FAMILIES PERSECUTED

By Dr. Hoyt W. Allen, Jr

    Concerning the question about families being persecuted due to a husband/father’s behavior, - see Daniel 6:24, see also Joshua 7:24.

    The reason for the family being slain was that they were partakers of the husband/father’s sin (see Deut. 24:16; Ezek. 18:20, which teaches that a “Just God” does not do wrongly). In Joshua 7:25, Achan was stoned first so that his family and all Israel could see the result of his sin, then his family was stoned and burned. God demands justice! Of course, there are times when families get caught in the midst of abusiveness which they did not deserve, but this is not God’s will!

    God has a “Foreknowledge” of who is “For Real” or on His side and who is not. He knew in the days of Noah (Genesis 6-9) that the multitudes were not going to repent, due to His foreknowledge, thus that is why He permitted them (even children) to all drown. When Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, God did not compel him to do so, but had a foreknowledge of this event, even before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4,5,11). We all have a ”Free-Will” (II Peter 3:9) and must choose God or punishment awaits us here and in the here-after.

    I don’t like gruesome details of deaths like beheading of Goliath (I Sam. 17:48-51) or the crucifying of Jesus (Matt. 27), but it is a fact in history’s book, just as is WWII and Hitler’s extermination of six million Jews in ovens (see our article on “Tortures of Christians).

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