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All Bible quotes are from the Douay-Catholic Bible

No matter, the rain came down, and the water began to rise. God had made the decision to end His creation, except for one man and his family. To prepare them for survival,

There were probably hundreds of thousands of humans on the earth at this point, but the only count I might point to would be Cain's city, Henoch. In the Old
Testament the city of Hai contained 12,000 people.
12,000 died.

Long after the flood, when man had had time to repopulate the earth, God must have had time on His hands. He hadn't created the nation of Israel yet, so the cities of Sodom and Gomorra caught His attention. They were so corrupt in His eyes that He decided to destroy them. But either He didn't discriminate, or even the children were corrupt, because He destroyed everything.

Early in the morning Abraham,

God wiped two cities and all the inhabitants, men, women, and children, from the face of the earth! Oh, yes. I"m sure they were very sinful, even the little children. I have a question for you. What power, what force, what unimaginable heat, was created by this God that left the whole region with

When you have pondered that question for a moment, I have another. How was the heat to obliterate two cities generated? I am not one to believe something is magically created from nothing. On this earth, deep cold would be the rule if our atmosphere did not capture and hold the heat from the sun. But such intense, localized heat would have to be generated. Man can create that kind of heat
today using atomic energy. How did God do it? Is man just now catching up to the technology this God used four thousand years ago?

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In (Genesis 8:21) God said,

He didn't destroy the whole earth again but in (Genesis 19:24) He poured sulphur and fire on Sodom and Gomorra and

24,000 died.

Illicit sex was obviously a part of the reason God destroyed Sodom and Gomorra. But the next passage had God micro-managing the sex lives of two brothers. It states that Her was wicked, so God killed him.

Onan wasn't wicked, but he

If only this much wickedness got Onan killed, how wicked was his brother Her? Later in the Bible, ( Leviticus 18:6 ) God absolutely ruled against having sex with a close relative, but here Onan died for not performing the act properly. God was really serious about raising the population numbers at this time in history.
All the women had to be pregnant all the time!
2 died.

Then God went from micro-managing two brothers sex lives, to being afraid to be seen. Only Moses and Aaron were allowed up the mountain to see God.

First, it is interesting that God used the words "break through" as though he feared that they would break through and see him. It is also interesting to me that He would, if seen, vent his anger, even on His holy priests.

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Being afraid to be seen was not the only sudden change in this God. He began to make terrible threats. The threats in this passage are the most jealous, hateful, vindictive, threats in the whole Bible.

This God does not let innocent children off at all. He annihilated the children of Sodom and Gomorra, and now He damns the innocent children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, of those that hate Him.


While Moses was on mount Sinai, Aaron made a golden calf to replace Israel's missing God. And God, in a fit of anger, showed every intention of exterminating three million people.

But Moses reminded God that the Egyptians might say,

With that little reminder, Moses saved the day. Why would the most powerful God on this earth care what the Egyptians might say?


The next move in the golden calf fiasco came from Moses. He was embarrassed because his foes would be scornful when they heard about the idol and knew Aaron had,

Moses gave the horrendous order to the Levites,

Moses obviously took matters in his own hands here, but whether he did,
or God actually told him to command the Levites to kill their own doesn't matter. It was done in the name of God, and He didn't stop it, so He gets the credit! On this day, Jews killed Jews while their God watched.
3,000 died.

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After Moses ordered the Levites to slaughter three thousand of their own people, he went to God to beg forgiveness for his people. Israel's God had always been with them, but this time He told Moses He wasn't going any further with them! He told Moses an angel would go with them to the land of milk and honey. Then He said,

God's anger did not cool quickly. He was still ready to obliterate three million human beings from the face of the earth.


I don't understand how this passage ever made it into the Bible. And I certainly cannot believe people that read it, can believe itwithout going into total denial. I cannot find one place in the Old Testament that is anything but control, manipulation, anger, and hatefulness. How can God say,

Let me rephrase the previous statement. I am a God that is merciful, gracious, patient, kind, and I strictly observe and stay faithful to my promises, but ......you get out of line and your great grandchildren will suffer for it! Still another threat to punish the grandchildren, to the fourth generation when they are born!


Everything had to be just so for the God of the Jews. If He didn't authorize even the fire you used, you could suffer His anger.

God gave specific instructions in the Old Testament on every facet of life, except how not to make profane fire.
2 died.

Edited: mousetrails on 25th Jun, 2008 - 6:53am

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In the 26th chapter of Leviticus, God lists all the rewards he will bestow on Israel if they observe all his commandments. Rain at the proper time, food in abundance, peace in the land, no ravenous beasts, no war, and he would be their God. Then in the next breath, He tells them again what will happen if they disobey. It is the
longest, ugliest, most vindictive, hateful, thorough threat in the Bible. Please bear with me, you"ll never hear this in church!

Complete and utter devastation from a God the Jews didn't even ask for. Israel couldn't have invented an angrier God. No wonder they worship Him in fear to this day.

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In this passage God used a different way to show his anger.

He ordered three million people across a hot dry desert, and punished
them when they complained!


Their God led them across a desert without thinking first about food and water. In (Numbers 11:14) He fed them manna until,

Family after family grieved aloud,

So He told Moses to tell the people,

Until it comes out your very nostrils? What happened to,

If the people had known they would be treated to so much quail it would come out of their noses, they probably wouldn't have left Egypt.


So God sent a wind, and blew quail into and around the camp for a days journey in all directions.

God fed the Israelites manna until they begged for fish and fruit and vegetables. Then he sent them quail and killed the people who collected too much. As they say in church to this day, Lord have mercy!

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When Israel finally arrived at the promised land, spies went in and came back saying the people there were fierce giants that lived in fortified towns. Because they were afraid, they said,

Some
of the people wanted to pick another leader and go back to Egypt. This made God very angry.

Again He threatened to wipe out over three million people. And although he offered to make a new nation out of Moses, Moses saved the day by reminding God again what the Egyptians might say if they heard of it. We will never know, but how interesting it would be to know why He would care.


After God's threat to wipe out Israel, His temper cooled just a little. But His next threat, He carried out to the letter, negating every promise He made to every man He raised up to lead the Jews. Time, after time, after time, He promised His appointed leaders, "I will GIVE you a land of milk and honey." Now, in obvious, heated, anger, He threw Himself the king of all temper fits, and said,

Then He proceeded to make it painfully clear what the consequences were for not invading Chanaan, and driving the present inhabitants away from their land and their homes.

The word He used so often was GIVE. He said He would GIVE Israel a land of milk and honey. They were not trained fighters. They did not expect to have to fight for the land He was GIVING them, so they wimped out. In a fit of anger, He called them wicked, conspiring, criminals, that were not worthy of His oaths and promises, and turned them back into the desert to die to the last man.

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God had several ways to punish Israel for getting out of line. When they offended Him, one of his favorites was to ignore them, until they were in such misery they cried out. God appointed Aod to lead them to victory over King Eglon. Peace reigned for eighty years. But when Aod died,

When next they offended God, their leader was Samgar, and when they cried out
again, He sent the prophetess Debora. In trouble, out of trouble, and back in. It is a pattern they continued generation after generation.


Forty years after Debora rescued them, they repeated the cycle again.

If Israel didn't follow their God, there was always some king ready to do God's dirty work. All He had to do to punish them, was turn His back!


Has it become evident to you, that the Jews didn't want to follow this God? In this passage, they forgot the path He had pointed out, and strayed again.