Judges 9-10
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I'm not sure why, but today's reading reminded me of a comic book. You have the bad guy, Abimelech, who tricked a bunch of people into making him ruler of the land. He killed everyone in his way, whom happened to be his OWN BROTHERS. Poor guy. Well, not really. He's still the evil one.
Then comes this other guy, the Superman of the reading, named Gaal. He recently moved into the town, and a bunch of people that were eating and drinking (probably more of the latter one,) were cursing their leader, Abimelech. The bad guys usually have really cool names. Abimelech isn't very evil-sounding, mostly because I don't know how to pronounce it. Oh well.
So, these guys were drinking a lot and were cursing the bad guy, and Gaal was all "This Abimelech guy is weird and cocky. He shouldn't be the leader, he sounds like an idiot! I should be leader!"
Granted, he might of been a little loopy, or he might of just been joking. But, some knot-head went and told Abimelech that there was this new guy who thought he could overthrow the mighty Abimelech.
Now, Abimelech already had a pretty big head, but, he decided to gather an army and hide in the fields until Gaal walked out.
Then, like any comic, there was a long war-type thing between Abimelech and Gaal, with fires, and attacks, and BAM's and WHAM's and blah blah blah. The fact of the matter is, they fought over a simple statement, and caused a lot of damage in the process. They set entire cities on fire, and the remaining people hid in a tower.
Abimelech found the tower, and was JUST about to set it on fire before this lady dropped a millstone on his big ol' head. Just like in a comic, or cartoon. I can just imagine it: him holding a torch at the bottom of the tower, looking up, then getting hit in the face with a big rock thing. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Before he took his last breaths, he begged his armor-bearer (beacuse was embarrassed to be defeated by a women, (jerk,) to kill him, so he wouldn't die from a woman. What a sexist creep.
Later, after the bad guy was killed, the Israelites continued to sin and worship other gods, even after God delivered them from harm time and time and time again. They weren't very smart. Once you steer away from Jesus, it's not like you can just ask for forgiveness again and again and again.
Well, you can, because he'll still love you no matter what. But you have to make a conscious effort to not make the same mistake. The Israelites sinned, were forgiven and redeemed, then sinned again! It makes me angry!
Anyway, they realized they dug their own grave, and asked for redemption from God, and FINALLY God put down the hammer and told them "NO! I've saved you too many times, only for you to continue to sin! I will NOT save you again! How about you ask your OTHER "gods" to save you! You seem to worship them more than me!"
Those poor Israelites. God totally dissed them or pwned them, or told them off. Whatever you want to call it, they were rejected by the loving-est person in the entire universe, which must of hurt. They finally realized that they shouldn't worship other Gods, and threw them away.
God saw how they listened, and called it even. Who knows what they'll do next, you just might have to read in order to find out! Ha, the ultimate cliff-hanger comic book.
If you take anything from today's blog, take this: DON'T SIN AGAINST GOD. No, no one is perfect. (Shocker.) But it's written in plain text, "Do not put any other gods before Me." It's one of the 10 commandments, people! So no matter what, stay true to your God, the only God.
Have a wonderful day! Peace out!
Read these chapters right now before you read today's blog, it will help you understand it. I know, I know, you just got situated, and there's not a Bible handy. Read these two chapters with the BIBLE READER widget to the left of this post, or at www.bible.com!
I'm not sure why, but today's reading reminded me of a comic book. You have the bad guy, Abimelech, who tricked a bunch of people into making him ruler of the land. He killed everyone in his way, whom happened to be his OWN BROTHERS. Poor guy. Well, not really. He's still the evil one.
Then comes this other guy, the Superman of the reading, named Gaal. He recently moved into the town, and a bunch of people that were eating and drinking (probably more of the latter one,) were cursing their leader, Abimelech. The bad guys usually have really cool names. Abimelech isn't very evil-sounding, mostly because I don't know how to pronounce it. Oh well.
So, these guys were drinking a lot and were cursing the bad guy, and Gaal was all "This Abimelech guy is weird and cocky. He shouldn't be the leader, he sounds like an idiot! I should be leader!"
Granted, he might of been a little loopy, or he might of just been joking. But, some knot-head went and told Abimelech that there was this new guy who thought he could overthrow the mighty Abimelech.
Now, Abimelech already had a pretty big head, but, he decided to gather an army and hide in the fields until Gaal walked out.
Then, like any comic, there was a long war-type thing between Abimelech and Gaal, with fires, and attacks, and BAM's and WHAM's and blah blah blah. The fact of the matter is, they fought over a simple statement, and caused a lot of damage in the process. They set entire cities on fire, and the remaining people hid in a tower.
Abimelech found the tower, and was JUST about to set it on fire before this lady dropped a millstone on his big ol' head. Just like in a comic, or cartoon. I can just imagine it: him holding a torch at the bottom of the tower, looking up, then getting hit in the face with a big rock thing. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Before he took his last breaths, he begged his armor-bearer (beacuse was embarrassed to be defeated by a women, (jerk,) to kill him, so he wouldn't die from a woman. What a sexist creep.
Later, after the bad guy was killed, the Israelites continued to sin and worship other gods, even after God delivered them from harm time and time and time again. They weren't very smart. Once you steer away from Jesus, it's not like you can just ask for forgiveness again and again and again.
Well, you can, because he'll still love you no matter what. But you have to make a conscious effort to not make the same mistake. The Israelites sinned, were forgiven and redeemed, then sinned again! It makes me angry!
Anyway, they realized they dug their own grave, and asked for redemption from God, and FINALLY God put down the hammer and told them "NO! I've saved you too many times, only for you to continue to sin! I will NOT save you again! How about you ask your OTHER "gods" to save you! You seem to worship them more than me!"
Those poor Israelites. God totally dissed them or pwned them, or told them off. Whatever you want to call it, they were rejected by the loving-est person in the entire universe, which must of hurt. They finally realized that they shouldn't worship other Gods, and threw them away.
God saw how they listened, and called it even. Who knows what they'll do next, you just might have to read in order to find out! Ha, the ultimate cliff-hanger comic book.
If you take anything from today's blog, take this: DON'T SIN AGAINST GOD. No, no one is perfect. (Shocker.) But it's written in plain text, "Do not put any other gods before Me." It's one of the 10 commandments, people! So no matter what, stay true to your God, the only God.
Have a wonderful day! Peace out!
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