SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/25/2016
11:06 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Their
Ruthless Bloodshed
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Nahum 3:1-3
Message of
the verses: “1 Woe to the bloody city, completely full of
lies and pillage; Her prey never departs. 2 The noise of the whip, The noise of
the rattling of the wheel, Galloping horses And bounding chariots! 3 Horsemen
charging, Swords flashing, spears gleaming, Many slain, a mass of corpses, And
countless dead bodies- They stumble over the dead bodies!”
Woe “A declaration of ‘woe’ on man is frequently
found in scripture. It is especially pronounced on those who have had privileges and have
not answered to them. In the Prophets there are many woes against Israel
and Judah, and also against the nations which had to do with Israel. The Lord
when on earth pronounced woes upon those who should have been the leaders of
His people. The Revelation shows that God’s ‘woes’ will fall with mighty power on
those denounced.” This quote comes from
my Online Bible Program.
I want to look at several verses that speak of what
the Lord has to say about shedding innocent blood, which is what the Assyrians
were good at as they would actually line up dead bodies like cord wood to show
other nations what could happen to them if they attack Assyria. Let’s first
look at Deuteronomy 19:11-12 “11 “But if there is a man who hates his neighbor
and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes him so that he
dies, and he flees to one of these cities, 12 then the elders of his city shall
send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of
blood, that he may die.” Moses is
talking about the cities of refuge in the first part of verse eleven. Next we look at 2 Kings 21:16 “Moreover,
Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one
end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in
the sight of the LORD.” 2 Kings 24:4 “and
also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with
innocent blood; and the LORD would not forgive.” Psalm 106:38 “And shed innocent blood, The
blood of their sons and their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of
Canaan; And the land was polluted with the blood.” Proverbs 6:16-17 “16 There are six things
which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 17 Haughty
eyes, a lying tongue, And
hands that shed innocent blood.”
Isaiah 59:7 “Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent
blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are
in their highways.”
Dr. Wiersbe concludes “Depraved dictators who
authorize the heartless slaying o innocent victims will someday answer to God
for their crimes against Him and humanity.”
We have men in our world today who fit right into this category and have
had them for a long time. Think of
Hitler, Stalin and now we have to think of ISIS who are doing these types of
things.
1/25/2016 11:26 PM
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