The Photo-Drama of Creation - The Herald

The Fate of the Amalekites
King Saul, never seemed to enter into the spirit of
the Lord's commands. He always manifested selfwill;
even when given special directions through the
Prophet Samuel, he deviated and was reproved.
One failure of King Saul was when called upon to slaughter
the Amalekites and drive them out, he did not fully obey. He
spared the king, etc. Many have thought it strange that God
would give such commands as this and others similar. The
most satisfactory explanation is that the whole world is under
the death sentence, and that it makes very little difference
whether they die by pestilence, famine, or sword. The wickedness
of the Amalekites is declared to have come to its full, just
as with the Sodomites. The decree was extermination.
Had the slaughtered people, as we once thought, gone to
eternal torment, the matter would have been most horrible.
However, the entire aspect is changed when we recognize that
God's provision for the Amalekites as for the Sodomites is a
resurrection, secured by Christ's death. As we have already
seen, the Sodomites are to have the privilege of returning to
"their former estate," and to human perfection. So all who
do not receive a knowledge of God in the present life are to
have that opportunity during Messiah's Reign.
Another illustration along this line is that of Sennacherib's
army, which was smitten by the angel of the Lord in one night,
probably by a sand-storm.--2 Kings 19:35,36.
Gross misconceptions of God's character and the Bible
teachings accumulated during the Dark Ages, when the Bible
was not in existence so far as the masses were concerned.
Bibles were very expensive and possessed only by the few;
besides, very few could read. They did not know that the
worship of an eternal torment deity is the worship of Moloch,
which God specially condemned. The dawning light of a New
Age shows us God's character of love and illuminates the Bible,
making its teachings most reasonable.--Proverbs 4:18.
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