JESUS SAW HIMSELF IN GENESIS About justice To Know: ³Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacobıs sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinahıs brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male. They put Hamor and his son Sheckem to the sword and took Dinah from Sheckemıs house and left. The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where their sister had been defiled.² (Gen. 34:25-27) ³It is mine to avenge; I will repay,² says the Lord. These words God spoke long after Jacob was dead. Neither did God enact a law that has done great good in millions of lives over the years. Moses, Leviıs descendant, spoke for God when he said, ³eye for eye, tooth for tooth.² (Ex. 21:24) Americans, who enjoy the rule of law and not men, have profoundly benefited by putting the principle of justice in the place of unbridled vengeance. We glory in making the penalty fit the crime. We abhor the slaughter of the Shechemites in retaliation for the rape of Dinah. Many no longer know that justice (eye for eye, tooth for tooth) comes to us from the Bible. God, who appeared on earth in both human form and written form, gives this protection we enjoy to us. Jesus is the human form of Godıs Word and the Bible is the written form of Godıs Word. The Puritans believed Christ called for them to come to North America. John Winthrop, Massachusettsı first Governor, offered that if they safely navigated 3000 miles of perilous North Atlantic, it would be evidence that Christ was behind the rise of the American mind. Since we live near Gloucester where the perfect storm was filmed, I drove to the fishermen statue to contemplate Winthropıs stipulation. In front of the statue are ten concrete slabs on which are mounted ten bronze plaques containing over 5000 names of Gloucester natives lost at sea. About 25,000 Puritans traversed the Atlantic on hundreds of ships over a period of ten years and not a single ship is recorded as having been sunk. No one was reported lost at sea. One town lost thousands because the ocean is such a powerful adversary to those who ply its waves. Did the Lord spare the Puritans because they came here to plant the truth of divine justice in this land? The history of the United States would answer yes. 020310$-020310 <{{{{{{>< Other posts:
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