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1 | Was it acceptable to the Lord? | Judges | 4everLearning | 52254 | ||
what exactly are you asking? are you asking about the necessity of jesus' death as a sacrafice? i'm not understanding your questions..... | ||||||
2 | Jephthah and the burnt offering? | Judges | Cyclist | 52617 | ||
Greetings Froum Members! I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever! I will sing in my heart with gladness to my God who saved me! I will sing and praise my God in my heart all day long, and, continually give thanks to Him for His Son Jesus Christ, who thought not of Himself but gave Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of the world! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever! I hope all is well with everyone! I thank God for this Forum! I have really grown since I became involved! Bless each one of you! This is a repost of a question that I asked before. I am having difficulty with Judges 11. In order to save space I will not post the entire chapter. It is the story of Jephthah who appears to have offered his daughter as a burnt offering to the Lord. I have a study bible at home. The commentary states that Jephthah could not have offered his daughter as a burnt offering because God forbids it in the book of Numbers. The commentary goes on to say that the daughter was not allowed to marry and that was the sacrifice, however, verse 39 (At the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her according to the vow which he had made;...). This, to me, says that he did indeed offer up his daughter as he vowed. Any comments on this? I need to get back to someone who is growing and I'm having trouble explaining this. If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it? Always your brother in Christ, Cyclist I will bless the Lord at all times! His praise shall continually be in my mouth! |
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3 | Jephthah and the burnt offering? | Judges | Ray | 52633 | ||
Hi Cyclist, The verse you may be looking for is Deuteronomy 12:31, "You shall not behave thus toward the Lord your God, for every abominable act which the Lord hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods." As far as it being against the Lord's wishes and commands I believe that it is important to note the number of times that Judges says that everyone did what was right in his own eyes, for example Judges 21:25, "In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes." The story is really one of the importance of fulfilling our vows before the Lord rather than a sacrifice being offered. For example, a "foxhole" conversion where a person promises to God to do such and such if only he could survive this war, would be taken very seriously by God I would think no matter what was offered. Many of these promises are not kept of course, and I would think that God is saddened that He is not sought in the good times as well as the difficult. We should keep the vows that we make to the Lord. Judges 11:30, "And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, "If Thou wilt indeed give...then it shall be...it shall be the Lord's, and I will..." Numbers 30:2, "If a man makes a vow to the Lord, or takes an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth." Deuteronomy 23:20b, "When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, and the Lord your God will surely require it of you. However, if you refrain from vowing, it would not be sin in you. You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God, what you have promised.[with your mouth]." You ask if this offering is acceptable to the Lord. I would have to say that it is the necessary outcome because of the oath made. The daughter's willingness to die is commendable, but the "rashness" of the oath is not. The answer could be found in Matthew 5:33. Here Jesus says, "Again, you have heard that the ancients were told, YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FALSE VOWS, BUT SHALL FULFILL YOUR VOWS TO THE LORD." But I say to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING." Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. But let your statement be, 'Yes, yes,' or 'No, no'; and anything beyond these is of evil." Although vows or at least commitment and sincerity of purpose are important to the Lord, in the final analysis we are helpless in fulfilling them by ourselves. We will need the Scriptures to remind us and guide us in our commitments and we may need other people to be faithful also so that we can all be of one spirit in the endeavors. Jephthah needed his daughter to be willing to die for his oath to be fulfilled. It is for that reason that the account is one of a lament for the daughter and a remembrance of her shortened (and less than complete as regarding her virginity) life. It is not only a story of a man's keeping his word, it is a memorial to a young virgin's willingness to do the will of God as she saw it. The death of Jephthan's daughter can be viewed as a suicidal death in much the way that Samson's was in the temple where he destroyed so many Philistine's through his death. They were willing to die for their causes for they saw it as being in the will of God. Although Samson's sin and Jephthah's seeming foolishness led to the circumstances, God used them for a good outcome. The Lord, the Judge, judged between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon. See Judges 11:27. It evidently was in the plan of God that it would require the willingness of Jephthah's daughter to accomplish it after the fact so to speak. But what I am happy about is that the Lord is our Head in the church just as Jephthah was the head and chief in the book of Judges. We have a King now that we serve, and we do His will. And that will, right now, is not to make rash oaths that we have no power to fulfill. From the heart, Ray |
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4 | Jephthah and the burnt offering? | Judges | Cyclist | 52638 | ||
Ray, Thank you so much! This definately is what I needed to help explain this event in the Old Testament. Thanks again, Cyclist I will bless the Lord at all times! His praise shall continually be in my mouth! |
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