I already told you. I did not make up the word "Jehovahnissi". That comes out of the King James.
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You're right. I stand corrected here. I confused two different passages. (Not sure how I did that; but you are correct I did it! I will readily admit when I make a mistake.)
(Now we sit back and see if you will admit where you are wrong? I won't hold my breath on that one - I promise! LOL)
Israel apparently did wipe out Amelak's army at the time of the initial confrontation. Yet, why does this span in passing years negate what I quoted in Genesis about nations filling up their time of appointed wrath?
This is the explanation
SCRIPTURE gives you as to why this happened at the time it did.
So why such an extended period of time?
Well, people don't usually die at the hand of every single sin they commit either. (Sometimes the consequence for sin is immediate. Thief breaks into house and home owner shoots them dead.) One may die at 90 years old and face judgement for sins committed in a war that happened 70 years earlier.
Fact of the matter still remains; we are all still guilty of sin.
Yet who's to say the infants killed of Amelak in the days of Saul were eternally lost either? (Or even that all the adults were eternally lost?) What comes down as judgement "en-mass" does not necessarily determine one's eternal fate.
As I've heard it said in the military: Kill them all and let God sort them out. (Not that I agree morally with that logic; but I understand where it comes from.)
Matter of fact there's a passage in Acts 17 that speaks about this:
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
