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Don't tell me the Lord doesn't have a sense of humor!

1 Samuel 5:6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon those of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and smote them with hemorrhoids in Ashdod and within all their borders.
 
Yeah... Hosea 1:2

I still think of the one where God told a prophet, I don't remember which, where God told him to take a harlot for his wife.

And Hosea 3:1

And when she'd cheat on him with other men, to take her back.

It's not the same prophet, this one is Ezekiel

It's the same prophet that God had him do stuff like dig through the wall of his house and take his stuff out, because that's what was gonna happen to Israel being taken captive.
Ezekiel 12:5

Really this passages are just too controversial. Thanks for pointing that out!
 
[h=1]2 Kings 2:23-24King James Version (KJV)[/h][FONT=&quot]23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

A bit harsh for a simple name calling LOL.[/FONT]

It's much more than name calling. Read all the context & ask the obvious questions.

The majority of 'controversy' is lack of understanding, and probably the reminder is poor translation
 
Ezekiel 23:20 (NIV)

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

In God's Word Jesus is referred to as the Bridegroom and His Church and people as the Bride. (Matt 25:1-13).

A WOMEN in God's Word represents those of His people who are following God or not following God

• WOMAN, PURE = True Church (Jeremiah 6:2; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:23-27)
• WOMAN, CORRUPT = Apostate church (Ezk 16:15-58; 23:2-21; Hos. 2:5; 3:1; Rev. 14:4)
• WOMAN HARLOT = Apostate church/religion (Eze 23 1:49; Isaiah 1:21-27; Jeremiah 3:1-3; 6-9)

Eze 23
In Ezekiel 23, there was two sisters. Ones name was Aholah (H170; Samaria; Idolatry) the elderH1419, and Aholibah (H172 Symbolic name for Judah) her younger sister. God's people were being led into Idolatry by the Samaritans. Idolatry and worshiping other God's is likened to Adultery concerning God and His people throughout His Word. For those professing to follow God, harlotry represents unfaithfulness to God, or not following God's Word and sinning against Him.

More examples below

Hosea 5:4
Their deeds will not allow them To return to their God. For a spirit of harlotry is within them, And they do not know the LORD.

Hosea 4:12 My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner's wand informs them; For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, And they have played the harlot, departing from their God.

Jeremiah 13:27 "As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings, The lewdness of your prostitution On the hills in the field, I have seen your abominations Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?"

2 Kings 9:22 When Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" And he answered, "What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?"

Psalm 106:39 Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.

Ezekiel 23:3-19 and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled. "Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah. "Oholah played the harlot while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors, read more.

Hosea 4:15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, Do not let Judah become guilty; Also do not go to Gilgal, Or go up to Beth-aven And take the oath: "As the LORD lives!"

Hosea 9:1 Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations! For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved harlots' earnings on every threshing floor.

Isaiah 1:21 How the faithful city has become a harlot, She who was full of justice! Righteousness once lodged in her, But now murderers.

Jeremiah 2:20 "For long ago I broke your yoke And tore off your bonds; But you said, 'I will not serve!' For on every high hill And under every green tree You have lain down as a harlot.

Jeremiah 3:6 Then the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.

Jeremiah 3:8
"And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.

2 Chronicles 21:11 Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot and led Judah astray.

2 Chronicles 21:13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot as the house of Ahab played the harlot, and you have also killed your brothers, your own family, who were better than you,

Numbers 15:39 "It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot,

Jeremiah 3:2 "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been violated? By the roads you have sat for them Like an Arab in the desert, And you have polluted a land With your harlotry and with your wickedness.

Jeremiah 13:22 "If you say in your heart, 'Why have these things happened to me?' Because of the magnitude of your iniquity Your skirts have been removed And your heels have been exposed.

Ezekiel 23:11 "Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister.

Ezekiel 23:8 "She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

Ezekiel 23:14 "So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

Ezekiel 23:35 "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.'"

Ezekiel 23:29 'They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.

Ezekiel 43:7 He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel forever And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry and by the corpses of their kings when they die,

Hosea 6:10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.

Hosea 5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot, Israel has defiled itself.

Ezekiel 23:30 'These things will be done to you because you have played the harlot with the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols.

Ezekiel 23:17
"The Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, she became disgusted with them.

Ezekiel 23:19 "Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:27
'Thus I will make your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.'

Ezekiel 43:9
"Now let them put away their harlotry and the corpses of their kings far from Me; and I will dwell among them forever.

Hope this helps

God bless
 
I am very intrigued, how exactly does Genesis 1:1 prove that the earth is flat? I fail to see it.

The issue is people not believing God. God created the Earth, time, light and heaven, before He created the Sun. You either believe Him or you don't. If you don't then stop acting like you're above people who do, that's the general message I'm getting at. The heliocentric model is wrong because it doesn't fit scripture.
 
The issue is people not believing God. God created the Earth, time, light and heaven, before He created the Sun. You either believe Him or you don't. If you don't then stop acting like you're above people who do, that's the general message I'm getting at. The heliocentric model is wrong because it doesn't fit scripture.

I am not a scientist so I have no idea what a heliocentric model is, but I agree with the order that God created things in Genesis, if you are saying I do not?
 
I am not a scientist so I have no idea what a heliocentric model is, but I agree with the order that God created things in Genesis, if you are saying I do not?

No, mockers and scoffers like Posthuman keep giving likes to people promoting anti-biblical beliefs, and insinuating that I worship a flat earth or that it's my religion. The people in the other thread will do anything to stick to their belief in science and the atheist world view that they are replacing words in scripture to make it fit.

If God says something, it's true. It's not an opportunity to change the words to make godless people happy.
 
Don't tell me the Lord doesn't have a sense of humor!

1 Samuel 5:6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon those of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and smote them with hemorrhoids in Ashdod and within all their borders.
Oh, it gets better!
From chapter 6:

1 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
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11 And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
 
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Psalm 137:9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

:o:cool:
 
1 Samuel 28:7-19

Saul then said to his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I can go and consult her.” His servants replied, “There is a woman at En-dor who is a medium.” Saul disguised himself by putting on different clothes and set out with two of his men. They came to the woman at night, and Saul said, “Consult a spirit for me. Bring up for me the one I tell you.”

But the woman said to him, “You surely know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why are you setting a trap for me to get me killed?” Then Saul swore to her by the Lord: “As surely as the Lord lives, nothing bad will happen to you because of this.”

“Who is it that you want me to bring up for you?” the woman asked. “Bring up Samuel for me,” he answered. When the woman saw Samuel, she screamed, and then she asked Saul, “Why did you deceive me? You are Saul!” But the king said to her, “Don’t be afraid. What do you see?”

“I see a spirit form coming up out of the earth,” the woman answered. Then Saul asked her, “What does he look like?” “An old man is coming up,” she replied. “He’s wearing a robe.” Then Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed his face to the ground and paid homage. “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Samuel asked Saul.

“I’m in serious trouble,” replied Saul. “The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He doesn’t answer me anymore, either through the prophets or in dreams. So I’ve called on you to tell me what I should do.” Samuel answered, “Since the Lord has turned away from you and has become your enemy, why are you asking me?

The Lord has done exactly what He said through me: The Lord has torn the kingship out of your hand and given it to your neighbor David. You did not obey the Lord and did not carry out His burning anger against Amalek; therefore the Lord has done this to you today. The Lord will also hand Israel over to the Philistines along with you. Tomorrow you and your sons will be with me, and the Lord will hand Israel’s army over to the Philistines.”
 
Most of us have read the Bible cover to cover, with deeper understanding; but there are some passages in the Bible that still amaze or baffles me.

For example: 2 Kings 3:26-27New International Version (NIV)

26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle had gone against him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they failed.

27 Then he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him as a sacrifice on the city wall. The fury against Israel was great; they withdrew and returned to their own land.

Post yours below:

Israel was not into human sacrifice. When the king of Moab sacrificed his son Israel got angry and went home.
 
A WOMEN in God's Word represents those of His people
who are following God or not following God

also A Women in God's Word represents A church


like Revelation 12:1 a woman clothed with the sun, is not the same
as the great false counter church reviled in rev 17, that is not of God.
 
Ezekiel 23:20 (NIV)

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
This is really warped. She saw pictures, on the walls, of the sons of Bavel.(The sons of Babel) They were nephilim. Part man and part something else. and she lusted after them......
 
2 Kings 2:23-24King James Version (KJV)

23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

A bit harsh for a simple name calling LOL.

What should God have done? They were mocking a man of God. And thus they were mocking God as well