In Gideon (Judges 6:1-40) Why was Gidian chosen to be the judge and was he faithful to God?
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hi,\n God chooses ppl who are obedient to what He asks of them... Therefore i would say that would have a large bearing on why Gideon was chosen. i haven't studied the full story properly but from what i have seen in a read through i would say he was as faithful to God as he could be. and that is all that God asks of each of us....\nGod bless u\nShaz\nx x x x x
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God chose Abraham because of his obedience.  He was even willing to sacrifice his only son in order to obey God, even though he had waited so long to have Isaac, his son of promise.  I believe that test was a foreshadowing of God's willingness to offer His Son for us.\n\nAbraham didn't actually lead any people.  That was Moses.  Moses chose serving God and defending His people over living in a palace and being served.  Also a foreshadowing of Jesus' willingness to leave heaven and deliver us.
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I take it you don't even have a Gideon's Bible [KJV] handy... \n\nWell, there are over sixty books in it and they were authored by over four dozen people [prophets, messengers, disciples, scribes, etc.]. \n\nOkay, here are a few Books found in the Old Testament: Genesis; Exodus; Numbers; Leviticus; Deuteronomy; Joshua; Samuel; Job; Psalms; Isaiah; Daniel; etc...\n\nPeace be with you!
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Impossibility !\n\nThis could be due to some Act of God or due to some circumstantial reasons. \n\nbut if any judge give these kind of order the it would be impossible for him to continue as a judge.\n\n-k-
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[3:19] God bears witness that there is no god but He - and also do the angels and those possessed of knowledge, maintaining justice; there is no god but He, the Mighty, the Wise. \n\nThat is chapter 3:19
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I assume you refer to the 40 years they wandered through the desert prior to entering the promised land?\n\nTwo, as far as I can recall:  the true God and the "god" they asked Aaron to make for them in the form of a golden calf.\n\nFYI:  they weren't properly called "Israelites" at that time, but you're forgiven.
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Read in the Bible Genesis chapters 15-17. God promised Abraham that his decendents would be more numerous than the stars in the sky, yet his wife Sarah could not have children. When God told Abraham and Sarah that they would have a child, they laughed and didn't believe God, because they were past child bearing years. Sarah took matters into her own hands and gave her servant, Hagar, to Abraham to have a child by to 'fulfill' the prophecy. Hagar became pregnant and the child, Ishmael, is the one from whom the palestinians/arabs are descendent. Later, just as God said, Sarah became pregnant and bore Isaac. If you read Genesis 16:11-12 it tells how the angel spoke to Hagar when she was pregnant, about Ishmael. Is says "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your misery. He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers". Today that hostility is still there between the jewish and palestinian brothers. The hostility against Israel is there because Israel is God's chosen people and many people want that idea and that people destroyed. Even though Israel has rejected her Messiah, they are still those who were chosen by God and any nation that comes against Israel will suffer greatly for it. The land of Israel was given to them by God after they escaped Egypt, and they will fight to the death to keep the land that God has given to them, but the Palestinians believe that the land is theirs by right. This is the reason for most of the fighting today.
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God prefers people to keep his commandments.
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According to the Torah and its commentaries, Abraham, through his own means, came to recognize that there is only one true God.  Once he came to that conclusion, God revealed himself to Abraham thru prophecy and thru the medium of angels.
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1st Samuel 15:2  "Thus says the LORD of Host, "I will punish Amalek for what He did to Israel, how He set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt. Samuel 15:3...\n\nSaul didn't obey God on this one.. The LORD said to Samuel, "I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not carried out My commands." \n\nBehold to obey is better than sacrifice. Rebellion is as the sin of divination.  This is when the LORD rejected Him as king over Israel.  Read the whole chapter.\n\nTo me, I don't understand God about the animals, but God knew it was necessary.  I have a hunch It had to do with bestiality & the whole area had been corrupt with the idolatry.  Also, innocent animals, people die all the time because of the sins of others.  Man's sin can lead to natural disasters.   Environmental sins cause polution.
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He sees people as being subject to the decrees of God. As God wills, events happen. God declared through his prophets what would happen in Daniel's time and as Daniel sees the time foretold for the release of his people from captivity approaching, he is given visions of what will happen in the future. He doesn't understand that these visions are of the far distant future and fears that they are indicating that his people will not be released and return to their homeland at the appointed time because of their sins. So he fasts, prays and struggles with God. He stays faithful to God through various trials and at the end is reassured.
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First off, Yahweh God has always had one religion.  The same basic Torah (Law) held true through the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Messianic dispensations.  What differed is the covenants.  The Mosaic dispensation was an earthly covenant, with promise of long life in the land of Caanan for the physical descendents of Jacob (Israel), because of the promise made to Abraham.  If the Israelites kept Yahweh God's Law, God would protect them in the land of promise.  But the Mosaic covenant had fault, it could not truly remove sin.  But God knew that.  He wanted to show mankind that man would always fall short of His Torah, and only a perfect sacrifice could remove the penalty of sin, that is death.  Hence the death of Messiah.  The same basic Torah holds true under the Messianic dispensation.  The difference is that there is a better priesthood, the Melchizedek priesthood under Messiah, than the Aaronic priesthood of the Mosaic age.  Second, there is a better sacrifice, the sacrifice of Messiah as opposed to the blood of bulls and goats.  Third, there is a better temple...the spiritual temple of the Called-out Assembly (the church), indwelt by Ruach haKadosh (the Holy Spirit), as opposed to a physical temple built by the hands of man.  Fourth, there are better promises: eternal life in a resurrected body made like unto Messiah's in the New Heaven and New Earth, for all mankind who come to Yahewh and call upon His Name, as opposed to physical land promises in Caanan, to the physical descendents of Abraham.\n\nJudaism as it is known today is not the religion of Yahweh under the Mosaic covenant.  It is loosely based upon that religion, but it has required many man-made traditions, and has totally abandoned the Aaronic priesthood with its attendent sacrifices since the destruction of Herod's Temple in Jerusalem by the Roman Army in A.D. 70.  Denominational "Christainity" is also not the religion of Yahweh God, but also only loosely based upon the New Testament.  It too is rife with man-made traditions, and its creeds and names are at variance with New Covenant teachings.  Islam's only claim to fame is that the Arabs are the descendents of Ishmael, Abraham's eldest son, and it is even more loosely based upon the writings of the Old and New Covenants than Judaism and denominational "Christianity".  Nowhere did Yahweh God authorize or foretell that there would be a covenant after the Messianic covenant.  I hope this helps alot.
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God chose us to be a holy people (separate, apart).  His people would not do certain things other peoples do.  \nHis people would not worship any other God.\nHis people could continue to make sacrifices like other peoples, but NEVER a human sacrifice.\nHis people would not murder.\nHis people would not judge without written laws that apply to all -- including the leaders -- and appointed judges to determine guilt.\n\nand so it goes on and on for 613 laws.\n\nIn other words His people were, and still are, the dissenting voice when the majority has gone awry.  Where was the dissenting voice during the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Holocaust?  \n\nWhy would anyone want to be God's holy (separate/apart) people?
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Well, I see it like this: God's will was already established both the good and the bad. But we are floating around with a choice to become either Judas Iscariot or Peter. Both were choosen to be Apostles, both sinned against God, however, only one of them chose to repent with godly sorrow and not just because he got caught like Judas did. People always say, was Judas predestined to go to hell? No, I don't think so, I believe God's will is predestined not the people that will choose themselves what part they want to play. So, predestination for those who don't want to receive Jesus because they think it will just fall on them are wrong. Proof of what I just said can be found in Deut 28, where he set before us both blessings and cursings, see the plan is set, but what part of the plan you'll be in is entirely up to you,thus, your freedom to choose! God bless you girl!
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Writing "G_d" is a practice based on the 3rd commandment ("You shall not take the name of YHWH [probably to be pronounced 'Yahweh,' traditionally ' translated as 'the LORD'] your God in vain.") But why and how did this PARTICULAR way of trying to keep the commandment come about?\n\n(In its original context the command likely had, first of all, to not dishonoring God by such behavior as lightly taking OATHS in his name and not keeping them, by extension to speaking or acting "in his name," whether claiming to speak for him, as his representative, or by claiming to follow him, but living in a way that brings dishonor to\nhim.)\n\nBut one significant expression of attempting to guard and honor the sanctity of the divine name (sometimes called the "tetragrammaton" after its four letters: Y-H-W-H) that we find many expressions of after the Babylonian Exile (6th century BC) is in special treatment of the spoken and written name(s) of God, beginning with "YHWH", and at times extending to other names and titles.\n\nWe see it in how the name was written in the scrolls of the Hebrew Bible, as well as in their early Greek translations. After the Babylonian Exile the Jews adopted the Aramaic letter forms in place of their own earlier forms. But among the Dead Sea Scrolls we find Scriptures written in the Aramaic letters, but with the divine name (which in English may be rendered YHWH) written in the older "paleo-Hebrew" script. Many early Greek translations (some as late as the 4th century AD) have the divine name written either in the Hebrew letters, or using Greek letters that LOOK like the Hebrew word. (If read as Greek one would say "Pipi", but there is no evidence such a pronunciation was ever intended.)\n\nAnother way of honoring the name YHWH that grew up at the same time was to avoid SAYING the name by substituting another Hebrew word (for Greek speakers it might be the Greek equivalent). For example, we find references to "the Name". This was at times extended to other divine names. So, for instance, in place of "God" one might say "heaven". We find some reflections of this in the NT, esp. in the gospel of Matthew, who (writing chiefly to JEWISH Christians) ordinarily speaks of the "kingdom of heaven" where other gospels use "kingdom of God".\n\nThe most important substitute was that of the word for "Lord" in place of the name YHWH. The Hebrew word was "ADONAI", Greek speakers used their equivalent, "KYRIOS". In fact, the NT throughout uses "Lord" (kyrios) when quoting OT passages that use the divine name YHWH. (This is important in connection with the claim of Christians that Jesus is divine -- calling him "Lord" was not just honoring him as "Master" but applying the divine name to him.) This practice has continued to be followed in most Scripture translations from the Hebrew, including the use of "the LORD" in most English translations. (Usually small caps are used to indicate that the original used "YHWH" not "Adonay".)\n\nEvidence for the Jewish practice is found in the customs of the Masoretes -- Hebrew scribes who carefully preserved the Hebrew text of Scripture, and added a system of markings, including accents and vowel-markings, to preserve the traditional understanding of the text. In the Masoretic manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible the name YHWH is marked with an unusual set of vowels, which if we tried to pronounce them would yield "Yehowah' [in later English, Jehovah"]. But that is not what they intended. Rather they marked the word with the vowels from "Adonay" to indicate that THIS was the word to be spoken when you came to the divine name.\n\nThe form "G_d" imitates this scribal practice of leaving out the original vowel sounds (to indicate what one is NOT s
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That is a fantastic question... Moses gave us the law. The law was giveing to man that he might find out that he could not live up to it. now God is righteous so he could not look upon sin. So at the time of Moses God allowed sacrificeces to be made thes sacrifices were a temporary solution and they reflected Gods plan to save mankind... as often a lamb was used.Now the way for a permanant salvation could only come from God... understand that the angels had turned on God the angels were creation so like man the angels were falable all things crated by God were falable while they may have at one time been perfect they could corrupt as did Lucifer..,. God ned someone who was not creation to be the sacrifice for man.So God came to earth in the form of man This man was Jesus the son of God... he was a part of our father in heaven he was not creation... he was God. Jesus came from heavin to be tempted by Satan to overcome sin. and then to die for all of our sins one time and forever.Jesus was the Lamb of God and the only one who could save us from sin.
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He was the father of the Isrealite nation. His son Isaac was born when both he and his wife were way too old to have kids, and she was physically unable to have children. Yet he always had faith that God would keep His promise.