Posted by Henry IX on September 22, 1999 at 22:50:42:
In Reply to: Christian-Jewish... posted by Shoshana-Chana Platshek on December 07, 1997 at 20:27:29:
: Shoshana-Chana Platshek
: Jerushalem / Israel Internet:shalom-p@internet-zahav.net
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: I wrote this letter in the days of Sukkot and would have sent it to you if I had had your address. However, I don't want to withhold this letter from you and ask you to accept it even with this retardation.
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: Deuteronomy 32, 31-43 „For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomor’rah; their gs are gs of poison, their clusters are bitter; their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps. Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries? Vengeance is mine, and recompense, fot the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly. For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none remaining, bond or free. Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge, who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you, let them be your protection! ‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and swear, As I live for ever, if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will requite those who hate me, I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh - with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy. „Praise his people, O you nations; for he avenges the blood of his servants, and takes vengeance on his adversaries, and makes expiation for the land of his people."
The note from Shoshana-Chana is really too long to deal with at one go, so pieces will have to do. The first response is to the note as a whole, and to the lengthy quotation from Deuteronomy 32 that starts it. If the As to the message as a whole, it is not very well written, not very well thought out, not very well organized, and not very As just one example, we read, in the third paragraph, "We, GOD's chosen people, are currently celebrating the Feast of the I hope to respond further, but this will do for the present. Henry IX
reader of this response will read Deuteronomy 31 and 32, it will become clear that the substance of chapter 32 is intended
to be a rebuke of Israel for their sin against their God. So it seems strange that a message dwells on the mistreatment
of the Jews by Christians as the leaders of the oppression to use that page in the way it seems to be used. When the
Word of God is used in this way, without, apparently, any recognition of its meaning in context, one then begins to wonder
what else has been overlooked or ignored.
successful in its use of the Word of God. Surely, He deserves to have His word handled carefully and reverently. There
does not appear to have been much effort expended in getting facts correct.
booths = Sukkot in memory of the Children of Israel's journey through the desert after leaving Egypt..." Now a simple
reference to Exodus 13, 20-23 and 40-43 will show us that the place named Sukkot was in Egypt, east of the Red Sea (Yam
Suph), and so that the journey through the wilderness had not yet begun. How could Sukkot be a memory of something that
had not yet occurred?