Posted on 08/11/2013 7:31:52 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
I wouldn’t shed a tear if it did.
Being Christian, I would sympathize with any slaughtered person’s family, but I’d also suggest to those Gazans that they get a clue or two about being curse magnets. They don’t have to be curse magnets, the spiritual choice is theirs.
My sympathy would be greatly mitigated by the fact that they are going to celebrate the release of those that murdered members of my extended family, and celebrated the murders themselves (friend of mine said that: “We are the world’s tiniest nation, but the world’s biggest family”). Not one tear. It would be poetic justice if the poison snake they take to their own bosom bites them, as snakes will.
Well, I think of the overall glory of God, who DID say that it was going to be too little a thing to save only the Jews. I think Jews sometimes regard God’s love as too small, not as too large.
And... the corollary is that God will bless such a gesture of sympathy as well. The suffering of Jews is NOT in vain... every single Jew who puts salvational trust in “HaShem” (Jehovah, etc. we are referring to the same God) is then blessed for good things they do to both Jew AND to Gentile. Sometimes it is a balancing act. We’re talking about hypotheticals anyhow and when a real situation like that happens then the Lord will direct what to do.
I do not know if you are “conventional rabbinical Jewish” or “Christian Jewish.” My theology is copacetic with the latter, although I personally live a Christian life under gentile ceremonial norms. I boldly state that Torah Jewish is in fact Christian Jewish... until you can take scissors and cut a whole bunch of stuff out of the Torah and never get it back again.
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