Sticks and Stones can Break your Bones!
In Bible days they didn’t have cars to make a fast getaway. Not everyone had a chariot, horse or donkey. In other words, if a mob wanted to stone (lynch) you, and you couldn’t run fast, you could consider yourself ‘dead meat’.
1st-Kings 12:18 mentions a guy name Adoram who seems to have heard they were going to stone him and managed to escape. Also, Acts 14:19 mentions one of the times they stoned Paul, thinking that they finished the job, leaving him for dead… but he lived to write about it.
In all incidents it seems apparent that stoning someone was for the sole purpose of killing them.
Today’s Pharisees (ultra-Orthodox Jews) live according to Torah (the 5 books of Moses) and the Talmud (oral law). They will adhere to the Torah as long as it suits their purpose, when it doesn’t they will revert to the Talmud which takes precedence.
But when it comes to stoning they need not go any further than Num 15:32-36
Num 15:32-36
32 And while the children of
33 And they that found him gathering
sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the
congregation.
34 And they put him in ward, because
it was not declared what should be done to him.
35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The
man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation
shall stone him with stones without the camp.
36 And all the
congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died;
as the LORD commanded Moses.
KJV
Could a “people group”, in their minds, still living under the law, totally rejecting the New Testament and everything in it, derive from the above passage that God is commanding them to stone to death anyone breaking the Sabbath? God didn’t say stab them… He said “stone them”. So, obedient and loyal servants will use stones, not guns, knives, baseball bats, hangman nooses, or ovens to carry out the will of God!
And these Jews (the Pharisees) are considered righteous by
the state, government, and police in
I’ve posted this to inform you that throwing stones at people isn’t as innocent as it may seem! Some of you envision children throwing pebbles, NOT! Some of you say “they are acting so childish and need to grow up", NOT!
They are trying to kill (stone to death) those who break the Shabbat.
If you were trying to kill a person with a stone, you would not throw pebbles, you’d throw rocks, the bigger the better!
This is not child’s play! Every one of these incidents should be viewed as attempted murder and assault with deadly weapons! One stone can even kill a giant of a man… ask Goliath!
I’ve been stoned twice by the Pharisees and lived to write about it! Once while standing with Howard (Pastor of the Beersheva congregation) and once along with Steve (evangelist giving out tracts). Both times God provided divine protection, causing every stone to miss!
Another point to consider: If the Pharisees view Israeli Law as man’s law, and the Mosaic Law as God’s law then they may feel that it’s expedient to obey God’s law rather than that of man.
Apparently under the Mosaic Law it was lawful to stone someone to death for breaking the Shabbat… but we who believe in Y’shua (Jesus) are under a higher law, The Spirit of Life.
Rom 8:2-6
2 For the law of the Spirit of life
in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in
that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law
might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh
do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things
of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death;
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
KJV
Never in my life, in all the churches I’ve been in, have I ever heard a preacher preach “Kill anyone you see breaking the Shabbat!” But, here it’s understandable! It’s considered as righteous!
How can a Jewish police officer, brought up in the faith, arrest his Jewish brother for carrying out the will of God? Likewise, how can a Jewish judge, brought up in the faith, prosecute his fellow brother of the same faith?
Eddie (Dec 7, 2008)