The Old Testament - Mighty Men of Valour
The Bible is full of mysteries. King David and the mighty men of valour is another. The Old Testament has many references to the mighty men of valour. In many cases the scriptures relate the number of the men of valour in conjunction with Ephraim
and the other tribes of Israel. There is also a possibility that the
mighty men of valour were not originally from Israel. as far as the
words go their names tend to be closely associated with name of God
rather than the LORD.It's complicated!
Here are a couple of sciptural examples.
1CHONICLES 26,32
And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.
2 CHRONICLES 32,21
And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
The Bible is a difficult book to understand. People tend to mix and match the word LORD with God and believe that they are interchangeable. According to the Old Testament that isn't so. Why did the LORD send an angel to cut off the mighty men of valour? Ask why the LORD and Satan teamed up against Job... My guess is because they were jealous and resentful. The motto of the men of valour is "To do good, not to do evil". Maybe that is why they were to speak for God, because God is good!
Anyone that thinks that they understand the Bible and all it's mysteries is kidding themselves. Much of the book is incomprehensible. Yet every day people get up and quote scriptures without having any idea dea what the real words say. How many people have been saved by the Bible? No one is saved by a book... Only One saves and that One is God!
Books have been used throughout history to polarize people, religions and nations. Christianity alone has how many denominations? In the Thousands! and all from four Gospels. How many wars have been fought over religion? How many people have been condemned by words from the page of a book? From this very book came the justification to crucifying Christ.
There will a great release of revelation concerning the Bible, God, the Almighty, the LORD and a host of other names from the Bible and the Quran in this time.
Many will find out that God is far better than they ever thought, and smarter too!
More will be revealed, soon.
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