One of the first studies I did was looking at all God the Father said in the Old Testament to put without in an unclean place. I had questions just like others on forums that say God is cruel. I don’t know why I studied this collection in the unclean place without the gate. I’ve read on forums people ask why this one and not that one was put without. Like why a woman raped but not her rapist. It’s been a long time since I read all those put without in an unclean place. I remember it was a place where the spoils of war; children and women were taken. It sounds offensive. If I had been alive at the time of lepers being put without I would have no doubt accused God of being hateful, and a contradiction to Jesus Christ who touched the lepers. Yet, what I see is Jesus Christ going without the gate to suffer for a people, to cleanse a people in His own blood, to prepare a people who are sick and in need of a physician. And then to read Paul saying, let us go without the gate to meet Him, let us go without the gate to bear His reproach. It reconciled why Jesus Christ touched the lepers. Why He heard the woman who had a blood issue and no man could heal her of her blood issue. What I called hateful in the Old Testament, now I saw it is possible God was preparing a people without the gate, while people on forums say He is hateful to put those things without in an unclean place, i want to suggest “is God hateful, or foreseeing the Son would go without the gate (to bear their reproach)to suffer without the gate”? God the Father had patience and long-suffering for the time of his visitation for those outcast and downtrodden?
Thank you for sharing your journey Matthew? You have a lot to contribute! You have been through so much by what I’ve gathered by your post. It’s beautiful that you don’t hate God without a cause.
Hello VIJ,
The Father did so much good to the obstinate people who would retort back to faithlessness. What’s even more amazing, he worked with people that was around them. It’s so cool. I don’t understand though some of the things you say like “going without the gate?”
The Father gave mana to his people, Moses told them don’t horde it, some of them did so and the mana turned to maggots. What’s the purpose of this? That greed eats away the nature of staying faithful that Yahavah, who can will indeed keep you sustained spiritually if you remain faithful?
I haven’t read some of the Old Testament in awhile, but Samuel, Hannah and Pannahna, Pan would make fun of Hannah’s value because she was not child bearing, and every year they went to the temple. Pan would give Hannah hell by mocking and belittling her. She met Eli, and I think at some point prayed that Yahavah would give her a son. She was blessed, and it didn’t seem like she retorted against Pan, she simply was tortured by her actions and would cry to no avail until calling out one day to the LORD and she gave her son Samuel to Eli.
Eli had bad sons, God spoke to Samuel and told him that Eli’s family line would be killed. Samuel told Eli about this and said “if God so wills it to be let it be.”
There are amazing things founded within these pages, not only how God handled things back then, but how we can learn by these actions how to handle things. Now I never had children, but my mother dealt with me the best she could. And if the Law got involved it was my own butt and responsibility to handle those things on my own. Eli had bad children; because of his laziness I think of having not perhaps given them the proper information they needed to have in their life; that at that time would have been the blessing and curses concerning those people (Israel) at the time I suppose.
What can we learn from that? Teaching children to obey the commandments given to the Israelites? I think that is a no. But feeding proper information to children at the proper times can help shape them to not make bad choices, and also if they come across and around people that do, not to judge them but have compassion and mercy and most certainly phone the law if it needs to be done in order for help to be there to help.
Tremendous amounts of information in the Old Testament can help us realize our own fleshly nature, and like Hannah going to Yahavah about things is where peace and perhaps we can leave our anger worries and anxiety’s and so forth there on the altar for him to handle.
Even if we are sick or some problem we have is not fixed, he is a good God, who does love and who does work individually with people to help them live by the spiritual means and those blessing and curses while they don’t mean much for us today; they can perhaps teach us lessons and the hardest lesson to learn is that is only by the spirit of Christ we do anything good, and he deserves all the credit for getting us to the Father and, also helping to hold our tongue and flesh back when it desires its own way ; but also can give us the strengths to even tell others when they are in the wrong even if they may mock us for it.
The relationship had with God is so personal, it similar to a locker. You store things in there but take out what you need at random times. You’re able to give God all those things and in that locker it wouldn’t be a locked locker, it would be a changed heart by the spirit within bringing forth freedom rather than bondage.
Thank you for taking time to read, I find your post worth while and thoughtful, though I didn’t understand some things.
