The People Of Israel As A Punishment

In the Bible and in Greek stories, the price of disobeying a god is either severe punishment or death. In the second source of chapter three, God orders the Pharaoh several times to let the Israelites go free from Egypt. And each time, the Pharaoh does not listen causing increasingly harsh punishments to fall on Egypt. The punishment that makes Pharaoh finally change his mind, is the one that “strikes down every first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast” (34). The Pharaoh, finally realizing that he should obey God before any more people (or animals) die, lets the Israelite people go. In the book of the Bible called Jeremiah, God’s wrath is again placed upon those who do not obey. The people of Jerusalem are worshipping other deities,

Indeed, I would also argue that Samson is a fool. His story begins with a lot of promises, born from a barren woman who received direct instructions from the angel of the Lord who brought a message to her saying that the child will be a “nazarite” unto god from the womb of his mother, which means a consecrated person to the services of God and who is under vows to abstain from alcohol, who must let his hair grow and who must avoid fornication. All these for the purpose of saving Israel from all the years spent under the oppression of the Philistines where God delivered them to after they have done evil on His sight.

Before Palestine, thee land was known as the land of Canaan. The Philistines, who were known to be great enemies of the Israelites, established Philistia, which is the biblical name of modern day Palestine (Novak 176). In the Bible, King Abimelech rules the Philistines during the age of Abraham (Gen. 20:32; 26:8). According to additional biblical sources, however, “the Philistines were a “Sea People” from the region of Crete who invaded the Levant toward the end of the Late Bronze/Iron I Ages a time generally identified with the Exodus and conquest of Canaan” (Novak 176). The Hebrews of the time migrated to the land of Canaan, modern day Israel and

When the Holocaust is mentioned, the first thing people think of is usually the concentration camps or Hitler. Most people forget about the other tragic events that occurred outside of the camps. More importantly, they usually identify they blame the wrong people who had committed these crimes. The Einsatzgruppen had operated in the territories and areas owned by the Germans. These Killing Squads were told to murder people and had done so willingly. They had found the most brutal ways to torture and murder the Jews of Eastern Europe and Asia.

Inmate Christian Longo was convicted of the crimes he committed and he was on death row, he wrote an appeal to have his organs donated when he was executed, however he was denied. In an editorial by Longo put in the New York Times he said, “Eight years ago I was sentenced to death for the murders of my wife and three children. I am guilty. I once thought that I could fool others into believing this was not true. Failing that, I tried to convince myself that it didn’t matter. But, gradually, the enormity of what I did speeded in: that was followed by remorse and then a wish to make amends.” “I have asked to end my remaining appeals, and then donate my organs after my execution to those who need them. And yet, the prison authority’s response to my latest appeal to donate was this: ‘The interests of the public and condemned inmates are best served by denying the petition’.” Longo went on to tell “that there are more inmates on death row that wanted to do the same and that there was no valid reason as to why they could not, but they were all denied the opportunity (Christian Longo).” There is no reason why inmates shouldn’t be allowed to donate their organs if that is what they want to do, as stated earlier, inmates who die in prison should have to donate their organs if they are healthy organs and are positive matches to anyone on the donor transplant list. Longo and many others want to give their organs to save lives, why are people telling them no, just because they are

Most everyone reflects on and thinks of the Holocaust as a horrifying, heartless slaughter of the Jews. The Holocaust can be a very hard, depressing issue to discuss but it is a major part of history and cannot be ignored. The Holocaust affected countless numbers of people in the past and it continues to affect many to this day. The Jewish population was the population that most affected the most through the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler had way too much power and he used that position of excessive power to nearly destroy the Jews.

At the end of the second world war, when the Nazi’s were already in the act of exterminating six million Jews and 25% of these Jews were children. This was called the “holocaust”. The Nazis wanted to end the entire Jewish population and its culture. . Adolf Hitler also known by only his last name, was the leader of the Nazi party and he demanded that the Jews were tortured and killed. This event became worst and worst slowly between 1933 and 1945. This event basically made the word “racism”. If you look back in time, this was the first time racism was used. The extermination of Jews gave the case of the word racism, which is why the word I used so much till this day

The Holocaust was a mass murder of millions of individuals’ primary to and during World War II. “Only 54 percent of the people surveyed by the Anti- Defamation League (ADL) in a massive, global poll have ever heard of the Holocaust” (Wiener-Bronner). The Holocaust was from 1933-1945 and was run by German leader named Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a man who wanted to create his own race of people. Therefore to create this race, he wiped out anyone who did not have the specific descriptions that he wanted. For people to fit into his race, they had to have blue eyes and blond hair. This excluded the Jews and from then on Hitler slowly dehumanized them. In the concentration camp the first thing they had to pass was the selection test. The selection test was what the SS man (German soldiers) used to determine who was fit for work. Usually children, mothers, and elders were the first to die because they were not mentally fit for the work they were going to be given. People who passed the selection process either died by starvation, disease, fatigue, or assassination. It took twelve years before anyone intervened and by then it was too late for millions of people. Even though over twelve million people died during the Holocaust, genocides have still happened in Rwanda, Darfur and Cambodia.

The Abomination of Desolation is referred to 4x in Daniel 8:13; 9:27; 11:31; 12:11. The first and immediate reference was to the Syrian king Antiochus who ruled over Palestine in 175-65 b.c. He called himself Theos Epiphanes ("manifest God") but his enemies called him Epimanes ("madman; the insane one").

Unlike the other two major religions Judaism evolved form the Israelites who didn't deny the existence of other gods for other nations, though they only worshipped one deity. Its deity was Yahweh, the god of the patriarchs, who was worshipped in a sacrificial cult centered in Jerusalem and later at sanctuaries in the north, where a rival Jewish kingdom was formed. Prophets who warned against the people's reliance on these temple cults saw themselves vindicated when both the northern and southern kingdoms were destroyed by foreign conquerors. The exile of the Judeans to Babylonia in 586 BC was a major turning point in Israelite religion. The prior history of Israel now was reinterpreted

Since the Israelites did not follow God, they were oppressed by the Midianites for several years, and when the Israelites call out to God because of the Midian, God sent them a prophet, who said, “I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I snatched you from the power of Egypt and from the hand of all your oppressors. I drove them from before you, I am the Lord your God; do not worship, or some version says fear, the gods of Amorites, in whose land you live; but you have not listened to me.”

The nation of Israel was set apart as holy to the LORD. But they When the children of Israel demanded a king, they did so to be like the other nations. The first three kings were Saul, (outwardly tall, handsome and strong—a seemingly good choice for a king, but inwardly arrogant, proud and unrepentant—not God’s choice), David (a man after God’s own heart who repented of his sins and as such was God’s choice), and Solomon (the wisest man who ever lived, but because of covenant disobedience became the catalyst for the division and ultimate exile of Israel.

The writings in Daniel record his experiences as well as the records and events during the Babylonian captivity from 560 to 535 B.C. The purpose of Daniel can be seen as two-fold with a focus on the sovereignty of God and faithfulness of the people and also the prophetic information that is relayed through Daniel’s visons in the later chapters. The major events of Daniel begin with Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah being taken into Babylonian captivity. Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were given the Babylonian names of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and survived the fiery furnace to demonstrate their faithfulness to God by refusing to bow to the statute of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel becomes well known for his wisdom and interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s dream regarding the giant statue (Daniel 2) that represents gold in the Babylonian empire, silver in the Medo-Persian empire, bronze in the Greek empire, Iron in the Roman empire, and the significance of iron and clay at the feet and the rock that represents the Kingdom of God.

Driscoll (2012) describes Samson as the last and most famous of the Judges who presided over Israel. He was born during the forty years of Israel's delivery to the Philistines as a result of abandoning God. His first special trait was that he was somewhat of a miracle, being born to a barren woman in the tribe of Dan. An angel appeared to let her know that he would deliver Israel from the Philistines. So Samson's fate as hero to his people was decided already before he was even conceived.

Before, King David gathered a surplus of wealth when in power to bring the Jewish culture into the Golden Age. “With Solomon...the surplus accumulated...rapidly dissipated in ambitious building.” (Asali p.53) through large fortifications and military armaments. At his old age, he placed a heavy tax burden on his people, and in turn they became largely bitter towards him. After his death, massive conflicts came before the people to eventually split Israel and Judah into separate kingdoms. In 800 B.C.E., “two centuries later, the Assyrians conquered the north, and many of the Jews of Israel were deported” (Ardito, Gambaro and Torrefranca p.42). Later, in 600 B.C.E., the kingdom of Judah was overthrown by the Babylons. In turn, this lead to their captivity as slaves; entering a new era of a nomadic culture spread across the western world. On the other hand, it was this captivity which strengthened their religious identity, and evidently propagated the largest monolithic deity known throughout the 21st century: Jesus Christ.