I have been reflecting upon what I had written this past week, and I discovered something I had not thought of before. Before Boaz met Ruth, he was ruthless!
From I Samuel 4-6:
1. The wife of Phinehas was pregnant and about the time that she learned of her husband and father-in-laws deaths, she gave birth to a son. She named him Ichabod and died shortly afterwards. Is it me, or isn't it strange that she even bothered to name him at all. I mean, if I am dying, I probably would not be too concerned with naming anyone. If I were in that situation, my child would probably be named "Aaaaauugh".
2. In Chapter 5 we may discover possibly where a formerly popular saying might have come from. The idol Dagon was an idol of the Philistines. They put the ark of God into the temple of Dagon, and then the next morning they found Dagon laying face down in front of it. After the second night, they found the idol toppled again, this time with his head and hands broken off and lying on the threshold. I am guessing that he was not a light figure to re-position. I can just hear the priests calling all to help: "The Dagon idol has fallen over again!" I wonder if he was ever implicated in cotton-picking later, or if his dad got burned. (That dad-burned, cotton-picking Dagon idol!)
3. It is amazing to see how the ark of God really made believers of the Philistines. They did not even worship God, yet they were terrified of having it in their presence because it might harm them OR THEIR GOD! Their actions indicated God existed even though they did not worship Him or choose to trust in Him. Now we have people who claim to believe in Him and go to church, and yet their actions do not indicate that God even exists. I am also amazed at the great wisdom that the Philistine priests and diviners had. They instructed the Philistines to offer a guilt offering and not to harden their hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did.
4. I wonder what the seventy at Beth Shemesh died of. I mean, was it tumors again, or some other oddity. Not that it really matters, because in reality they died by incurring the Lord's wrath.
2 comments:
I was doing research on Dagon and ran into your blog. I just wanted to tell you it was great. I needed a couple of laughs in the middle of all this research. Thank you for your insight and your humor.
God bless!
Hmmm, interesting insight. I have been reading that same chapter this week and also realised how the Philistines revered God though they did noit worship HIM, they had heard of Him and believed He had all the might because they had seen it first hand with their idol dagon. We, as Christians, have not only read or heard but have also witnessed countless miracles; so what makes us (me includede) doubt sometimes, i really wonder.
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