The Lord leads Israel in conquering the land and judging its wicked inhabitants, and then he distributes the land among the twelve tribes. The book ends with Joshua’s pleas for Israel to remain faithful as God’s people. Judges opens with Israel’s disobedience. They refuse to wage war with unbelief and to purge idolatry from the land. The books of Samuel, named after him, tell of a time of great change within the Israelite nation.
It does not make sense that an omnipotent God would allow His people to be burned, gassed, and beat if God is to be a merciful person.
He previously thought like them, so he cannot judge. Acts 3:19 says, “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord…” Near the end of the book, when war was declared and atomic bombs were set to detonate, the people’s sins would be wiped out. This also mirrors when God sent the flood to cleanse the earth. Noah and the other chosen few
God will always love His children regardless however; God desires and deserves our whole-hearted loyalty, allegiance, trust, obedience, and devotion. Our charter is fueled by the power of the Holy Spirit empowering us so we can model the charter of Christ. The demands on the world today for people with strong
However, God encouraged him to care and love for them. This is present in our society today. When someone hurts another, we care for the one who got hurt and show no compassion for the one whose fault it was. It is hard for us to show empathy toward the “bad”guy. It really does take God to help us.
Though we cannot know such details with any certainty, it could be that theirs was a relationship already established and growing in love when God warned Hosea of what would happen, and then indicated that he should continue his pursuit of love and marry her. What is very clear is that Hosea’s feelings were not merely based on dogmatic obedience to God’s call on his life. It is important to understand that Hosea’s feelings were genuine in order to comprehend the dynamic necessary for restoration and healing to take place. If by marrying Gomer, Hosea acted in mere obedience to a directive, Gomer’s experience of Hosea’s love would have been that of obligation and duty. A relationship based on obligation or a sense of duty will not facilitate trust or confidence, because very often obligation becomes inconvenient and the obligation expendable.
As a result, he cheated on his wife, but Deborah forgave him because she has an undeniable passion for God. “My passion was recognition and success. Her passion was to know God.” (pg. 66) “Then I went home and confessed to Deborah.
One of God 's many rule is “Love your neighbor as yourself.” when you show favoritism to some of your neighbor your going again of the rule written in the scripture, you must treat everyone as equal, as God views all of us as
In the Bible, God is shown to be merciful and loving. " The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works" (Pslm. 145.9). The Lord is good to all, not cruel, and shows mercy to all his creatures. The Lord is the source of love and loves unconditionally even giving his only son so that all may have eternal life. " For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" (John 3.16).
King Josiah did what was right in the sight of the Lord. King Hezekiah grew ill, cried out to God and received 15 more years of life. One brave King who loved God strongly, was King David. King David, a mighty man of God, humbly lived his life serving God.
He loved the Lord very much that is true. However, King David was also not without sin. He fell in love with and had sex with a married woman named Bathsheba. David then had Bathsheba’s husband murdered. Yet time and time again we see that love that God had for David.
In the midst of trouble and suffering of Jerusalem, Jerimiah still found hope in God. Jeremiah said the faithful love of God never ends and his mercy is refreshed each morning. The suffering had gotten to the point that the women were so hungry that they would cook
In the book of Hosea we can see that God can forgive a covenant breaker. In this book we see that the marriage between Hosea and Gomer is a representation of God and Israel. God speaks through Hosea and tells him to marry a prostitute and have children with her so that some children will be conceived out of prostitution. In Hosea 1:2 of the NLT, we see that this is an illustration of how Israel acted like a prostitute by turning away from God and worshipping other gods. The book of Hosea shows God’s love for Israel even while they were in a backslidden state.
Beginning in Job, it is evident that poverty can indeed fall turmoil on anyone (Job 19: 7-29). The reasons for poverty cannot necessarily be faulted on the poor. Following in the Psalms, the overarching idea is that God delivers all and that we should love each other in the midst (Ps. 35:1-; 82). In this, it is expected that all individuals, especially the most power who can take advantage of vulnerabilities, to practice love and justice.
When the time was right, God chose another man and separated him out from the pagan nations. Abraham was considered righteous as he believed in the Lord and the promises given to him. Through Abraham’s descendants, God took to Himself a nation that would be light shining in a darkened world. Not only would laws given to the nation of Israel show God’s righteousness, additionally, He gave the Temple to instruct man regarding His holiness and how an earthly people could approach His presence. The God who dwells in unapproachable light could only be approached by one who has clean hands and a pure heart, and this lesson is taught over and over again through the illustration of the Temple and purity laws found in the Torah.
