February 10, 2025
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Reading along with us in Deuteronomy and Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:
Deuteronomy 22 (NIV)
1 If you see your fellow Israelite’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to its owner. 2 If they do not live near you or if you do not know who owns it, take it home with you and keep it until they come looking for it. Then give it back. 3 Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it.……Continue Reading
Deuteronomy 21 & 22
Deuteronomy 22
God deals with a large array of things in this chapter from kindness toward animals right up to rape. I am struck by the fact that the same people that are being reminded to help a baby bird are also the people being warned about cross-dressing, slander, and rape. The potential continuum of human behavior from good to evil is astounding and I gues we all posses that potential.
I hear stories of horrible things people do and while I can not wrap my head around how they got to such an evil place we must remember the power of having God in our lives and the damage that happens when we reject Him. We are ALL sinners and the further we move away from Him the more that sin takes root in our lives.
A women not wearing men’s clothing Nor a man wearing women’s clothing Detested by God. Marriage violations. Follow these laws. There would be about 20 people living
Deuteronomy 22
Deuteronomy 21
Deuteronomy 22
Deuteronomy 22
Trans not permitted in Bible. Who would have thought we would go so far as to not only just dress differently, but to surgically alter ourselves….or our children. 😞
”“A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God.“
Deuteronomy 22:5 NKJV
Rape is akin to murder. Would that the consequences nowadays were the same, justice for women and I suspect men of such ilk might behave.
”“But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. But you shall do nothing to the young woman; there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter.“
Deuteronomy 22:25-26 NKJV
Deuteronomy 22
We are to be aware of the needs of others and protect the things they own and also watch ourselves in what ways we might dishonor God and what He has set as right standards. If I recall when we went through Deuteronomy that the verses about men and women and clothes goes beyond that to include men not doing women things and vice versa. What a message this is to world confused about gender when God intends for it to be black and white. We are to be compassionate to those in our age that struggle with such things, but God makes clear what His desire and direction is. And it is interesting to see the protection for women in these other passages that would not allow men to use them and then set them aside. It would be necessary for them to be pure (the man too, for that matter) but because there would be less provision for them, they would be protected if they were. This goes the same when they held no responsibility in a man forcing himself on her. It is fitting that God compares that to murder as to how a woman is impacted by being victimized in that way. And the implication of this is men would need to control themselves as well in how they treated women. Our sexualized society has many issues that the word of God can give direction and protection in.