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To: Edwarda who wrote (80355)	5/31/2000 9:27:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Phrase "the LORD of hosts" appears about 285 times in the "Old Testament in the KJV. NIV translates it "the LORD Almighty," which captures some of the greatness and glory of this phrase, but unfortunately loses the military sense of the term. The LORD of hosts is not just an expression of greatness, but of armed might, willing to punish evil and uphold righteousness. (See John E. Hartley, "saba," Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, 2:749-751, for a good discussion of the concept of the LORD of hosts, Yahweh the great Warrior.) We live in an era which has few military heroes. We idolize men of the screen and playing field, and those who have made fortunes begun in Silicon Valley garages. But military heroes? Hardly. We distrust the military, and deride it -- except in times of war when courage and bravery and the willingness to stand up against wrong is all that keeps civilization from tyranny. Then we admire those who succeed on the bloody battlefield and defeat the enemies of righteousness.: willing to punish evil and uphold righteousness. Now consider that evil and righteousness are squishy terms- EVERYONE who has ever gone in to battle thought they were on the side of righteousness- if you can't convince people of that they won't GO into battle. Both sides always think that God or Gods or some manifest Righteousness (in the case of communists and Nazis) is on their side. SO ANY book that encourages a "side" to think that God is on it, and to go out and fight for squishy terms- and here we have God as the mighty warrior- must be considered to encourage mass murder. Unless you don't think Wars have a component of mass murder.