Deuteronomy 7 (성경통독): In This chapter, Moses reminds the people that once God brings them into the country that they are about to enter and take over, He will clear out the superpowers that were there before them: the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Those seven nations are all bigger and stronger than Israel is. Howeve, Moses assures the people that God, their God, will turn the opponents over to then and they will conquer them. At the same time, Moses warns them that they must completely destroy the superpowers once given into their hands offering them up as a holy destruction to God. Moses reminds the people that God wasn’t attracted to them and didn’t choose them because they were big and important—the fact is, there was almost nothing to them. He did it out of sheer love, keeping the promise he made to their ancestors. God's ask is simple: "Tear apart their altars stone by stone, smash their phallic pillars, chop down their sex-and-religion Asherah groves, set fire to their carved god-images."
1 comment:
Deuteronomy 7 (성경통독): In This chapter, Moses reminds the people that once God brings them into the country that they are about to enter and take over, He will clear out the superpowers that were there before them: the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Those seven nations are all bigger and stronger than Israel is. Howeve, Moses assures the people that God, their God, will turn the opponents over to then and they will conquer them. At the same time, Moses warns them that they must completely destroy the superpowers once given into their hands offering them up as a holy destruction to God. Moses reminds the people that God wasn’t attracted to them and didn’t choose them because they were big and important—the fact is, there was almost nothing to them. He did it out of sheer love, keeping the promise he made to their ancestors. God's ask is simple:
"Tear apart their altars stone by stone,
smash their phallic pillars,
chop down their sex-and-religion Asherah groves,
set fire to their carved god-images."
Post a Comment