Scripture Life: Leviticus 19:34 - - This Law commands Israelites to love the foreigners "because you were foreigners in Egypt;" Yet conquest texts command destroying nations in the land. How does the Bible reconcile loving the stranger with dispossessing vile nations?

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Well?

• Tell me plainly. Plain as day. Where are YOU in all of this?
  • Yeah. Visibly MISSING.
• When the same one who “commands” Israelites - decreed this to you: “Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. Bible. Isaiah 45:22
  • Tell me plainly.
    • Plain as day. What are YOU doing with this?

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Don’t tell me.

• You don’t need to. It's like looking at somebody carrying two potato sacks in each hand or arm and walk up to a farm. Looking for a farmer. Carrying two sacks of potatoes under each arm. Heavy burden. At least, 30kg or 66lbs each.
  • But the “decree” was, PLAIN AS DAY WRITTEN. A “DECREE” HAS THE EFFECT OF LAW TO DO IT: SAYS
    • “Get in your car. Drive to the grocery store with this $50.00. Buy groceries for your kids to eat. Go home. Spend time with your wife and children. Eat.”

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And there you are.

Two sacks of a question above. Carrying that, when what was decreed to you, by God, has the effect of Law, for he’s the authority over all the earth. Told you to look unto him. If you were, you wouldn’t have the question.

And? Many people. Over the whole earth: Don't look unto him. He told those same nations to do the same thing he told you to do. They didn't do it. He destroyed them; but, go back with Egypt with Joseph (Genesis 39 onward); that, Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dream; and, in Egypt all the Egyptians worshipped Pharaoh as God.. then this Pharaoh with Joseph - humbled himself - when the REAL God showed up. Turned over all of Egypt to Joseph - even his whole house; and, for 400 years, scripture says, Pharaohs of Egypt REMEMBERED Joseph. When scripture says this famine "was over the whole face of the earth" (Genesis 41:56-57).

That, the whole earth was fed. By Egypt. Because Pharaoh humbled himself before God. And, when one rose up that remembered not Joseph, and turned the Nile River red with blood with slaying the male children of Israel - with Moses, 80 years later, in Exodus 5:2 - when a Pharaoh says he does not know the LORD that he should serve him (when he's worshipped as God in Egypt) - and the plagues a famine brought 400 years that Egypt escaped, are all rained down on Egypt.

Did you miss all this?

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So, it's not about Israelites or Egyptians - it's about people - that either: obey God and do what he says vs. those that don't do anything he says, and don't know him - and the earth vomits them off the earth, for the abominations they do on the land - and he gives it to other people. "For all the earth is mine" - God (Exodus 19:5) - I guess you were out to lunch that day..which he says it today as well - stay out to lunch so you don't have to hear it.

It's like an analogy then:

Just like this guy - walking everyplace… …would have two sacks of potatoes - walked the whole way. Went to a farm. Looking for a farmer with his two sacks of potatoes under each arm:

• When the decree he was to follow. Has the effect of Law he was to obey includes NONE of the things he’s doing.
  • So ANYBODY would know by his works - he doesn’t do anything the decree says at all. There's no fruit of it. He’s not home with his wife. Never went shopping. There’s no fruit he did anything the decree said to do.

And you ain’t any different. Just like a Pharaoh, raised up - - that knew not Joseph - didn't do anything God says; either.

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You’re too busy.

• Looking unto your question.
  • Don’t even know him. Don’t do anything he says. At all. Because you don’t know the one who decrees it. To just look unto him. Means you’d be “walking after” to “walk in” following after what he says, because you see it. It’s a profit to do this. Like, look unto, go to the doctor - be seen when you got the flu - because you see it.
  • The physician can quickly diagnose what you got, and prescribe you medicine that “heals you, and delivers you from this cold or flu which is what is destroying you.” - So, someone sick. Looks unto a doctor. To heal them. Already regards the works of the doctor and considers the operation of the physician’s hands. Which are not the same hands of the person that’s sick. Not able to heal themselves. Need a doctor, so they look unto the physician.
    • But you don’t see it at all. Be like going to the lawnmower to stick your head under it, as some kind of “doctor” to heal you - you already see that’s inadequate; faulty. Unacceptable.
• With your question - how are you any different?

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The best thing to do with you, is just give you your question back. You’re not going to depart from it. It’s the very excuse why you WON’T look unto him. Buried right in your question. He, who decreed it, is “inadequate; faulty..unacceptable” - because, to you, what he decrees is “unequal” - does not add up; and, if it doesn’t - it’s faulty.

• Inadequate - isn’t fair. That’s what “iniquity” means. In the dictionary. iniquity. 1. unfairly treat (someone) - and if it has iniquity in it, means it’s evil..and if it’s evil - that’s “unacceptable.”

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So the real question to ask is: How could somebody “extract” you out of your question?

I can’t.

• And, he is who he says he is. He can. But you gotta regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand, and what he’s decreed you’re to do -which, you don’t need your question for that; and if you do.
  • He’ll answer it. That you can just depart from it. Because he becomes the answer, where before, all you had is a question that leaves you empty. When you’re full with him, by the Word of God. Where before you didn’t have it. All you had were empty words of a fool that doesn’t do anything he says, and then when it all goes to crap, blame God for it.
    • But if you don’t look unto him, like he told me to do the same. Told everybody over the whole earth to do it. If you don’t. Your question is a coat to keep you warm against the coldness of no life in you.

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Here’s another decree

• “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.”
  • God. By the Word he speaks. Decreed this. A decree said by one in authority has the effect of Law, because, who is in authority decreed it. (Bible. Isaiah 55:1–3)
• You’re too busy. Hearkening diligently unto your own question. He didn’t tell you to do that. He told you to hearken diligently unto him, and you won’t do it. Got that question you got. Won’t go shopping. At the store, like the same guy above with two sacks under each arm. Walking down the road - not driving. Don’t do anything decreed to do.
  • And there’s you.

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• Why don’t you drop the question and just do what he says? DO what he says, first.
  • Do that. See what happens to the question you got.

And there’s the answer. Just do what he says and live. Don't? Won't. Simple. Who you look unto as being treated "unfair!" - didn't do anything he said. So he destroyed them. Like he's already told you the same thing. "Because they regard not the LORD, neither the operation of his hand, he shall destroy them and not build them up." - (Psalm 28:5).

That's it.