{"id":52354,"date":"2024-04-18T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/?p=52354"},"modified":"2024-04-18T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T14:47:12","slug":"amalek-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/amalek-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Amalek Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/av1611.com\/verseclick\/verseclick.js\"><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<h1>Amalek Propaganda<\/h1>\n<p>See the video below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The irony is that Amalek propaganda is used by Zionists to justify their genocidal mania and it is used by their opponents to discredit the Old Testament (the Torah, not the Talmud which is Judaism) to portray God as homicidal and morally flawed. Both the Zionists and ther opponents are wrong and both demonstrate errors in thinking and\u00a0 of understanding systematic theology. Firstly it should be obvious even to the theologically obtuse that the Amalekites are not Palestinians and that God has not commanded Jews to kill Palestinians (whether they are Palestinian Christians or Palestinian Muslims). Secondly it should be obvious to Christians that Jesus manifested the character of Yahweh and even bore the Yahweh name to such an extent that he could declare that whoever had seen him (in action) had seen the Father (John 14:9). His mission was one of healing and compassion and preaching the kingdom and the immanence of God not organizing genocide or revolution. When Jesus was confronted with a Canaanite woman crying for mercy (Matt 15:21-28) he did not command his disciples to kill her. He did not say&#8230;.it says in Deut 7:2, <strong>&#8221; &#8230;shew them no mercy&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230;.therefore&#8230;.kill her. No, instead he healed her daughter. In fact, contrary the command in Deuteronomy to kill every Canaanite and not to marry them (make a covenant) the first Canaanite woman that is encountered during Joshua&#8217;s (=Jesus) conquest is SAVED and she marries into the messianic line via the prince of Judah. A prostitute and a Canaanite woman becomes the ancestor of Jesus (Rahab m.Salmon Matt 1:5). People need to rethink their preconceptions. J.A. T Robinson refers to the origins of Christ as &#8220;the scandal of divine love&#8221;.\u00a0 Canaanite is a word derived from acquiring or merchant and merchandise. They were merchants. Jesus condemned the Jews of his day for practicing money lending in the temple, &#8220;make not my Father&#8217;s house an house of merchandise&#8217; (John 2:16 ). No merchants in the temple. No Canaanite in God&#8217;s house. The prophet Hosea called the Jews (Ephraim the Northern Tribes) merchants (Kenan cf. Canaan): <em>He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress<\/em> (Hosea 12:7 ). They had turned God&#8217;s house into <em>a den of thieves<\/em> (Matt 2:13, Jer 7:11). So perhaps the antisemitic trope portraying Jews as the happy merchant (Canaanite) rubbing his hands in anticipation of all the shekels he stands to make is actually a biblical meme (lolz).<\/p>\n<p>As for the injunction concerning Amalek. The name Amalek is etymologised in Rabbinic literature as &#8220;a people who lick blood&#8221; (am lak) but since when do the Rabbis get anything right (lolz). The linguists and etymologists regard the origins as unknown. Is Amalek (\u05e2\u05b2\u05de\u05b8\u05dc\u05b5\u05e7) or \u0102m\u0101l\u0113q a cognate from amal (\u05e2\u05b8\u05de\u05b8\u05dc) and \u1e25\u00ea-leq (\u05d7\u05b5\u0596\u05dc\u05b6\u05e7)? \u0102m\u0101l\u0113q would then be the concatenated compound of the morphmes amal and [\u1e25\u00ea]-leq. The semantic range of amal covers; wearing effort or weariness (hence, worry, whether of body or mind &#8212; grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness). The morpheme \u1e25\u00ea-leq denotes a portion or part (as inheritance often with refrence to land). Note that the Deuteronmist (Deut 25:16-18) makes a point that Amalek attacked the stragglers and those that were feeble and weary during the wilderness wanderings. The ones who fell behind. The Israelites were admonished not to forget this when they recieved their ineritance (portion). Althought the Hebrew passage employs different words for weary and portion the meanining is similar. Amalek would have no portion or inheritance (be blotted out) because they preyed on the weary. Amalek becomes therefore a metaphore for sin as it targets human weakness and whose portion (wages) is death. Note the phrase in Joshua 22:27; &#8220;Ye have (l\u0101-\u1e35em) no part (\u1e25\u00ea-leq) in the LORD&#8221; and the poetic assosciation (reversal and alliteration) of l\u0101-\u1e35em \u1e25\u00ea-leq with amaleq. It certainly resonates phonetically.<\/p>\n<p>The incident where Israel went to battle with Amalek is recorded in Exodus 17 and the war was won when Moses held his outsteched arms up to heaven in imitation of the crucifiction. There was therefore a supernatural element as with the lifting up of the serpent by Moses (Num 21:8-9) when everyone who looked upon it in faith (identified with it) was saved. The Hebrew Gematria for serpent has the same value as the word messiah hence Jesus reference to being lifted up (John 12:32-33). The serpent is archtypical for sin which demonstrates that the motif in Exodus and Numbers is similar, namely sin could only be defeated through crucifying the flesh.<\/p>\n<p>Hence the idea of herem (\u05d7\u05e8\u05dd) from two similar semitic roots \u1e24-R-M meaning either to consecarte (dedicate) or destroy (annihilate). I would argue that there is little difference between the meanings as a sacrifice (cf. burnt offering) that was consecrated to God was completely annihilated or consumed (as in Jesus saying in John 2:17, &#8220;The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up&#8221;). The word is often used in the 6th and 7th chapters of the Book of Joshua, where Jericho came under herem. This meant it had to be completely destroyed, except for &#8220;the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron&#8221; which were to go into &#8220;YHWH&#8217;s treasury&#8221; (Joshua 6:19). However, we noted earlier that Rahab and her family were spared. In Deut 20 six races are subject to \u1e25\u0113rem and yet we find a faithful Hittite serving in David&#8217;s army and a Jebusite who is willing to transfer the ownership of the threshing floor to David. Paul Copan argues that the herem commands were hyperbolic since the passages contain merisms such as &#8220;man and woman&#8221;. [1] The war against Amalek was perpetual until the end of time, because Amalek was <strong>&#8220;the first of nations&#8221;<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre>\"And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever\" (Numbers 24:20).<\/pre>\n<p>It clearly states that it is a &#8220;parable&#8221;(mashal) and Amalek and his king Agag (cf. 1 Sam 15:8) that was<strong> high and exalted<\/strong> (Num 24:7) whose descendant became the Agagite Haman (Esther 3:1) during the Persian period, who was hung on an exceeding <strong>high gallows<\/strong> (Esther 7:9). Gog is derivative from Agag (the king) which becomes the eschatological enemy deceiving &#8220;the nations&#8221;in Rev 20:8. Therefore Agag\/Gog (not Russia) represents the first and the last or the Alpha and Omega of sin, the first nation and the last nations that rebel against God and attempt to destroy the camp of the saints (as Amalek attempted to destroy the camp in the wilderness). During the monarchy Saul failed to destroy Agag as he was commanded to do (1 Sam 15:11) , instead (later in his reign) Saul ended up destroying the priestly camp at Nob by sending an Edomite (progenitor of Amalek) to commit genocide (1 Sam 22:18) .<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I have heard it stated that all the Jewish feasts celebrate genocides (lolz) for example the killing of the Egyptians and their armies at Passover and the death of Haman and 75,000 Persian subjects at Purim but both stories actually celebrate deliverance from genocide and a reversal of fortunes. The tables were turned on the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Much more can be said and I refer the reader to my articles. [2] How then do we understand these Old Testament narratives? Are they to be understood as history or mythology? Are the narratives to be allegorically or literally comprehended? The problem is that they refuse\u00a0 neat categorization. The text employs literary conventions , paronomasia, mythopoetic devices, chiasmus, gematria, rhetoric, history and intertextuality in a rich and seamless kaleidoscope that defies systematization. The reader is forced to either look for deeper meaning or dismiss it all as fiction. Jesus himself always spoke in parables. Any approach must therefore of necessity be poly-valent. Anyone who rejects the God of the Old Testament must reject Jesus\u00a0 and anyone who wants to use the conquest of Canaan as a template for genocide has neither the Father nor the Son.\u00a0 <strong>The only one who has won the War is Jesus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Notes<\/h2>\n<p>[1] Copan, Paul (2011). Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God. Baker Books. pp. 175\u2013176).<\/p>\n<p>[2] Further reading on Agag\/Gog etc <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/resources\/Ezk1.pdf\">An Intertextual Analysis of Ezekiel 38 (Part 1)<\/a> <strong>Part 2:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/resources\/Russia.pdf\">Russia in Ezekiel 38 (Part 2)<\/a> <strong>Part 3:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/Anthology\/Ezek38_stylo.pdf\">Ezekiel 38-39, Stylometric Analysis (Part 3)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><strong>SHOCKER! Guess Who Has Won The War? (19 min)<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SHOCKER! Guess Who Has Won The War?\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MwR3f5lBs6Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amalek Propaganda See the video below&#8230; The irony is that Amalek propaganda is used by Zionists to justify their genocidal mania and it is used by their opponents to discredit the Old Testament (the Torah, not the Talmud which is Judaism) to portray God as homicidal and morally flawed. 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