God's Way
by televangelist John Hazee
In deciding what to do in all things, we must first ask what God would do. In the wake of terrible acts of terror around the globe, carried out in God’s name, we must ask how God would really like us to act when we find ourselves in conflict with others.
Fortunately, God has answered this question for us, in the Book of Exodus. This book begins with an account of how the Lord dealt with the Egyptians, who were oppressing His people, the Hebrews.
How did God go about dealing with the Egyptians? First he appointed as his agent a man, Moses, who, it is revealed in Exodus 2:12, had already killed an Egyptian with his bare hands; his evasion of judicial punishment for this act can only be attributed to God’s mercy. Moses was the perfect choice for the campaign of biological warfare which God then initiated.
The first step was to give Moses the power to turn all the rivers of Egypt to blood, which he did, making them undrinkable and killing all the fish in them (Exodus 7:20-21). Then God visited an infestation of frogs on the Egyptians (Exodus 8:5-6). At this point the Egyptian pharaoh was ready to grant the Hebrews’ demands, but, as is implied in chapter 8 of Exodus and confirmed in chapter 10, God decided to make the pharaoh change his mind and retract this concession so that God could demonstrate more of his power.
Then began a series of exhibitions by God to Egypt of His mercy and love, namely:
After each of these attacks the pharaoh offered to meet the Hebrews’ demands, but each time, except the last, the Lord made the pharaoh change his mind and retract the offer. In this way the Lord was able to give both the Hebrews and the Egyptians numerous signs of the power of all-conquering Christian love.
- an infestation of lice (Exodus 8:17)
- an infestation of flies (Exodus 8:21)
- a massacre of the Egyptians’ cattle (Exodus 9:3-6)
- a plague of boils (Exodus 9:10-11)
- killer hail and lightning (Exodus 9:23-24)
- a plague of locusts (Exodus 10: 4-6)
- seventy-two consecutive hours of total darkness (Exodus 10:22-23)
- a massacre of all the Egyptians’ first-born children (Exodus 12:29)
God finally allowed the Hebrews to take up the pharaoh’s offer and leave Egypt. However, after the Hebrews were on their way He made the pharaoh change his mind again and send troops after the Hebrews (Exodus 14:4). That gave Him the opportunity for His pièce de résistance, the parting of the Red Sea.
So, friends, when people say to you that we must reply to Muslim terror attacks by exacting an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, you must get them to abandon their feeble ideas of revenge.
Christians don’t have feeble ideas of revenge, they have powerful ideas of revenge! An eye for an eye? No. Every first-born child’s eyes? Yes! By God, yes!
It is the duty of all Christians to spread the gospel of peace and love throughout the world, and God has shown us how to do it. The Muslims will understand what we are doing, because we both worship the same God.
Praise the Lord, friends, and pass the plague virus.
God's Way © John FitzGerald, 2007
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