ra16 it was, the Bible claims, only after Jewish ~
ARMIES
HAD "UTTERLY
DESTROYED ALL THAT
BREATHED" IN THE CITIES
OF LIVNEH AND LACHISCH AND
EGLON & CHEVRON & DEBIR, IN THE HILL COUNTRY
AND IN THE NEGEV, IN THR LOWLANDS AND IN THE SLOPES ~
ONLY AFTER EVERY SINGLE PREVIOUS INHABITANT OF THIS LAND WAS ERADICATED,
"as the Lord God of Israel had commanded" (see Yoshua 10:28-42) ~ that the jews were allowed to settle here?!
And yet, a thousand years later, this same tribe that had shed so much blood to cleanse the Promised Lands of every foreign element so as to rule in the name of its God now found itself laboring under the boot of an imperial pagan power, forced to share the holy city with Gauls, Spaniards, Romans, Greeks, & Syrians ~ all of the foreigners, all of them heathens ~ obligated by law to make sacrifices in God's OWN TEMPLE on behalf of the Roman idolater who lived more than a thousand kilometers away!? How would the heroes of old respond to such humiliation and degradation? What would Joshua or AHARON or Phineas or Samuel DO TO THE UN-BELIEVERS who had defiled the lands set aside by God for his chosen people? They would drown the Land in blood! They would smash the heads of the heathens & Gentiles, burn their idols to the ground, slaughter their wives AND CHILDREN!? They would slay the idolaters & bathe their feet in the blood of their enemies, just as the Lord commanded! They would call upon THE GOD OF ISRAEL to burst forth from the heavens in his war chariot,
to trample upon the sinful nations and make
the mountains writhe at his fury!
As for the high priest ~ that wretch who betrayed God's chosen people to Rome
for some coin and the right to prance about in his spangled banner
garments? His very existence was an insult to God!
It was a blight upon the Entire Land!
IT HAD TO BE WIPED AWAY.
Asih, man, 80 jaar
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