Here’s a good rule of thumb to go by in order to understand how blood atonement works in Scripture. Burn the following statement into your brain: …ONLY INNOCENT BLOOD CAN ATONE FOR SIN. There are a lot of Bible teachers out there who teach that during Bible times when a murderer was executed for his […]

“However, if someone hates his fellow member of the community, lies in wait for him, attacks him, strikes him a death blow, and then flees into one of these cities; then the leaders of his own town are to send and bring him back from there and hand him over to the next-of-kin avenger, to […]

“An example would be if a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood and takes a stroke with the axe to fell a tree, but the head of the axe flies off the handle, hits his neighbor and kills him. Then he is to flee to one of these cities and […]

“Divide the territory of your land, which Adonai your God is having you inherit, into three parts; and prepare the roads, so that any killer can flee to these cities.  The killer who will live if he flees there is someone who has killed his fellow member of the community by mistake, who did not […]

Yesterday I made it clear that a true Holy War is a battle that the Lord Himself starts and finishes according to His Will. Contrary to popular opinion, it is not about spreading religion. Although proselytizing is so central Christianity, it was not practiced by Israel. In fact, to this day Judaism doesn’t actively seek […]