Thus Saith The Lord; Behold, I Will Raise Up Against Babylon, & Against Them That Dwell In The Midst of Them That Rise Up Against Me, A Destroying Wind

Just for an alternate view to some Bible students I believe important, there’s much eschatology, in the web age, that tries to fit world events into Bible prophecy, such that the prophecy doesn’t really mean what it’s saying and the power of Almighty God left unconsidered. I believe we should first view prophecy that explicitly speaks to acts of God as being just that, that He will literally send strong wind, as opposed to some combination natural and man made disaster being stuffed, as if, a square peg into the round hole of Bible prophecy. You’re really saying God (the Creator!) used a tsunami, then is sitting around, waiting for prevailing wind currents to carry radiation West, to accomplish His will, in a verse that states He will send this wind, in the first place? The same is done with red tide and water being turned to blood, though the Bible is explicit about the Lord literally turning water to blood in Egypt. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was neither a belt of asteroids on collision course with earth, the Wormwood of Revelation not a nuclear reactor in Ukraine, because of some dubious linguistic correlation.

The bottom line problem with all this is how it negates the fact that God can act on the world any way He chooses, by power beyond human comprehension, lack of such comprehension hence requiring us to place His acts in the miracle category, for human ignorance over just how the Lord commands matter, very space and time. It’s as if we forget He created all things by His word, at will, has demonstrated His omnipotence many, many times in the Old and New Testaments, that the Lord need not hang around, waiting for man to screw up and the wind to be just so, when, in fact, He has nothing to do with our sin and error, all the stupidity, like Fukushima, that is mankind’s history, nor would He use our sin and error to accomplish His will, works stated of His very hand in prophecy! Actually, this is blasphemy.

So, I believe proper exegesis needs to first look to what is being said, and if it’s said the Lord is going to do thus and such, this means He will do thus and such, without the aid of such as man’s sin and error, his dumb engineering. The Lord has power to create and do anything He wishes, at any time. He created the entire universe, so literally whipping up some wind is hardly a challenge.

We must avoid,

2 Timothy 3:5 having a form of godliness but denying its power…

Who reads the Bible in an objective and unprejudiced way without blinders that fade out certain passages, will (or should…) become deeply indignant about the abominable cruelties described therein.

The “lord” guides his people to the “promised land”, but that land isn’t free. People already live there in various towns. Therefore the “lord” commands his people to mercilessly slaughter all of them.

In nearly all cases not even a child, a woman or an old man is spared, but they should completely all be killed, so that his people can live in:

“great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, and houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full”.

(Deut 6:10-11)

With this, a veritable holocaust begins!

In one city after the other they murder and slaughter until no one is left. The only exception is in a few cases that they kidnap virgins. For what? It would certainly be naïve to claim that it would not be for sexual “services”.

When Moses by order of Yahweh could say as follows, he strongly disqualifies himself and his commissioner:

“And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host… which came from the battle. And Moses said unto them, ‘Have ye saved all the women alive? … Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves’”

(Num 31:14-18).

This rather looks like a mass human sacrifice for the “lord”…

For those who understand German I may suggest to read what the learned Karlheinz Deschner writes about this extremely blood-curdling common history of two world religions [10]. Persons who regard themselves as Christians like to suggest that the victims would be “evil” people who lived in “sin”, and don’t want to understand how they this way betray Jesus’ teachings.

There can be no worse sin than to kill in the name of God (or of his messenger Christ)! And if one kills in the name of Yahweh, or by his order, this shows clearly enough that he cannot be the true god. Jesus taught us that who takes to the sword will be undone by the sword, and even to love our enemies.

When Yahweh rages as follows he demonstrates his fake divinity:

“And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate. …And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.”

(Lev 26:21-29)
The macho behavior began already before the exodus from Egypt. Yahweh sent Moses several times to the Pharaoh to request letting the Hebrews free.

The Pharaoh repeatedly declared that he would do that, but Yahweh the each time hardened his heart so that he, after all, refused:

“…for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him” (Ex 10:1).

Yahweh insisted in showing his muscles and have all the ten plagues come over Egypt before he would let the Pharaoh allow the Hebrews to go. At last he went through Egypt and killed all innocent first-born! (Ex 11:5, 12:12, 12:29, 13:15)

For what did he want to demonstrate all this cruelty? In a similar way he hardened the hearts of the Hivites (living in the “promised Land”) so that they should not try to make piece with the Hebrews but meet them in battle so that they would be mercilessly destroyed (Josh 11:19.20).

If one reads the Bible it looks more like “The Lord” is a demon more then an entity of Devine Love.