Interesting official spoils of war.

Feminists will have a lot to say about this one. Animal activist should also raise a head for all the spoils of war as so much killing happens in the Bible for burnt offerings.

God instructed in Numbers 31v18: ‘But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.’ According to verse 32: ‘and the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was 675000 and 5000 sheep, v33: And 12060 beeves, v34: And 1060 asses, v35: And 32000 persons in all, of woman that had not known man by lying with him.’

In Deut 21v10, God says, ‘When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, v11: And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

v12: Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; v13: And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.’

It goes on to say that,  ‘And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.’ Should it be that easy?

The spoils of war are also mentioned in Judges 21 v12: ‘And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

v13: And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. v14: And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.’

To solve the crises of insufficient women to perpetuate the Benjamin tribe, Judges 21 v21 says, ‘And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.’

And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. Wow.

Who God bless, no one curse.

Amongst the plagues of Egypt, the Red Sea opening, water from a rock, manna from heaven, the quails, the earth swallowing the wicked men of Korah by the earth in the desert, Sodom and Gomorrah, the birth of Isaac, the sacrifice of Abraham in Moria, the brass serpent that people looked up to and survived the snake bites, there is this one;

Numbers 22 v28: ‘And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?’ Balak solicited Balaam for his help in cursing Israel and joining forces to fight against them. God put an angel in the way of the donkey until it spoke these words.

Numbers 22 v29: ‘And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee. v30: And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day?  was I ever wont to do so unto thee?  And he said, No.’

Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.

Do not go against the word of God. Who God bless, no one curse. Talk to your problems and let them know they have to go away. They may be stubborn, but they must leave your life.

Marriages, Relationships or affairs?

Abraham was given a maid, Hagar, by his wife Sarah, to fulfill the prophesy of the ‘son of the promise’. Things turned sour after Sarah bore a son. Sarah was Abraham’s sister but from a different mother. The Bible stresses how very beautiful she was. Rebecca and Rachel are said to have been incredible beautiful. So when God blesses a man, he also gives a beautiful woman.

Jacob worked 7 years to marry Rachel but was given Leah. After working to marry Rachel, it turned out Rachel was barren, that she gave her maid, Bilhah to Jacob. Leah gave her maid, Zilphah to Jacob as well. Zilphah went on to bed Reubern, Jacob and Leah’s son.

Out of a betting scandal, aged Leah got to sleep with Jacob and bore Issachar and later Zebulun and a daughter called Dinah. (Rachel would finally mother Joseph and Benjamin). Dinah, Jacob’s only daughter, lost her virginity to Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country. Simeon and Levi killed all male and took all their possessions.

Later, Judah’s son Er, married Tamar who became widowed because God killed him for his wickedness. His brother Onan was given her to perpetuate his seed. Onan went in and spilled his sperm to the ground and God killed him for doing casual sex. Then Tamar tricked Judah, pretending to be a whore, getting his jewellery and sleeping with him. Judah had twins from his dead son’s wife, Phareh and Zarah. This Zarah brought his hand from the womb first, was marked, but then withdrew into the birth canal and Phareh was born first.

Joseph refused free sex from the amorous Potipher’s wife’s advances. Moses had a Midianite wife. Later, at around his 80’s, he married an Ethiopian woman, but his brother and sister, Aaron and Miriam started to murmur and God reproached them, punishing Miriam with 7 days leprosy.

God had killed over 24 000 people for fornication and adultery with the Moabites. One  man found himself a Midianite whore, crept into the tent with her. A Levite, Phinehas saw this and ran into the tent and drove a spear through them, killing them instantly while they had sex. God was pleased with his revolt and stopped killing people.

God refuses rewards for sex to be brought to his house, as set in Deut 23v18: ‘Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow.’

Samson married Delilah and she betrayed him to the Philistines who cut his hair. Rahab the harlot housed Joshua’s spies and she and her family were saved. She is the ancestor of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Deut 24v5: ‘When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.’ My wife may sue some companies for the loss of ‘cheer’.

Do we consider Eve’s betrayal as a sexual affair with the serpent? My Bible does not hint that way.

Joys of a Muslim woman, True?

(This is said to have been written by a woman born in Egypt as a Muslim, Nonie Darwish) 

In the Muslim faith, a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child, consummating the marriage by 9.  The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy.
 
Even though a woman is abused, she cannot obtain a divorce. To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses. Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry.
The family has the right to execute her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and the man does not have to say why he has beaten her. The husband is permitted to have 4 wives and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion. The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.
 
In the Western World (America) Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife cannot obtain a divorce and he can have full and control of her. It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law. By passing this on, enlightened American women may avoid becoming a slave under Shariah Law.
 
Ripping the West in Two. Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping Western law and liberty in two.
 
She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.
 
Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old. Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israe .  He was a high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza.
 
When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad. His posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim society.
 
But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned her own Muslim culture and upbringing. She converted to Christianity after hearing a Christian preacher on television.
 
In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping sharia law - what it is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries. For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed. Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each individual. Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.

Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.

While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule, Sharia teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century, Sharia encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others.

While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a personal understanding of and relationship with God, Sharia advocates executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted as criticism.

It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that
those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should b executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformationist common and even assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.

While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.

In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the President by themselves! Rest assured they will do so... You can look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA ... Dearborn Mich. is one... and there are others...I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!

It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity to accept Muslims as peaceful... Some may be but they have an army that is willing to shed blood in the name of Islam... the peaceful support the warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their religion. While America is getting rid of Christianity from all public sites and erasing God from the lives of children the Muslims are planning a great jihad on America.