I seem to have no choice but to accept that God is the manipulator and the controller of fate. He sees the human race as a collective and individuals as cogs in the machine. Therefore, there are no problems with directly ordering the armies of Israel to engage in brutal slaughter.
The Canaanites and the Amalekites are the prime examples of this. If you happen to be an infant born into one of these cultures then God hates you down to the bone. You exist only to be made an example of and to be target practice for the Israelites. There is little doubt that the leaders and the adult population of these two cultures deserved their fate because of their grave sin and their threats of violence against Israel....but God wanted to go further than that. From the beginning of infinity God decided that every last Canaanite and Amalekite infant was worthless. They were worthless before the foundation of the Earth was formed.
This completely changes the way I see the gospel now.
God did not send Jesus to save the human race. He came to save his people....maybe a few thousand of them. He saves all his best attributes for this spiritual elite. He has named the very hairs on their heads. His opinion of every other living human couldn't be more different. He hates them down to the molecule! His fiery eyes gaze down from a dark sky waiting for our disgusting selves to make an error knowing full well that we all will. Only the very few are capable of genuine repentance. The rest of us are liars and self deceived
It is very likely that myself and probably everyone who will read this post is damned. God has not come to save as many as possible because he doesn't really care about our souls. He cares about the souls of a very small number.
I don't know how to get around this. My heart is completely broken.
Actually we should comprehend first , who are humans living in this planet in the eyes of God ?, are they commensurate with each other , or are they equal in the god’s eyes ?.
Why then there:
Rom9:7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
9:8 That is,
They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed
John1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,
but of God
Why should God hate Esau and love Jacob , even though they were not yet born ?.
Rom9:13 As it is written,
Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
If there are
two kinds of humans living in this planet
in the eyes of God (
only God knows ), so it was plausible that God treated them with different manners .
Now the case is what is the difference?.
Born of God =
the chosen = there is spirit being within this physical creature /God put spirit being inside the body ( human’s spirit ) (Zec12:1 ,Isa 46:3 ) , this spirit being had already been with God before the creation of the world , and his or her name had also been written in the book of life , all those names will be sent one by one
to sojourn/wander to this planet (2Cor5:4 , 1Pet1:17 ), known as
the physically chosen people ( but definitive chosen people (Jews) just only for the stipulation , for the common embraces the new covenant after Jer31:29-33 ) = have spiritual ears ( Matt13:9 ,Rev3:6 ) .
Born of flesh = there is no spirit being within this physical creature at the beginning they were born / God didn’t put spirit being inside the body , dust (Gen3:14) like animal (not intend to rude ) (Ecc3:19 ) , it is possible for them to be the camp of the devil for manifesting the devil’s deed, so in the last day the devils shall be judged /without them surely the devils will never be able to be judged (Rev20:12 ) = with no spiritual ears .
In OT especially before new covenant Jer31:29-33 , the devils had not been bound ,they surely abode to every born of flesh humans as their meals ( Gen3:14) ( for examples : victims in flood , Sodom and Gomorrah, Canaanites , Amalekites ), but in NT and for our sake the devils had already been bound and sealed in the bottomless pit( means not free to abide Luk11:24-26, only a few of born of flesh humans can be used for manifesting their deed / there are devils that transform to be the angels of light , there are antichrists, there are false teachers , there are false prophets ).
Then if all of His people have already sojourned/wander well , the devils surely will be loosed for awhile ( Rev20:3 ,Rev20:8-9 ).
If the born of flesh people that time were treated with love , so His people were threatened to be lost /failed , and
we will never understand that
the Salvation is by God’s Grace alone because there was no
definitive chosen people , and for their own sake will never do some thing that gives opportunity to inherit the eternity (because the spirits inside them are the devils ,they themselves have no spirit beings ) .
So God doesn’t love genocide, just for our sake then God should treat the born of flesh differently that time , but only valid that time.
Note: No one really knows who is born of God , who is born of flesh ,
only God knows.
Zec12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth,
and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Isa46:3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel,
which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb
2Cor5:4
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life
1Pet1:17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work,
pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
Jer31:29 In those days
they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
31:30
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
31:32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Mat13:9
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Rev3:6
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Gen3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and
dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life ( dust =born of flesh )
Ecc3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath;
so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity
Rev20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life:
and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled:
and after that he must be loosed a little season
Rev20:8
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
(in Noah flood catastrophe , Sodom and Gomorrah catastrophe , Canaanites, Amalekites that time were like this as well )
20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
