is righteously justified:
The premature death of those under the Age of Accountability, gave these children, teenagers, young adults and mentally handicapped the opportunity of Salvation by Age of Accountability principles.
Each generation remaining under the influence of adults who worshiped false gods and have the Nephilim influence would pervert the next generation of children.
There are examples when mankind hardened their own hearts against God:
| Romans 1:28 | And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, |
| 2 Thessalonians 2:11 | For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, |
There is the case of Pharaoh in the Exodus events, where God declared He would harden Pharaoh's heart. There are six incidents:
| 1 | Exodus 9:12 | But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said to Moses. |
| 2 | Exodus 10:1 | Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may perform these signs of Mine among them, |
| 3 | Exodus 10:20 | But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go. |
| 4 | Exodus 10:27 | But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he was not willing to let them go. |
| 5 | Exodus 11:10 | Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh; yet the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go out of his land. |
| 6 | Exodus 14:8 | The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he chased after the sons of Israel as the sons of Israel were going out boldly. |
There are other incidents in the scriptures, where God controls events for His Purposes:
| Ezekiel 38:4 | Concerning Gog/Magog in the future:
"I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords;" |
What is Salvation? Is it possible to lose Salvation? We have eternal life. Evolution is not real. When a Christian suffers is there benefits from it. Rewards in heaven. Do we Tithe? What does the 3rd Commandment tell us? What is Grace and Mercy? Is there an Age of Accountability? Is there a place of unending punishment and exile form God?