Hansel and Gretel – 3

IF you have NOT already taken time to watch the Hosea Movie of a previous post, it is related to this series and I recommend it. Watch it as a family, if possible (80 min.); especially your teens.

Roger Harned

DIVORCE! in the Bible is more a picture of our broken relationship with God, than a contemporary image of broken vows between broken people with broken hopes and broken families.

The  truth of christian divorce remains a picture of our broken relationships with God.

HANSEL & GRETEL – Chapter 3

1 Samuel 15:23 KJV

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Saul was anointed by Samuel, God’s Prophet and Priest as King over God’s own family.

How would you feel if once you were chosen by God and assumed that you would always be over God’s family; but then the Lord reveals: God rejects you?

God’s judgment compares rebellion to witchcraft.  (Children know instinctively that the witch in Hansel and Gretel is evil.)

The worldly reveling of Halloween month,  ‘natural’ cures, historic abuses and over-exaggerated images from our clouded past taint our Biblical understanding of witchcraft.

Witchcraft – pharmakeia –

 “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft…”

“From the beginning it was not so…”

Dearly beloved christian wife

(any of a Christian husband),

You know and quote well John 3:16;

do you also quote Genesis 3:16?

To the woman he said,
“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
in pain you shall bring forth children.
Your desire shall be for your husband,
and he shall rule over you.”

In the beginning: rebellion.

In the end times: rebellion.

Yet our story of Hansel and Gretel does not have to follow a trail of breadcrumbs to see revelation of God’s love.

To be continued…