Session – 93

The Book of Judges Chapter 12

In Session 92, Chapter 11, we learned that the God of Israel is just that, the God of Israel—his creators.

Chapter 12

The Puppet Master

Jephthah wasn’t satisfied with throwing his only daughter into the fire in exchange for 30,000 dead carcasses of Ammon men, women, and children, and the destruction of twenty of their cities; he decided to get into a fight with 42,000 Ephraimites who were upset with Jephthah because he didn’t invite them to the Ammon slaughter. God gives Jephthah a bonus for the soul of his daughter—he delivers all 42,000 men of E’-phra-im into his hands. Wow! 62,000 dead, for the price of one!

Summary

Hold on a minute! Let’s back up a second: And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the children of Ammon. And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years (Judg. 10: 7-8).

God was punishing the Israelites for worshipping other gods other than himself for the umpteen time, and for the umpteen time, Israel cries out to their Lord God of Israel to save them, and for the umpteen time, God looks the other way and wipes out entire civilizations of men, women, and children—in order to save Israel from those who were doing what God told them to do, for the umpteen time! He’s not a God! He’s a puppet master who’s got the Christians on a string—dancing to his Looney Tunes! There’s never a bartender around when you need one!

A perfect example of what I’m saying can be found in the ‘Ten Commandments,’ which billions of Christians believe is divinely inspired. The problem is that the ‘Ten Commandments’ were divinely inspired by the “Egyptian Book of the Dead!”

Ivan Peter Kovak