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Joshua and Judges
  • There was no king in Israel at that time.
    Everyone did whatever they pleased (Judges 2125
    GN)

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Gentle Jesus and his violent Bible(Alden
Thompson Good News Tour 2006)
  • The punishment of Achan
  • Joshua and the sun
  • Samson
  • All the killing
  • Samuel to Saul Go and attack the Amalekites and
    completely destroy everything they have. Dont
    leave a thing kill all the men, women, children,
    and babies the cattle, sheep, camels, and
    donkeys (1 Samuel 153 GN)
  • Why would Jesus appear to support his children by
    violent methods?

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Gentle Jesus and his violent Bible
  • Was it Gods plan that they fight their way in?
  • Dont be afraid of them, for the LORD your God
    will fight for you (Deuteronomy 322 GN)
  • I will send an angel ahead of you to protect you
    as you travel and to bring you to the place which
    I have prepared (Exodus 2320 GN)
  • For my angel will go before you, and bring you in
    to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites,
    the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
    and I will cut them off. (Exodus 2323 NET
    Bible)
  • If you say in your heart, These nations are
    greater than I how can I dispossess them? You
    shall not be afraid of them, but you shall
    remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh
    and to all Egypt, the great trials which your
    eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty
    hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD
    your God brought you out so will the LORD your
    God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
    Moreover the LORD your God will send hornets
    among them, until those who are left and hide
    themselves from you are destroyed. You shall not
    be in dread of them for the LORD your God is in
    the midst of you, a great and terrible God. The
    LORD your God will clear away these nations
    before you little by little you may not make an
    end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow
    too numerous for you. But the LORD your God will
    give them over to you, and throw them into great
    confusion, until they are destroyed (Deuteronomy
    717-23, RSV).

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Gentle Jesus and his violent Bible
  • As you advanced, I threw them into panic in
    order to drive out the two Amorite kings. Your
    swords and bows had nothing to do with it
    (Joshua 2412).
  • If they would trust him, God could take care of
    them, no matter how desperate the circumstances
  • Be determined and confident, and dont be afraid
    of the Assyrian emperor or of the army he is
    leading. We have more power on our side than he
    has on his. He has human power, but we have the
    LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles
    (2 Chronicles 327,8 GN)
  • That night an angel of the LORD went to the
    Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At
    dawn the next day there they lay, all dead! (2
    Kings 1935 GN)
  • Is this any better?
  • God didnt want his people to do the killing

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Gentle Jesus and his violent Bible
  • Why must they enter a land full of an evil
    people?
  • In the fourth generation they will come back
    here, for until then the iniquity of the Amorites
    will not have reached its full extent (Genesis
    1516 New Jerusalem Bible)
  • Do not say to yourselves that he brought you in
    to possess this land because you deserved it. No,
    the LORD is going to drive these people out for
    you because they are wicked. It is not because
    you are good and do what is right that the LORD
    is letting you take their land. He will drive
    them out because they are wicked and because he
    intends to keep the promise that he made to your
    ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You can be
    sure that the LORD is not giving you this fertile
    land because you deserve it. No, you are a
    stubborn people. (Deuteronomy 94-6 GN)

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Gentle Jesus and his violent Bible
  • What do we know about the Canaanites?
  • Fertility cult worship
  • Temple prostitutes
  • Human sacrifice
  • Baal

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Gentle Jesus and his violent Bible
  • Would it have been helpful for God to remove
    every obstacle and only bless them with health
    and wealth?
  • This nation has broken the covenant that I
    commanded their ancestors to keep. Because they
    have not obeyed me, I will no longer drive out
    any of the nations that were still in the land
    when Joshua died. I will use them to find out
    whether or not theses Israelites will follow my
    ways, as their ancestors did. So the LORD allowed
    these nations to remain in the land he did not
    give Joshua victory over them, nor did he drive
    them out soon after Joshuas death (Judges
    220-23 GN)

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Gentle Jesus and his violent Bible
  • They chose to intermingle with the other nations
    and to worship their gods, resulting in
    disastrous consequences. Their history was a
    cycle of worshiping the foreign gods, being
    dominated by these foreign nations, and then
    having to fight for independence.
  • I took you out of Egypt and brought you to the
    land that I promised to your ancestors. I said,
    I will never break my covenant with you. You
    must not make any covenant with the people who
    live in this land. You must tear down their
    altars. But you have not done what I told you.
    You have done just the opposite! So I tell you
    now that I will not drive these people out as you
    advance. They will be your enemies, and you will
    be trapped by the worship of their gods (Judges
    21-3)

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Gentle Jesus and his violent Bible
  • How did God feel about the fighting?
  • David could not build the temple he has
    forbidden me to do it, because I am a soldier and
    have shed too much blood (1 Chronicles 283
    GN)
  • Come and see what the LORD has done. See what
    amazing things he has done on earth. He stops
    wars all over the world he breaks bows, destroys
    spears, and sets shields on fire. Stop
    fighting, he says, and know that I am God,
    supreme among the nations, supreme over the
    world. (Psalms 468-10 GN)

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Gentle Jesus and his violent Bible
  • Why so severe in wiping them out totally?
  • When the LORD your God places these people in
    your power and you defeat them, you must put them
    all to death. Do not make an alliance with them
    or show them any mercy. Do not marry any of them,
    and do not let your children marry any of them,
    because then they would lead your children away
    from the LORD to worship other godsDestroy every
    nation that the LORD your God places in your
    power, and do not show them any mercy. Do not
    worship their gods, for that would be fatal
    (Deuteronomy 72-4,16).

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Gentle Jesus and his violent Bible
  • King Solomon
  • He married them even though the LORD had
    commanded the Israelites not to intermarry with
    these people, because they would cause the
    Israelites to give their loyalty to other godsby
    the time he was old they had led him into the
    worship of foreign godsOn the mountain east of
    Jerusalem he built a place to worship Chemosh,
    the disgusting god of Moab, and a place to
    worship Molech, the disgusting god of Ammon (1
    Kings 112,4,7 GN).
  • Rehoboam
  • Whos mother was Naamah from Ammon (1 Kings
    1421 GN)
  • Things deteriorated
  • So he sent some messengers to consult Baalzebub,
    the god of the Philistine city of Ekron, in order
    to find out whether or not he would recover (2
    Kings 12 GN)

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Gentle Jesus and his violent Bible
  • King Manasseh
  • He built pagan altars in the Templehe built
    altars for the worship of the stars. He
    sacrificed his son as a burnt offering. He
    practiced divination and magic and consulted
    fortunetellers and mediums. He sinned greatly
    against the LORD and stirred up his anger. He
    placed the symbol of the goddess Asherah in the
    TempleManasseh led them to commit even greater
    sins than those committed by the nations whom the
    LORD had driven out of the land as his people
    advancedManasseh killed so many innocent people
    that the streets of Jerusalem were flowing with
    blood he did this in addition to leading the
    people of Judah into idolatry, causing them to
    sin against the LORD (2 Kings 214-7,9,16 GN)
  • How does God deal with a violent man like this?
  • He allowed the natural consequences to occur, and
    Manasseh was captured by the Assyrians
  • In his suffering he became humble, turned to the
    LORD his God, and begged him for help. God
    accepted Manassehs prayer and answered it by
    letting him go back to Jerusalem and rule again.
    This convinced Manasseh that the LORD was God (2
    Chronicles 3312,13).

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Gentle Jesus and his violent Bible
  • Are the people at this time in the dark or in the
    light?
  • What was their sense of justice at that time?
  • Whoever questions your authority or disobeys any
    of your orders will be put to death (Joshua 118
    GN)
  • Corporate aspect
  • What would it do to you if you killed in war on a
    frequent basis?
  • Sensitive, gentle, kind and humble?
  • Would these people respond to love your enemy,
    blessed are the meek, forgive 70 times 7
    language?
  • Would they respond to a merciful/forgiving
    treatment of Achan?
  • God stoops God risked his reputation to meet his
    people where they were
  • He helped them fight, he helped them do a great
    many things that were less than the ideal
  • Can God at least lead them to trust him?
  • Can he lead them from the darkness to the light?
  • Eye for an eye.cities of refuge..Jesus

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We are in the light.right?
  • And if one of the occupation troops forces you
    to carry his pack one mile, carry it two miles.
    (Matthew 541 GN)
  • But I tell you who hear me Love your enemies,
    do good to those who hate you, bless those who
    curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
  • If anyone hits you on one cheek, let him hit the
    other one too
  • if someone takes your coat, let him have your
    shirt as well.
  • Give to everyone who asks you for something, and
    when someone takes what is yours, do not ask for
    it back.
  • Do for others just what you want them to do for
    you.
  • Love your enemies and do good to them

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We are in the lightright?
  • Lend and expect nothing back.
  • Do not judge others.
  • do not condemn others.
  • forgive others (Luke 627-37 GN)

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Joshuas final sermon
  • Now then, Joshua continued, honor the LORD and
    serve him sincerely and faithfully. Get rid of
    the gods which your ancestors used to worship in
    Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve only the
    LORD. If you are not willing to serve him, decide
    today whom you will serve, the gods your
    ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of
    the Amorites, in whose land you are now living.
    As for my family and me, we will serve the LORD.
    The people replied, We would never leave the
    LORD to serve other gods! (Joshua 2414-16
    GN)
  • Does God ever demand forced submission?
  • I, the LORD, invite you to come and talk it
    over (Isaiah 118, CEV)

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Judges
  • The darkest time recorded
  • The LORDs servant Joshua son of Nun died at the
    age of a hundred and ten...That whole generation
    also died, and the next generation forgot the
    LORD and what he had done for Israel. (Judges
    28-10 GN)

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Judges
  • Whenever the LORD gave Israel a leader, the LORD
    would help that leader and would save the people
    from their enemies as long as that leader lived.
    The LORD would have mercy on them because they
    groaned under their suffering and oppression. But
    when the leader died, the people would return to
    the old ways and behave worse than the previous
    generation. They would serve and worship other
    gods, and stubbornly continue their own evil
    ways. Then the LORD would become furious with
    Israel and say, This nation has broken the
    covenant that I commanded their ancestors to
    keep. Because they have not obeyed me, I will no
    longer drive out any of the nations that were
    still in the land when Joshua died. I will use
    them to find out whether or not these Israelites
    will follow my ways, as their ancestors did. So
    the LORD allowed these nations to remain in the
    land he did not give Joshua victory over them,
    nor did he drive them out soon after Joshua's
    death. (Judges 218-23 GN)

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Judges
  • So then, the LORD left some nations in the land
    to test the Israelites who had not been through
    the wars in Canaan. He did this only in order to
    teach each generation of Israelites about war,
    especially those who had never been in battle
    before...They were to be a test for Israel, to
    find out whether or not the Israelites would obey
    the commands that the LORD had given their
    ancestors through Moses. And so the people of
    Israel settled down among the Canaanites, the
    Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the
    Hivites, and the Jebusites. They intermarried
    with them and worshiped their gods. (Judges
    31-6 GN)

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The judges
  • Ehud killed fat king Eglon of Moab
  • After Ehud died, the people of Israel sinned
    against the LORD again. So the LORD let them be
    conquered by Jabin, a Canaanite king who ruled in
    the city of Hazor. The commander of his army was
    Sisera (Judges 41,2 GN)
  • Deborah Sisera killed by Jael with a tent peg
    and hammer
  • Song of Deborah So may all your enemies die
    like that, O LORD, but may your friends shine
    like the rising sun! And there was peace in the
    land for forty years (Judges 531 GN)
  • Does God want all his enemies to die like Sisera?

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The judges
  • Gideon
  • Once again the people of Israel sinned against
    the LORD, so he let the people of Midian rule
    them for seven years. The Midianites were
    stronger than Israel, and the people of Israel
    his from them in caves and other safe places in
    the hills (Judges 61,2 GN)
  • Then the LORDs angel came to the village of
    Ophrah and sat under the oak tree that belonged
    to JoashHis son Gideon was threshing some wheat
    secretly in a wine press, so that the Midianites
    would not see him. The LORDs angel appeared to
    him there and said, The LORD is with you, brave
    and mighty man! Gideon said to him, If I may
    ask, sir, why has all this happened to us if the
    LORD is with us? What happened to all the
    wonderful things that our fathers told us the
    LORD used to do---how he brought them out of
    Egypt? The LORD has abandoned us and left us to
    the mercy of the Midianites.
  • Can you say that to God?
  • Abraham, Moses, Job, David, Jeremiah

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Gideon
  • Then the LORD ordered him, Go with all your
    great strength and rescue Israel from the
    Midianites. I myself am sending you. Gideon
    replied, But Lord, how can I rescue Israel? My
    clan is the weakest in the tribe of Manasseh, and
    I am the least important member of my family.
  • Can you doubt God in his own presence?
  • The LORD answered, You can do it because I will
    help you. You will crush the Midianites as easily
    as if they were only one man. Gideon replied,
    If you are pleased with me, give me some proof
    that you are really the LORD. Please do not leave
    until I bring you an offering of food.
  • Is God offended if we are weak in faith?
  • He said, I will stay until you come back.
    (Judges 611-18 GN)

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Gideon
  • So Gideon went into his house and cooked a young
    goat and used a bushel of flour to make bread
    without any yeast. He put the meat in a basket
    and the broth in a pot, brought them to the
    LORDs angel under the oak tree, and gave them to
    him. The angel told him, Put the meat and the
    bread on this rock, and pour the broth over
    them. Gideon did so. Then the LORDs angel
    reached out and touched the meat and the bread
    with the end of the stick he was holding. Fire
    came out of the rock and burned up the meat and
    the bread. Then the angel disappeared. Gideon
    then realized that it was the LORDs angel he had
    seen, and he said in terror, Sovereign LORD! I
    have seen your angel face-to-face! (Judges
    619-22 GN)
  • What if we are so weak in faith that even this
    does not convince?

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Gideon
  • Then Gideon said to God, You say that you have
    decided to use me to rescue Israel. Well, I am
    putting some wool on the ground where we thresh
    the wheat. If in the morning there is dew only on
    the wool but not on the ground, then I will know
    that you are going to use me to rescue Israel.
  • How many chances does God give us if we are weak
    in faith?
  • That is exactly what happened. When Gideon got up
    early the next morning, he squeezed the wool and
    wrung enough dew out of it to fill a bowl with
    water. Then Gideon said to God, Don't be angry
    with me let me speak just once more. Please let
    me make one more test with the wool. This time
    let the wool be dry, and the ground be wet.
  • If you were God would you grant this request?
  • That night God did that very thing. The next
    morning the wool was dry, but the ground was wet
    with dew. (Judges 636-40 GN)
  • Hebrews 11
  • While Gideons men were blowing their trumpets,
    the LORD made the enemy troops attack each other
    with their swords (Judges 722 GN)

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The judges
  • After Gideons death the people of Israel were
    unfaithful to God again and worshiped the Baals.
    They made Baal-of-the-Covenant their god, and no
    longer served the LORD their God, who had saved
    them from all their enemies around them (Judges
    833 GN)
  • Gideons son Abimelech The men of Shechem gave
    him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of
    Baal-of-the-Covenant, and with this money he
    hired a bunch of worthless scoundrels to join
    him. He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and
    there on top of a single stone he killed his
    seventy brothers, Gideons sons. (Judges 94,5
    GN)

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The judges
  • Again the Israelites did evil in the Lords
    sight. They worshiped images of Baal and
    Ashtoreth, and the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab,
    Ammon, and Philistia. Not only this, but they
    abandoned the Lord and no longer served him at
    all. So the Lord burned with anger against
    Israel, and he handed them over to the
    Philistines and the Ammonites, who began to
    oppress them that year. For eighteen years they
    oppressed all the Israelites east of the Jordan
    River in the land of the Amorites (that is, in
    Gilead). The Ammonites also crossed to the west
    side of the Jordan and attacked Judah, Benjamin,
    and Ephraim. The Israelites were in great
    distress. Finally, they cried out to the Lord,
    saying, We have sinned against you because we
    have abandoned you as our God and have served the
    images of Baal.

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The judges
  • The Lord replied, Did I not rescue you from the
    Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the
    Philistines, the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and
    the Maonites? When they oppressed you, you cried
    out to me, and I rescued you. Yet you have
    abandoned me and served other gods. So I will not
    rescue you anymore. Go and cry out to the gods
    you have chosen! Let them rescue you in your hour
    of distress!
  • But the Israelites pleaded with the Lord and
    said, We have sinned. Punish us as you see fit,
    only rescue us today from our enemies. Then the
    Israelites put aside their foreign gods and
    served the Lord. And he was grieved by their
    misery (Judges 106-16 NLT)

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Jephthah
  • Jephthah, a brave soldier from Gilead, was the
    son of a prostitute (Judges 111 GN)
  • And Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh, If you
    deliver the Ammonites into my grasp, the first
    thing to come out of the doors of my house to
    meet me when I return in triumph from fighting
    the Ammonites shall belong to Yahweh, and I shall
    sacrifice it as a burnt offering. Jephthah
    crossed into Ammonite territory to attack them,
    and Yahweh delivered them into his graspIt was a
    very severe defeat, and the Ammonites were
    humbled by the Israelites. As Jephthah returned
    to his house at Mizpah, his daughter came out to
    meet him, dancing to the sound of tambourines.
    She was his only child apart from her, he had
    neither son nor daughter. When he saw her, he
    tore his clothes and exclaimed, Oh my daughter,
    what misery you have brought upon me! You have
    joined those who bring misery into my life! I
    have made a promise before Yahweh which I cannot
    retract.

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Jephthah
  • She replied, Father, you have made a promise to
    Yahweh treat me as the promise that you have
    made requires, since Yahweh has granted you
    vengeance on your enemies the Ammonites. She
    then said to her father, Grant me this! Let me
    be free for two months. I shall go and wander in
    the mountains, and with my companions bewail my
    virginity. He replied, Go, and let her go away
    for two months. So she went away with her
    companions and bewailed her virginity in the
    mountains. When the two months were over she went
    back to her father, and he treated her as the vow
    that he had uttered bound him. She had remained a
    virgin. And hence, the custom in Israel for the
    daughters of Israel to leave home year by year
    and lament over the daughter of Jephthah the
    Gileadite for four days every year (Judges
    1130-40 New Jerusalem Bible)
  • Did he do the right thing?
  • No comment from heaven
  • Hebrews 11
  • God recognized a glimmer of integrity, even in
    the face of a foolish oath
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