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Joe wrote:Hey Lang, what is your interpretation of Ezra's account? What about Judah?
esau was unrepentant, his tree, his family line, he, became a broken cistern. God knew what he would become before he was born. esau never even acknowledged the sin, and seemed incapable of doing so because he also sold his birth-right without a care. Perhaps those who were given over to sin, our people who were lost in pagan/mongrelized nations, had a similar attitude. paganism and idol worship has always had race-mixing elements.
But those who are repentant, like Judah and Ezra, must be preserved by God, their racial purity may be guarded by God.
Lang wrote:Staropramen, I didn't mean to offend you.
Are you saying Esau himself became a broken cistern? That's impossible. You can only be born a broken cistern.
Again Joseph said to his brothers: “Come near to me that I may speak with you. I am Joseph your brother whom ye sold into Egypt. Be not troubled in your heart for all that which you have done; be not angry with yourselves for selling me hither, for Yahweh sent me before you to preserve a posterity (race) in the earth and save our family (tree) alive. It was not you that sent me to this place, but Yahweh; He has made me a father to Pharaoh, an overseer of his house; and ruler throughout Egypt. Two years of the famine are past and there are five years remaining with no earing or harvest. Go now in haste and bring hither my father and all his family with him. Tell him, thus saith thy son Joseph, Yahweh hath made me master of all Egypt; come down to me and tarry not.”
Hey Lang, what is your interpretation of Ezra's account? What about Judah?
Joe wrote:Staropramen saysAre you saying Esau himself became a broken cistern? That's impossible. You can only be born a broken cistern.
I was trying to say that because he was careless he was destined be the father of a broken 'race'. To compare the way Ezra and Judah were repentant and their family line/tree was preserved, while esau's family line was corrupted because of his nature. You are right, I should not have said that he was a broken cistern, I apologise, I just wanted to try and say that his careless nature lead to that, is reflected in that.
I also said that pagans who did not care for God were more likely to given-up to sin, to beget mongrels, as paganism/idolatry leads to race-mixing.
Then I extended this idea to say that God may protect the God-fearing's racial purity, I know Isaac was hurt when esau sinned. But God did preserve Jacob, lead him to a good wife.
This is conjecture, and would require more study on the 'God preserving us' assertion. But you yourself were lead to realizations because of your faith, you could have gone a different path if you didn't fear God. I still have much reading to do, I haven't finished the Bible once yet, I am moving at a snail's pace, constantly checking commentaries, so please understand that I am trying to conform myself to Scripture, but may sometimes make mistake on what Scripture says.
Joe wrote:@Nayto, you mean Lang's links. Clifton has the same view as you, saying that the products of race-mixing would be destroyed. Also I made a mistake, fornication refers to race-mixing, adultery refers to race-mixing and other kinds of sexual sin.
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