Here's some Isaiah to read for reflection ....
Note : That this tribe were God's chosen people , is pure religious propaganda ...but after all --->it was they who wrote the stories in their books didn't they ? What would you expect them to write ? All human beings have this tendency to write themselves into the creation , but the Jews outdid everybody on this account , and were extremeist in this particular early religious zealousness . If you look at Islam , you can see the same tendency to ascendency in that religion as well. Seems to be in the "blood " of the tribes all over that region , to be so blessed <G>
** Maybe we could call it a little touch of the ----> " Alpha Male Syndrome " perhaps ? ;-)
All is vanity ...all is vanity . There are some appealing stories and there are some not so appealing . But the Chosen people of God idea , is pure fantasy GTC .
The Navajo Indians had as much appreciation of life , and in some cases were even more just and wise than the
ancient Jews.
regards
ISA 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
ISA 1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
ISA 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
ISA 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
ISA 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
ISA 1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
ISA 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
ISA 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
ISA 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
ISA 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
ISA 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
ISA 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
ISA 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
ISA 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
ISA 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
ISA 1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
ISA 1:23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
ISA 1:24 Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
ISA 1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and |
