Jael With The Nail..

by Englishman 25 Replies latest jw friends

  • Englishman
    Englishman

    This little snippet from the Survival book intrigued me somewhat:

    >>>>>>13 Some 180 years after Hobab decided to go with Israel, one of his descendants, a man named Heber, was living with his wife, Jael, not far from Megiddo. Heber had separated himself from the rest of the Kenites and had entered into peaceful relations with Jabin, a Canaanite king who harshly oppressed Israel. When Jehovah raised up Barak as a deliverer of Israel, Jabin’s army chief, Sisera, mustered his army and nine hundred war chariots with iron scythes fixed to the wheels. But Jehovah fought for his people, causing confusion in the enemy camp, and a flash flood to bog down the chariots. Sisera himself abandoned his chariot and fled on foot toward the tent of Jael the wife of Heber. As Sisera had hoped, she invited him into the tent.—Judges 4:4-17; 5:20, 21.

    14

    Now the test was on. What would she do to this enemy of Jehovah’s people? She covered Sisera with a blanket, quenched his thirst with curdled milk and waited until he fell asleep. At that she "proceeded to take a pin of the tent and to put the hammer into her hand. Then she went to him stealthily and drove the pin into his temples and beat it into the earth, while he was fast asleep and weary. So he died." What she did required courage, and love for Jehovah and his people. It also involved positive action and exertion on her part.—Judges 4:18-22; 5:24-27, 31.

    15

    As is true of other non-Israelite worshipers of Jehovah, Jael pictures the "other sheep" who do good to Christ’s spiritual brothers. Regardless of what ties their close relatives may have to the world and its ruling class, the "other sheep" do not approve of oppression of Jehovah’s people by worldly rulers. Their loyalty is to the Greater Barak, the Lord Jesus Christ, and to his true followers. These of the Jael class do not personally raise a hand against the worldly rulers, but they use whatever is at their disposal to counteract efforts to oppress Jehovah’s servants. They do not hold back from making known that they are in full harmony with Jehovah’s purpose to destroy all of his enemies<<<<<<

    A WT article also stated that Jael ascended straight into heaven when she died.

    So there you go. Decide who's an enemy of Jehovah's people, invite them in, give them something nice to drink, make them comfortable enough so that they can sleep, then obtain one large tent-pin, a hefty mallet, then drive the pin through the victims skull and expect to get taken get up to heaven as a reward.

    Sounds a little familiar, eh?

    Englishman.

  • JustTickledPink
    JustTickledPink

    The absolute brutality in the Bible always confused me. It reads more like a history book, then about serving God.

    The terrorists fighting for Allah think if they kill an American they are doing "god's will"... what's different from their belief than what Jael did? You can't tell me because she was serving Jehovah she was right and justified, and they are wrong because they don't have the "truth"....

    Murder is wrong. Always has been. But is glorified and praised according to what you posted. Makes no bit of sense to me.

  • Narkissos
    Narkissos
    A WT article also stated that Jael ascended straight into heaven when she died.

    Wow. That would be news: I thought according to the WT nobody went to heaven before Pentecost (even not Enoch and Elijah, contrarily to explicit OT texts).

    Btw, good to "see" you, and best wishes for a full and speedy recovery...

  • ozziepost
    ozziepost

    Eman, Eman!

    What you spending your convalescence reading that rubbish for??!!

    Anyways, I'm not sure about this:

    A WT article also stated that Jael ascended straight into heaven when she died.

    Really? That'd be a turnup. They've always taught that all those who died pre-cruxifiction were to have an earthly resurrection. Mind you, that's just their interpretation!

    Now get back to some uplifting reading, like The Sun!

    Cheers, Ozzie

  • LittleToe
    LittleToe

    Ozzie:
    He succeeded in reaching paragraph 13, with that publication. When reading The Sun he rarely gets beyond the back page and page 3

  • outoftheorg
    outoftheorg

    It looks like E MAN took some of the whichtower books to the hospital with him.

    Ya see these books have strong anesthetic properties. So then he didn't need so much morphine.

    If ya don't believe this, just read one. Makes ya want to fall asleep doesn't it??

    Good to see ya back guy.

    Outoftheorg

  • franklin J
    franklin J

    I suppose if Jael "went straight to heaven" for what would today be interperted as MURDER; shunning your loved ones does not seem so bad; does it?

    Eman, hope you are doing well. Your spending time reading this nonsense is cause for alarm.

    frank

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    *** w94 2/15 p. 29 The Assumption?A Dogma Revealed By God? ***

    Yet, was not Mary blessed or favored? Yes, but interestingly, the woman named Jael back in the days of Israel?s judges was considered to be "blessed among women." (Judges 5:24, Dy) Certainly no one would argue that Jael too was taken bodily into heaven. Besides, the whole idea of the Assumption is based on the premise that Jesus himself ascended to heaven in the flesh. However, the Bible says that Jesus was "enlivened," or resurrected, "in the spirit." (1 Peter 3:18, Dy; compare 1 Corinthians 15:45.) The apostle Paul further says that "flesh and blood cannot possess the kingdom of God."?1 Corinthians 15:42-50, Dy.

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    So if this sort of thing happened today, Jael could've just put some dioxin in the warm milk.

  • M.J.
    M.J.

    So, they're saying that Jael could go into heaven bodily but Jesus couldn't because "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God"???? What, did Jael get a free "flesh and blood pass"?

    I can't see how drawing parallels between Jael and today's JWs would be for any purpose but to insensitize JWs to the humanity of their perceived enemies. I mean, Hitler could have used the same analogy.

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