TOM II - Chapter 3 - A Land Set Apart


I came across this passage and it got me thinking again, is every person's name written in the Lamb's Book of Life at birth or is it believing parents and their children in the case that children can till opt out by choosing to not love Yahweh? Or is this a matter of all are called but few are chosen? How does the Book of Life fit in with the Church's theory of the Age of Accountability? From Yada's writings in YY we find that if children of unbelievers die they simply pass from life to eternal death, rather than being raised to life.

The original verse cited (Shemoth 32:33 - 35) was written about people who had already decided to be a part of Yahowah's family. There were the mixed multitude that chose to leave Mitsrayim, but fell quickly back into the pagan practices they learned back there in bondage. It seems the only people who "born" with their name recorded in the Book of Life are those that are born to parents who are already in relationship with Yahowah, or children being raised according to the covenant relationship (the sign being the circumcision of the sons).

One thing I have to remind myself of constantly is that this is about a relationship, not so much about eternity. Death is not "punishment" for man just as it is not "punishment" for animals. Eternal life with Yahowah is a gift, while punishment is reserved for those that are adversaries of Yahowah. Getting rid of the concept of people either going to heaven or burning in hell was the most freeing thing I left from religion. Understanding that "innocent" babies weren't going to be burning in torment for eternity because they were born to parents that didn't know Yahowah definitely helped my mind a lot.

Yes, abortion is wrong, evil, and vile. So is raising a child in religion - they both result in the same outcome for the child. The difference is a child raised in religion has a shot at finding Yahowah, but it isn't a good shot. Yahowah let's us know this.

The question comes with when does a child being raised within the covenant "choose" to continue to follow Yahowah, or leave the family relationship. I don't know that this is addressed, I haven't seen a definite idea of their being a particular "age" at which this decision must be made. What I do know is that relationship is a choice. What I feel is that if my children were to choose to leave this covenant relationship, I feel it would be a direct result of me not following Yahowah's advice (His torah) in how I raise them. My kids won't be lured away by the trappings of pagan worship (Christmas trees and Easter bunnies) unless I go and flirt with those pagan customs, thus wetting their appetites. What seems to be the consistent thing that turned the hearts of the children of Israel away from Yahowah was the desire for pagan worship - those customs and practices that Yahowah despises. In fact, Yahowah's consistent insistence on not performing pagan customs and practices in His face seem to really be about protecting our children. And it goes back to this Shemoth/Exodus verse - what gets you blotted out is the thing Yahowah tries hard to protect us from. Again showing what a loving Father He is.

Instillation abortion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instillation_abortion

http://www.mccl.org/sali...cruel-and-dangerous.html

http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/ASMF/asmf9.html

http://realchoice.0catch...ary/weekly/aa063000a.htm


This procedure essentially chemically burns the fetus in the womb (belly), therefore offering their offspring to Molek.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch



Lev 18:21 ‘And do not give any of your offspring to pass through to Moleḵ. And do not profane the Name of your Elohim. I am יהוה.

Lev 20:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 20:2 “Say to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Any man of the children of Yisra’ĕl, or of the strangers who sojourn in Yisra’ĕl, who gives any of his offspring to Moleḵ, shall certainly be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Lev 20:3 ‘And I, I shall set My face against that man, and shall cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given of his offspring to Moleḵ, so as to defile My set-apart place and to profane My set-apart Name.
Lev 20:4 ‘And if the people of the land at all hide their eyes from the man, as he gives any of his offspring to Moleḵ, and they do not kill him,
Lev 20:5 then I shall set My face against that man and against his clan, and shall cut him off – and all who go whoring after him, even go whoring after Moleḵ – from the midst of their people.
Lev 20:6 ‘And the being who turns to mediums, and to spiritists, to go whoring after them, I shall set My face against that being and cut him off from the midst of his people.
Lev 20:7 ‘And you shall set yourselves apart, and shall be set-apart, for I am יהוה your Elohim,

2Ki 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, so that no man could make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Moleḵ.

Jer 32:35 “And they built the high places of Baʽal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and their daughters to Moleḵ, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My heart, that they should do this abomination, to make Yehuḏah sin.

Shalom