SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/23/2015
9:11 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Judgment for
Ammon
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Amos 1:13-15
Message of the
verses: “13 Thus says the LORD,
"For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon and for four I will not
revoke its punishment, Because
they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead In order to enlarge their
borders. 14 “So I
will kindle a fire on the wall of Rabbah And it will consume her
citadels Amid war cries on the day of battle, And a storm on the day of
tempest. 15 “Their king will go into exile, He and his princes together,"
says the LORD.”
I looked up to see how many times that I could find
pregnant women being ripped open and the only other time is in Ho 13:16 “
Samaria will be held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They will
fall by the sword, Their little ones will be dashed in pieces, And their
pregnant women will be ripped open.” I
can’t imagine someone doing that, but I guess that when a person is an
unbeliever that they can do things like that.
At any rate we want to learn a little bit about Ammon. In Genesis chapter nineteen we read of Lot
and his daughters leaving Sodom and after a while they were living in a cave
and his daughters got him drunk so that they could sleep with him in order to
have children and the nations of Moab and Ammon came from these relationships
with Lot and his daughters, and they were both a thorn in the side of Israel,
however a Romans 8:28 moment comes from this as Ruth came from Moab and she was
the great grand-mother of King David and is in the blood line of Jesus Christ.
Okay I have to say something here that may be a bit
controversial, but maybe not. I have written
about what I am about to write about before, but under different
circumstances. First I want to say that it
was wrong for Lot to do what he did and for his daughters to do what they did
but after living in Sodom this type of thing probably came natural to all of
them. Next I believe that even though
this was two sinful acts the children that were produced would not be like ones
produced if this kind of thing happened today because back then the gene pool
in the human race was not as compromised as it is today. Next this leads me to say that all humans
came from Adam and Eve, and then from Noah and his family so back then before
the gene pool was so compromised brothers married sisters as this was the only
way for the human race to advance for that was all that there was at that
time. It was around the giving of the
Law that God said that brothers and sister should not marry and I believe that
this is because of the compromising of the gene pool in humans. We are all of the human race there is no
black race, white race, Indian race, or any other race but the human race. The different shades of skin that we see in
people today were all put into both Adam and Eve so that people today have different
shades of skin and once that began to happen then people with darker skin
married people of the same shade of skin would produce offspring with the same
shade of skin. I learned what little I
know about this from “Answers In Genesis,” as I have heard a number of
different sermons from people who work there and can explain this kind of thing
in a more technical way. So if you have
to fill some kind of form out and are asked what race you are just write down “human
race,” for we are all from the human race.
Ammon wanted to enlarge their land so they invaded Gilead
and Dr. Wiersbe writes “and not satisfied with attacking the men defending
their homeland, the Ammonites killed women and unborn children (see 2 Kings
8:12; 15:16). To the Ammonites, land was
more important than people, including defenseless women and innocent
children. Such brutality shocks us, but
is ‘modern warfare’ and kinder?” I don’t
think that modern warfare is any kinder, but abortion on demand is just as bad
as what the Ammonites did in their day.
The storm that Amos prophesied would happen, did in 734
BC. Dr. Wiersbe writes: Not only did Amos predict the destruction of
their land, but so did Ezekiel (25:1-7).
The chief god of Edom was Molech (Malcham, Milcom), which means ‘reigning
one, king.’ Amos 1:15 could be
translated, ‘Molech will go into exile,’ thus showing the inability of their
god to save them.”
8/23/2015 9:41 PM
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