A Few Good, Devoted, Spirit-Filled, Zealous Men of God
Elijah proved he was a “man of God” not by loving people, but incinerating them. Likewise, Jehu proved his devotion to the LORD not through acts of kindness, but mass murder. Phinehas’ zealous killing didn’t anger God, but pleased him. Each time “the Spirit of the LORD” came upon Samson, he didn’t become more generous, but more violent, spilling more and more blood. And no hands were more blood-stained than those of our bible “heroes” Moses and David, the former ordering untold numbers of helpless, captured little boys and their mothers to be systematically murdered, and the latter, said to be a man after God’s own heart who cut the hands, feet, and heads off of people and slaughtered tens of thousands in the name of the LORD.
Yet countless Christians—either oblivious to the mind-numbing atrocities in their “holy” scriptures, or perhaps because of them—pray for such godly men to rise up and lead our country. In The Bible Unmasked, Joseph Lewis writes, “When ministers plead for another David perhaps they want another Savage Commander. Surely the proper place for the Bible is in the War Colleges of belligerent nations...Killing and murder are related with so little compunction that a continued reading of the Bible cannot help but make one callous to the value of human life. No wonder the Christian countries at war use the Bible as the basis of their national religion and give each soldier a copy while engaged in battle.”
2K 1:10-12, 2K 10:16-17, Nu 25:1-13, Jg 14:6-16:30, Nu 31:17, 1 S 18:6-9
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