Hi all!
Here is a copy of an invitation to the Society that was played into my hands today. Was seemingly faxed and mailed to all Bethels worldwide...
Satan’s 6,000 year lease did not expire in 1975, which was 6,000 years after Adam was created, but in 2008 on Nisan14, 6,000 years after he sinned. For he sinned aged 33, the same age that Jesus was when he paid for that sin in a corresponding ransom. So 1975 was 33 years out.
The system began with Adam’s sin and the 6,000 years start counting from there. There are 14 independent scriptural proofs that this system ended on 2008Nisan14 - see www.truebiblecode.com/14proofs.html.
That means that Jesus got married to his wife, the 144,000 anointed first new covenant (1NC) saints in heaven on 2008Nisan14 which was actually March21st.
That in turn means that it is time for his marriage feast. For in every Hebrew wedding the marriage feast follows after the marriage. This feast is called unsurprisingly, the evening meal of the lamb’s marriage.
This meal will be celebrated as the late passover this year, on 2008Iyyar14. It will be eaten at the stroke of midnight at the end of April 20th. The Lords' Witnesses are the only church that knows how to celebrate this seminal event properly. We will hold a celebration in London, England and in Minneapolis in the US on that day, and God willing in many other places too. This is a once only event. This is not merely a once in a lifetime event.
It is a once in an everlasting lifetime event!
7 Let us rejoice and be overjoyed, and let us give him the glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has arrived and his wife has prepared herself.
8 Yes, it has been granted to her to be arrayed in bright, clean, fine linen, for the fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the holy ones.
9 And he tells me: Write: Happy are those invited to the evening meal of the Lamb's marriage. Also, he tells me: These are the true sayings of God (Revelation 19).
Be Happy! All Jehovah's Witnesses are invited to this marriage feast, especially those born before March 24th, 1936
At the celebration, the following scripture will be fulfilled...
24 And he said to them: This is my 'blood of the covenant,' which is to be poured out in behalf of many [not just 144,000].
25 Truly I say to you, I shall by no means drink anymore of the product of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God [not said to be with you].
26 Finally, after singing praises, they went out to the Mount of Olives (Mark 14)
15 And he said to them: I have greatly desired to eat this passover [meal of lamb and unleavened bread and bitter greens and the 4 cups and loaves of the 4 covenants] with you before I suffer;
16 for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it becomes completed [???????] [celebrated fully] in the kingdom of God [which must be before I arrive on earth in Kingdom glory on 2008Sivan6, 7 days after Iyyar29, which is the end of the 1335 days of Daniel 12 - see 1 Corinthians 11:26].
17 And, accepting a cup, he gave thanks and said: Take this and pass it from one to the other among yourselves;
18 for I tell you, From now on I will not drink again from the product of the vine until the kingdom of God arrives (Luke 22).
So brothers in the spirit, born again reserve kings, angelic sons of God, possessors of two souls, reserve components of Jesus' wife, the holy spirit of the Kingdom of God... Dear Mrs Jesus, you are being invited by the Lords' Witnesses on behalf of your master and our Lord, Jesus Christ to come, get baptized and sit on the substitute bench to serve as a king in the kingdom of God. You are invited to serve not where the Watchtower believes the need is greatest in this earthly system, but where our reigning King, Jesus Christ, believes the need is greatest in the next system, the kingdom of God (if our research is correct)!
It is an offer that men of faith cannot refuse. For we are commanded to follow the lamb wherever it goes and his sheep need to go in and out to find pasturage. This would be a good moment to come out and follow Jesus into the last true church. For we are the ones with the food at the proper time. And this is the proper time for that food. Do you want to play a part in fulfilling scripture, or do you want to leave that to someone with more faith?
And if we are wrong, what of it? Better to try and fail than never to try at all. We know that if we act upon our faith we shall be saved, even if our actions are mistaken. Faith in God, faith in the bible, faith in scripture, that is.
Who are the 6,000 1NC reserves?
These are simply the first 6,000 JWs to join the LWs who satisfy the following criteria...
[a] They were at least 20 years old by Hebrew reckoning on 1955Nisan1 (so they must have been born before 1936Nisan1 i.e. before sundown on March24 1936). The sanctification of the non reserve 1NC saints ended in 1925Tishri according to the pattern of Jesus' life mapped onto the start of the Watchtower – see www.truebiblecode.com/understanding41.html. The sanctification of the reserve 1NC saints, gives us the 13th tribe of Revelation 7 (the tribe of Levi), Dan is omitted but has 12,000 sealed like all the other tribes. So there are 156,000 sealed in all, 12,000 of which are reserves, split 6,000 per presence.
[b] They must have joined the Watchtower before it lost its authority over the saints on 1995Tishri15 (after 100 years of feeding the 1NC saints, which started in 1895Tishri, 5 prophetic times after the first presence baptism of the 1NC saints ended in 95Tishri which is 96 years (hours of Acts 10), after Jesus was born on 2Tishri10 BC). They can have joined any time before 1995Tishri15 and they do not need to have stayed in the Watchtower.
[c] They must be spiritual virgins, having not led a false congregation of any sort. So if they have been a presiding overseer or a circuit overseer or a district overseer or a zone overseer, after the Watchtower became a false church on 2004Elul14, then they do not qualify. If they have merely been in a body of elders or even on the governing body but not been the head of any group they are still spiritual virgins. If they have been the head of any other religious group they do not qualify, they are not virgins.
The Watchtower has no idea how to celebrate the lords' evening meal, for the correct way to celebrate it see www.truebiblecode.com/understanding15.html.
Mankind has one more opportunity to get this thing right. Now in the world there is division at every level in every government. The left wing is the mother, the right wing is the father, we all vote pretty much 50/50 left/right and then we have a 4 or 5 year marital dispute for an administration. Division is satanic. It does not work. It is unsustainable. Unity is divine. It does work. It is the future. It is time that the JWs and the LWs join together in the love of the Christ, pushing fear outside. For as Paul said: Love conquers all.
We need to put our differences aside and love Jesus first and each other second and everything else after these two. The kingdom is to be run by 24 elders not 12. These are the 12 1NC apostles in heaven and the 12 2NC apostles on earth. This is the kind of co-operation God is going to bring about. Let’s start it now.
We are holding out all our interpretations and all our love to you our brothers in faith and in spirit in the Watchtower. Lets get this thing right and though we have fallen at all the other fences in the race, let's jump this last one together! Let us end the tragedy of this satanic separation for which Jesus and God's people are paying the price. Let's rejoice together as sower and reaper.
May God bless your faith!
Your little brothers in spirit and faith, the Lords’ Witnesses
Tel: 1 701 412 1254 (US)
Tel: 44 208 906 1676 (UK)
R.S.V.P. [email protected] or [email protected]
WoodHill House, Hendon Wood Lane, London NW7 4HR (Transmitted on April 4th, 2008).
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Fax campaign to WT "Invitation to the Marriage Feast of the Lamb!"
by Philippus79 inhere is a copy of an invitation to the society that was played into my hands today.
was seemingly faxed and mailed to all bethels worldwide... .
so 1975 was 33 years out.
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Any Russell/Rutherford wannabes out there???
by lrkr inok- nows the time for any of you really ambitious, organized, self motivated people out there to get moving.
write a book or two about the coming great change in 2012. link it to obscure bible prophecies.
wait for something to happen (doesn't really matter what- war, terror attack somewhere, death of the pope, worse flu season than most).. then claim divine providence.
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Philippus79
Have a look here:
"This system ends Nisan14 2008"
http://www.truebiblecode.com
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2008
by jefferywhat ini have noticed, and posted a little bit about all the buzz surrounding this year.
there is a little bit of a whisper campaign going around that armageddon is coming this year.
from other posts i notice im not the only one who is seeing this, there is alot of "reminders" that we need to be obedient and trusting of the fds ( which i am of course), along with reminders to stock up and prepare for disasters etc they are really pointing to something.
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Philippus79
For all those prophetically inclined, here is the link to a site that proofs that this system ends Nisan14 2008. This Passover marks the beginning of the 370 days of the Great Tribulation and Armageddon, a chronology corresponding to the flood.
http://www.biblecodeintro.com/intro44.html
To give it to you in a nutshell, it is concluded that Adam's and Jesus' life corresponded temporarily and that the 6000 years of Satan's leasehold over the earth and humankind started when Adam sinned when he was 33,5 years old in 3993BC. Headline: Armageddon from the corresponding ransom and the 7,000 year 'week'
Additionally, it is shown that "2008Nisan14, The last day of this world, falls on the Vernal Equinox and Adam was born on 4027Tishri10, the Autumnal Equinox"
Then, there is the "Midst Prophecy". Jesus died in the exact centre of the First Abrahamic Covenant, the mid point between its inauguration and Armageddon. This can be generalised to: Jesus is temporally central in his 'salvation activities'
Nisan 14, 1943 BCE_____________Nisan 14, 33CE_____________________Nisan14, 2008 CE
Covenant inauguarated______________Jesus' sacrifice_____________________End of this system
X______________________________________X_______________________________X
_____________1975 Lunar Years__________X_________1975 Lunar Years______X
Since the WTS was informed of all of this from 1993 onwards, it is no surprise that they have something which one could call "heightened awareness to endtime chronology".
Kind regards,
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Open letter to the Watchtower about pending doom
by Philippus79 inas i heard the lords' witnesses are again campaigning against the wt in brooklyn.
they have warned bethels and officials all over the world that nyc/the un might suffer a serious terrorist attack this weekend which might also effect the facilities of the society.
anyone heard of this?
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Philippus79
Hi!
As I heard the Lords' Witnesses are again campaigning against the WT in Brooklyn. They have warned Bethels and officials all over the world that NYC/the UN might suffer a serious terrorist attack this weekend which might also effect the facilities of the Society.
Anyone heard of this?
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seeds of doubt
by jacethespace inwhen out in field service circus did you ever speak to an householder who made you question whether this was the truth rather than you getting them to think about what you were saying?or what other things did you see that made you wonder if this is gods org?or convinced you it couldnt be?.
i remember one householder i visited one saturday morning and i started my usual door to door message offering the watchtower and awake but the guy i spoke to seemed to have a good understanding of history and religion and said " we dont want to go back to becoming slaves again like in the past ".and ive never forgot that person and what he said it really made me think about who i might actually be slaving for.. i also started to doubt when some out in field circus left peoples houses saying " if they die at armaggedon its there own fault " and i often used to think how the householder would feel if they heard some of the comments made about them, they would probably never open the door again to jws so much for not stumbling weak ones.. i also know some jws who always boasted about counting their time as soon as they jumped on the bus to the hall for field circus and offered a tract or a dose of anthrax magazine.. other times i was working with an elder who admitted to me that he admired spiritual people cause he didnt feel he was spiritual and felt materalistic which i thought was sad.the same elder told me he didnt think " the truth" could help with everything so much for appointed elders being qualified.. these things and many others just fueled my doubts about jehovahs loving.
but no its not the watchtower its satan and the demons out ta.... getchaa..
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I had an encounter with a guy in his 40ies, living in a nice house, looking healthy, polishing his car when I arrived. I made my introduction about the purpose of life and what he thinks this purpose is. He stopped what he was doing, straightened up, looked directly into my eyes and said: "Young man, I'm 'purposelessly' happy! I am alive now and I enjoy it. Have a great day, such as I do have one!" That really made me think... Phil
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Last Days per WBTS
by bobld ini did not want to start a new topic but i didn't know where to put it.the wbts says we are living in the last days because god has allowed mankind enough time to prove he can't rule himself,jer.10:23.the wbts was changed their mind on blood by allowing the use of fractions due to advances in medical technology.well you say what has that got to do with the last days.what about the advances in the human genome.if man is given enough time maybe he can fine the defective gene that god put in the first humans.they can fine a cure and correct it.then man can live forever.if god ends this system now,he did not give science a chance.the wbts should not put the blame on faulty gov't, for all the bad things in the world.like i said science is in the first nonosecond of research in the human genome.god has to give them at least 1 billion years.after that he can do what he wants.. bob.
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Philippus79
Hi Bobold! Although a bit exaggerated, I think your comment holds a theoretical truth. MAYBE it could be done...someday. But that would mean, that God's intervention would ALWAYS be unjustified. Man and Satan (for those who still believe the Bible) could always say, sorry too early, we need another 100 years. Thus it would never be clarified if Satan's challenge was just and in all the future a angel could rightfully rebell again and say it was too short give me a try... You see that a premature intervention just wouldn't answer the question if man is ultimately better off without God. So from a theological standpoint the global situation must come to a point of no return. The human race must come to the point of total self-annihilation. Only if we reach that point it will be proven without doubt that denying God's principles and his minimum set of rules, putting self-interest first, does lead to corruption is ultimately fatal. I appreciate that this is a "theological" reply but I believe that there are many out there who saw/see the corruption in the WT but have nontheless kept their faith in God and the Bible. So for those, this might be a point to consider. Regards, Phil
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How Many JWs REALLY Died in German Concentration Camps?
by Farkel inin tribute to norman hovland who did the research and wrote this:.
how many jehovah's witnesses in the concentration camps?norman hovland.
how many jehovah's witnesses was there in germany before and shortly after the war?
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Philippus79
Answer: Too many!!!
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Who is the most important man or big shot in the wts nowdays?
by Fisherman in.
i do not know how important the new wts gov bod membes are today.
are they or who are the most important people nowdays?.
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Philippus79
T. Jaracz is old and yes, he has the ultimate word. But don't underestimate Gerrit Loesch. He has a natural instict for power and he surely has a fair share in influencing Jaracz.
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WT stance on blood transfusion is not biblical - proof from NWT
by Philippus79 inthey are idiots, not understanding that the purpose of blood is to sustain/save life.
god did not always punish the "abuse" (intake) of blood.
not when it was done in a life-threatening situation: .
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Philippus79
They are idiots, not understanding that the purpose of blood is to sustain/save life. God did not always punish the "abuse" (intake) of blood. Not when it was done in a life-threatening situation:
When someone attacks you, trying to kill you, they lose their right to their life, their blood. You gain the right to use their life, their blood, only to save your own. You can choose to kill them and spill their blood in self defence with impunity. If your life is in danger then you can make any use of their blood, their life, that in your judgment protects or saves your life, your blood. So you can make any life protecting use of an attacker's blood without his consent, since his attack on your life, your blood, is an implied consent. The legal effect of the attack is merely to grant a consent to the victim to use the attacker's blood in a life protecting way. Therefore you can make any life protecting use of a non attacker's blood with his consent. Therefore you can take a blood transfusion from a consenting person in order to protect your life.
Putting this in a more simple way. God's law on blood exists to protect the sanctity of physical life which is represented by the blood and is owned by God. Therefore a use of blood which saves a life, does not break the law which forbid's abuse of blood. It is actually the purpose of blood to protect life!!!
This is not true of God's law on idolatry. If a false worshipper tells you he will shoot you unless you do an act of false worship, the thing to do is to refuse, and if necessary, kill him, run or get shot.
Here is the relevant part of 1Samuel14:
23 And Jehovah proceeded on that day to save Israel, and the battle itself passed over to Beth-aven.
24 And the men of Israel themselves were hard pressed on that day, and yet Saul put the people under the pledge of an oath, saying: Cursed is the man that eats bread before the evening and until I have taken vengeance upon my enemies! And none of the people tasted bread.
25 And all those of the land came into the woods, when honey happened to be over all the surface of the field.
26 When the people came into the woods, why, look! there was a dripping of honey, but there was no one putting his hand to his mouth, because the people were afraid of the oath.
27 As for Jonathan, he had not been listening when his father put the people under an oath, so he stretched out the tip of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it into the honeycomb and drew his hand back to his mouth, and his eyes began to beam.
28 At this one of the people answered and said: Your father solemnly put the people under oath, saying, 'Cursed is the man that eats bread today!' And the people began to get tired.
29 However, Jonathan said: My father has brought ostracism upon the land. See, please, how my eyes have beamed because I tasted this little bit of honey.
30 How much more so if the people had but eaten today from the spoil of their enemies that they found! For now the slaughter upon the Philistines has not been great.
31 And on that day they kept striking down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people got to be very tired.
32 And the people began darting greedily at the spoil and taking sheep and cattle and calves and slaughtering them on the earth, and the people fell to eating along with the blood [they did not bleed them before they cooked them].
33 So they told Saul, saying: Look! The people are sinning against Jehovah by eating along with the blood. At this he said: You have dealt treacherously. First of all, roll a great stone to me.
34 After that Saul said: Scatter among the people, and you must say to them, 'Bring near to me, each one of you, his bull and, each one, his sheep, and you must do the slaughtering in this place and the eating, and you must not sin against Jehovah by eating along with the blood.' Accordingly all the people brought near each one his bull that was in his hand that night and did the slaughtering there.
35 And Saul proceeded to build an altar to Jehovah. With it he started altar building to Jehovah.
36 Later Saul said: Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until the morning lightens up, and let us not leave a single one among them. To this they said: Anything that is good in your eyes do. Then the priest said: Let us approach here to the [true] God.
37 And Saul began to inquire of God: Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel? And he did not answer him on that day.
38 So Saul said: Come near here, all you keymen of the people, and ascertain and see in what way this sin has come to be today.
39 For as Jehovah, who is the Deliverer of Israel, is alive, even if it is in Jonathan my son, yet he will positively die. But there was no one answering him out of all the people.
40 And he went on to say to all Israel: You yourselves will come to be on the one side, and I and Jonathan my son -- we will come to be on the other side. At this the people said to Saul: What is good in your eyes do.
41 And Saul proceeded to say to Jehovah: Oh God of Israel, do give Thummim! Then Jonathan and Saul were taken, and the people themselves went out.
42 Saul now said: Cast lots to decide between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan got to be taken.
43 Then Saul said to Jonathan: Do tell me, What have you done? So Jonathan told him and said: I did for a fact taste a little honey on the tip of the rod that is in my hand. Here I am! Let me die!
45 At this Saul said: Thus may God do and thus may he add to it, if you do not positively die, Jonathan.
45 But the people said to Saul: Is Jonathan to die, who has performed this great salvation in Israel? It is unthinkable! As Jehovah is alive, not as much as a single hair of his head will fall to the earth; for it was with God that he worked this day. With that the people redeemed Jonathan, and he did not die
46 So Saul withdrew from following the Philistines, and the Philistines themselves went to their place (1 Samuel 14).
This is a very interesting and technical account. Jonathon instigates an attack on the Philistines. Saul makes the people swear an unnecessary oath that limits their ability to do God's work. Jonathon inadvertently breaks this oath being unaware that it existed and God blesses him and the attack nonetheless. Saul then attempts to instigate a further attack on the Philistines on the next Hebrew day, but God does not indicate that he will bless Saul's attack.
in truth it was Saul who was to blame by putting his men in an impossible position with an oath that was tantamount to killing them. He took Israel into the oath in order to appear to be as courageous as his son Jonathon, with whom he was competing. He was actually jealous of his own son, and he risked the lives of the whole army in order to enhance his popularity (he could have run for office today on that ticket and won). Now God did not kill those of the sons of Israel who had eaten blood along with their meat. He could have instructed Saul to attack the Philistines and arranged for everyone who had eaten blood to be killed for example. He could have instructed Samuel to speak to Saul and tell him to kill everyone who had eaten blood. He could have sent an angel and struck them all down as he did in the case of 70,000 of those who agreed to be registered by Joab. But God did not punish any of his people, he merely embarrassed Saul by failing to bless him as he had blessed his son.
Now clearly God did not make a mistake or forget about the men who had eaten the blood! So there must have been extenuating circumstances for the sons of Israel who abused blood. Well if you are prosecuting a war which requires you to chase after people and hack them to pieces with swords, then being tired and hungry and therefore weak, is a life threatening problem. So the extenuating circumstances were that the soldiers were in mortal danger. If the Philistines had launched a counter attack on tired hungry and weak Jews, the result could have been fatal. So obviously there are circumstances wherein abusing blood carries no penalty. We deduce from this account that such circumstances are when the abuse of blood is for the purpose of saving or protecting life.
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Lots have asked for me to post why I did the research on Blood here is why
by skyking inhe asked why couldnt we auto-transfuse ourselves?
everyone at the study group wanted me to answer the question.
was it true jw's could take a transfusion without any sanctions in bulgaria kept flooding in my mind.
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Philippus79
They are idiots, not understanding that the purpose of blood is to sustain/save life. God did not always punish the "abuse" (intake) of blood. Not wheni t was done in a life-threatening situation:
When someone attacks you, trying to kill you, they lose their right to their life, their blood. You gain the right to use their life, their blood, only to save your own. You can choose to kill them and spill their blood in self defence with impunity. If your life is in danger then you can make any use of their blood, their life, that in your judgment protects or saves your life, your blood. So you can make any life protecting use of an attacker's blood without his consent, since his attack on your life, your blood, is an implied consent. The legal effect of the attack is merely to grant a consent to the victim to use the attacker's blood in a life protecting way. Therefore you can make any life protecting use of a non attacker's blood with his consent. Therefore you can take a blood transfusion from a consenting person in order to protect your life.
Putting this in a more simple way. God's law on blood exists to protect the sanctity of physical life which is represented by the blood and is owned by God. Therefore a use of blood which saves a life, does not break the law which forbid's abuse of blood. It is actually the purpose of blood to protect life!!!
This is not true of God's law on idolatry. If a false worshipper tells you he will shoot you unless you do an act of false worship, the thing to do is to refuse, and if necessary, kill him, run or get shot.
Here is the relevant part of 1Samuel14:
23 And Jehovah proceeded on that day to save Israel, and the battle itself passed over to Beth-aven.
24 And the men of Israel themselves were hard pressed on that day, and yet Saul put the people under the pledge of an oath, saying: Cursed is the man that eats bread before the evening and until I have taken vengeance upon my enemies! And none of the people tasted bread.
25 And all those of the land came into the woods, when honey happened to be over all the surface of the field.
26 When the people came into the woods, why, look! there was a dripping of honey, but there was no one putting his hand to his mouth, because the people were afraid of the oath.
27 As for Jonathan, he had not been listening when his father put the people under an oath, so he stretched out the tip of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it into the honeycomb and drew his hand back to his mouth, and his eyes began to beam.
28 At this one of the people answered and said: Your father solemnly put the people under oath, saying, 'Cursed is the man that eats bread today!' And the people began to get tired.
29 However, Jonathan said: My father has brought ostracism upon the land. See, please, how my eyes have beamed because I tasted this little bit of honey.
30 How much more so if the people had but eaten today from the spoil of their enemies that they found! For now the slaughter upon the Philistines has not been great.
31 And on that day they kept striking down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people got to be very tired.
32 And the people began darting greedily at the spoil and taking sheep and cattle and calves and slaughtering them on the earth, and the people fell to eating along with the blood [they did not bleed them before they cooked them].
33 So they told Saul, saying: Look! The people are sinning against Jehovah by eating along with the blood. At this he said: You have dealt treacherously. First of all, roll a great stone to me.
34 After that Saul said: Scatter among the people, and you must say to them, 'Bring near to me, each one of you, his bull and, each one, his sheep, and you must do the slaughtering in this place and the eating, and you must not sin against Jehovah by eating along with the blood.' Accordingly all the people brought near each one his bull that was in his hand that night and did the slaughtering there.
35 And Saul proceeded to build an altar to Jehovah. With it he started altar building to Jehovah.
36 Later Saul said: Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until the morning lightens up, and let us not leave a single one among them. To this they said: Anything that is good in your eyes do. Then the priest said: Let us approach here to the [true] God.
37 And Saul began to inquire of God: Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel? And he did not answer him on that day.
38 So Saul said: Come near here, all you keymen of the people, and ascertain and see in what way this sin has come to be today.
39 For as Jehovah, who is the Deliverer of Israel, is alive, even if it is in Jonathan my son, yet he will positively die. But there was no one answering him out of all the people.
40 And he went on to say to all Israel: You yourselves will come to be on the one side, and I and Jonathan my son -- we will come to be on the other side. At this the people said to Saul: What is good in your eyes do.
41 And Saul proceeded to say to Jehovah: Oh God of Israel, do give Thummim! Then Jonathan and Saul were taken, and the people themselves went out.
42 Saul now said: Cast lots to decide between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan got to be taken.
43 Then Saul said to Jonathan: Do tell me, What have you done? So Jonathan told him and said: I did for a fact taste a little honey on the tip of the rod that is in my hand. Here I am! Let me die!
45 At this Saul said: Thus may God do and thus may he add to it, if you do not positively die, Jonathan.
45 But the people said to Saul: Is Jonathan to die, who has performed this great salvation in Israel? It is unthinkable! As Jehovah is alive, not as much as a single hair of his head will fall to the earth; for it was with God that he worked this day. With that the people redeemed Jonathan, and he did not die
46 So Saul withdrew from following the Philistines, and the Philistines themselves went to their place (1 Samuel 14).
This is a very interesting and technical account. Jonathon instigates an attack on the Philistines. Saul makes the people swear an unnecessary oath that limits their ability to do God's work. Jonathon inadvertently breaks this oath being unaware that it existed and God blesses him and the attack nonetheless. Saul then attempts to instigate a further attack on the Philistines on the next Hebrew day, but God does not indicate that he will bless Saul's attack.
in truth it was Saul who was to blame by putting his men in an impossible position with an oath that was tantamount to killing them. He took Israel into the oath in order to appear to be as courageous as his son Jonathon, with whom he was competing. He was actually jealous of his own son, and he risked the lives of the whole army in order to enhance his popularity (he could have run for office today on that ticket and won). Now God did not kill those of the sons of Israel who had eaten blood along with their meat. He could have instructed Saul to attack the Philistines and arranged for everyone who had eaten blood to be killed for example. He could have instructed Samuel to speak to Saul and tell him to kill everyone who had eaten blood. He could have sent an angel and struck them all down as he did in the case of 70,000 of those who agreed to be registered by Joab. But God did not punish any of his people, he merely embarrassed Saul by failing to bless him as he had blessed his son.
Now clearly God did not make a mistake or forget about the men who had eaten the blood! So there must have been extenuating circumstances for the sons of Israel who abused blood. Well if you are prosecuting a war which requires you to chase after people and hack them to pieces with swords, then being tired and hungry and therefore weak, is a life threatening problem. So the extenuating circumstances were that the soldiers were in mortal danger. If the Philistines had launched a counter attack on tired hungry and weak Jews, the result could have been fatal. So obviously there are circumstances wherein abusing blood carries no penalty. We deduce from this account that such circumstances are when the abuse of blood is for the purpose of saving or protecting life.
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