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Song of Moses and Song of the LambDavid’s lesson in full salvation (2Samuel 22)Is God a petty reactionary? (2Samuel 22:26–27)
Being “Torah observant” is not supposed to be a “holier than thou” pursuit of perfection. The Torah section הַאֲזִינוּ Ha’azinu (“listen,” Deuteronomy 32) is Moshe’s warning for Israel to be aware of the high calling of the nation to save the world and not to bec9me in snared by its distractions.
We see a lot of the foibles of God’s people recorded in the Bible. The reason they are recorded is so we can learn when we are heading in a wrong direction. When you head down a bad path and end up in a place that you don’t want to be, learn from those things and move on.
That is why sometimes bad things happen to good people. Even “good people” sometimes go off track and need some fine tuning and adjustments.
Righteous people accept correction and are grateful for it, while unrighteous people ignore correction and blame others, including God for the problems they caused to themselves (Prov. 9:8; 14:16).
The Jewish people call those gentiles who helped rescue Jews in Europe from the Holocaust the “Righteous Among the Nations.”
Many of these holocaust rescuers have been asked how they were able to stand up for what was right as most of their neighbors succumb to evil. The answer a number of them have given is simple. They just didn’t go off the edge like everybody else did. That was the only thing. They went up to the edge, saw where the edge was, and they didn’t go over it with everybody else and all of society. And that was enough. They saw Europe going in a bad direction and simply refused to follow.
We see what’s happening right now with this coronavirus pandemic, what it’s doing to other countries. Not only is it creating a divide, but it is also creating people who are turning in their neighbors, turning in their family members. And they are smug and self-righteous about it.
Certain states in Australia are reverting back to their penal colony roots right before our eyes, with parole-like daily check-ins to make citizens are adhering to the lockdown orders.
We have not seen anything like this in Western countries since the times of the ghettos, and it’s horrifying. We can see how quickly people can switch from being kind, good “civilized” people into being people who will turn other people into the authorities, chase other people down, drag them into prison, do horrifically bad things for the sake “of the greater good.”
Remember that Germany right before World War II was one of the most educated, sophisticated cultures in the world. Their schools of higher learning — economics, philosophy, science — had a lot of brain power. Yet when you read some of the writings that came out from that time, you read all kinds of incredibly educated justifications for the most barbaric things you’ve ever seen in your life.
When the apostle Paul was before Festus, giving a defense of his faith in Yeshua, Festus told Paul, “Your great learning has driven you mad” (Acts 26:24).
That could be said of a lot of people, whether you’re looking at pre-World War 2 Germany or today. It’s a serious warning to be sure that your great learning doesn’t ...
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By Hallel FellowshipIn this study
Song of Moses and Song of the LambDavid’s lesson in full salvation (2Samuel 22)Is God a petty reactionary? (2Samuel 22:26–27)
Being “Torah observant” is not supposed to be a “holier than thou” pursuit of perfection. The Torah section הַאֲזִינוּ Ha’azinu (“listen,” Deuteronomy 32) is Moshe’s warning for Israel to be aware of the high calling of the nation to save the world and not to bec9me in snared by its distractions.
We see a lot of the foibles of God’s people recorded in the Bible. The reason they are recorded is so we can learn when we are heading in a wrong direction. When you head down a bad path and end up in a place that you don’t want to be, learn from those things and move on.
That is why sometimes bad things happen to good people. Even “good people” sometimes go off track and need some fine tuning and adjustments.
Righteous people accept correction and are grateful for it, while unrighteous people ignore correction and blame others, including God for the problems they caused to themselves (Prov. 9:8; 14:16).
The Jewish people call those gentiles who helped rescue Jews in Europe from the Holocaust the “Righteous Among the Nations.”
Many of these holocaust rescuers have been asked how they were able to stand up for what was right as most of their neighbors succumb to evil. The answer a number of them have given is simple. They just didn’t go off the edge like everybody else did. That was the only thing. They went up to the edge, saw where the edge was, and they didn’t go over it with everybody else and all of society. And that was enough. They saw Europe going in a bad direction and simply refused to follow.
We see what’s happening right now with this coronavirus pandemic, what it’s doing to other countries. Not only is it creating a divide, but it is also creating people who are turning in their neighbors, turning in their family members. And they are smug and self-righteous about it.
Certain states in Australia are reverting back to their penal colony roots right before our eyes, with parole-like daily check-ins to make citizens are adhering to the lockdown orders.
We have not seen anything like this in Western countries since the times of the ghettos, and it’s horrifying. We can see how quickly people can switch from being kind, good “civilized” people into being people who will turn other people into the authorities, chase other people down, drag them into prison, do horrifically bad things for the sake “of the greater good.”
Remember that Germany right before World War II was one of the most educated, sophisticated cultures in the world. Their schools of higher learning — economics, philosophy, science — had a lot of brain power. Yet when you read some of the writings that came out from that time, you read all kinds of incredibly educated justifications for the most barbaric things you’ve ever seen in your life.
When the apostle Paul was before Festus, giving a defense of his faith in Yeshua, Festus told Paul, “Your great learning has driven you mad” (Acts 26:24).
That could be said of a lot of people, whether you’re looking at pre-World War 2 Germany or today. It’s a serious warning to be sure that your great learning doesn’t ...