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Point of view: this is a very important aspect of the assessment of the LORD’S actions, as in labeling them as being the cause of unnecessary collateral damage. This is also the logic that is applied to our assessment of when something is damaged. In the present day, we tend to see things from a present perspective, and shade them with modern hues of applicability, civility, and varying seriousness of moral disdain. Wherefore a great number of us try to apply modern rules to past events. Let us consider the hazard of doing that too freely. Let us look to Scripture, to evaluate this practice, as applied against some of the events that are deemed as being unacceptable to modern civilizations–of course, varying among the philosophies of the various cultures of the world.

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There are certain rules of avoidance that have been set in society, in general. Among those rules is the concept of incest. Today, as through most of our legal systems, we totally condemn a situation such as this one.

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

(Genesis 19:32-35)Today, there are few cultures that would consider this to be appropriate. Could this be because; there are few societies that would ever truly face the daughters’ crisis. (At this point, please walk in the daughters’ logical framework.)

 

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– Explore Collateral Damage and the Heart of God: Part Twenty-seven –

When we are under servitude (for instance, as being an employee), we need to be open to new opportunities that are a unique part of the life and capabilities of the ones we serve. This is true, at all levels of servitude. In the life of the nation of Israel, there was a time of intense opportunity for learning, as in the following joint venture which was after the one with king Nebuchadnezzar. This is the beginning of the joint ventures to . . .

Implement Variety

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In the cooperation between

Israel and the Medes and Persians

To give Israel a greater breadth of management skills for sharing philosophical collateral, the LORD started moving the people to a directed supervisory role. The role was managed by a different type of civilization than Israel had known before. The period of greatest intensity in that non-divine management, as allowing Israel to be the supervisor, was during this time, here.

Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

(Daniel 6:6-9)This decree was of great significance because; if it was had been designed so as to be automatically activated, it would have terminated the venture at that point. Fortunately, it was such a decree that still required permission before it could be activated. The decree of Darius was of the same sort as a notable serving of judgment of the New Age, as from the plate of Pilate. In that serving, an associate of the nation of Israel, Jesus, was presented to the people for their review, with a designated opinion about the character of the man. The fashion of the presentation was also accusatory, as Daniel’s was.

 

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– Explore Collateral Damage and the Heart of God: Part Twenty-six –