Posted on 06/04/2023 5:22:52 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Proverbs 16:5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
The Judges 19–21 story continues with the eleven tribes of Israel (minus the Tribe of Benjamin) convening a meeting together at Mizpeh (near Jerusalem) to discuss the account of Gibeah and determine what to do. The Levite was brought to recapitulate what transpired in Gibeah in the presence of Israel’s leaders. After hearing the account the eleven tribes gathered together as one man to bring justice to those responsible for this heinous crime…
Judges 20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. 12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you? 13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel: 14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
Why didn’t the Tribe of Benjamin do what was right and hand over the malefactors? Wouldn’t it be preferable to destruction in civil war? Of course! The Biblical answer is that they couldn’t. God had given the Tribe of Benjamin over to a reprobate mind (Rom 1:28) in judgment, so that even if they would, they couldn’t!
Like America today, the Tribe of Benjamin believed they were on the “right side of history” in elevating Sodomy and casting off the cords of their Biblical heritage. Sodomy was something, perhaps the only thing, that was worth dying for. No more repressive shackles of God’s law. No conviction and condemnation for doing what they wanted to do. They were finally free to “do as thou wilt”. The Tribe of Benjamin was about to be destroyed. Paul said this delusion would be world wide just prior to God’s judgment on the earth during the coming Tribulation…
2 Thess 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Why does Target, inc. open up children’s restrooms to transgender men and sell transgender and Satanic clothes to kids? They have to! Backlash from Christians is only evidence that Target is doing the right thing. Bud Light’s massive sales drop is proof positive that work must continue to remove the last vestiges of Biblical morality in America. The US Military recruitment dearth in our new Institutionalized Sodomite Military only means work remains to purge America of its Christian conscience. Disney must put transgender mustached men in dresses to greet little girls. The public school system must have transgender and homosexual indoctrination of kids K-12. Parents be damned! America’s Federal and States Governments must fund and enforce June Pride month. Six Flags must have Drag Queen shows at all parks. Why? Because America has been handed over to reprobation by God. The USA, like the tribe of Benjamin (and Sodom and Gamorrah), is about to be experience the wrath of God…
Judges 20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. 16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war. 18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God*, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first. 19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. 20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
Israel did the right thing by asking counsel from God. Christians in America need to pray without ceasing in these perilous times. We need to cast all our cares on God and pray for wisdom. In judgment God remembers mercy (Habakkuk 3:2). We need to pray that we are counted worthy to escape the judgments coming to our country (Luke 21:36). We need to look for ways to hide ourselves (Proverbs 22:3) like the Religious Exemptions for vaccines. God will give us wisdom and he will order our steps. Notice also God’s fitting placement of Judah, the concubine’s home tribe, to lead the attack on Tribe of Benjamin.
On a last note, Jacob, the patriarch of the 12 tribes of Israel, prophesied over his twelve sons before he died (Genesis 49). His amazing prophecy revealed the future of the tribes and the coming Messiah. Jacob prophesied that the tribe of Benjamin would be like a ravenous wolf in the morning (early in its existence) and devour the prey. Jesus used the same wolf anthropomorphism to describe those who reject God’s Word and come to steal, kill, and destroy God’s people (John 10). He said religious leaders who will not protect God’s people from wolves are hirelings (only in it for the money.) Isn’t this true of 2023 America? Institutionalized Sodomy and fornication are destroying the church like a ravenous wolf and most Christian Pastors today won’t stand against it, or even preach a sermon on it!? Many go so far as to proudly display rainbow flags in Churches…as long as the money keeps rolling in and their pensions are secure…
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Read the Book of Jeremiah. There you will find even more direct parallels between Israel/Judah of yesteryear and America of today.
Excellent recommendation.
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