January 5, in the year of our Lord, 2022: Violence.

What to do about violence

• Can WE prevent it?
• Who should judge it?

The world of this 21st century A.D. remembers, in a moment of silence and more months of rage, those acts of violence WE THE PEOPLE have brought upon ourselves.

I will return to this application (tomorrow) after today's short take on Scripture from near the beginning of the Bible.

“The end of humanity has come before Me;

for the earth is filled with violence because of people;

and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.”

Genesis 6:13 – The word of the LORD to Noah

Suppose the Perspective of God

1. IF you can imagine the destruction of just the past year through the eyes of the Creator, how would you view it?
2. (Do you know the blessing of Lamech, where today’s Scripture begins?)

“This one will give us comfort from our work and from the hard labor of our hands caused by the ground which the LORD has cursed.”

Genesis 5:29

Genesis 6

Corruption & Wickedness: Increasing Violence brings Judgment!

Each of these could be a Scriptural topic to itself; however today's short take from Scripture will focus ONLY on violence.

¹¹ Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. 

¹² And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for humanity had corrupted its way upon the earth.

Genesis 6:11-12 NASB

Cleansing this wickedness

• Do YOU believe that the LORD God judged the violence of the earth by destroying ALL THE PEOPLE, except Noah and his family?
• Does GOD have a right to judge?
• Will GOD continue to judge violence and evil by punishment of humankind?
• Do you believe that GOD will again destroy the earth, this time by fire?

Violence – חָמָס

Violence is a word with an origin well-known to humankind, though by hearing and seeing it through partisan eyes we may not have recognized its source.

Listen: חָמָס

Listen, then COMMENT with your ANSWER to violence.

VIOLENCE: To be continued January 7, in the year of our Lord, 2022.