Yes, boys and girls... This actually happened!
This 46 year old Saudi Millionaire, wakes up in the middle
of the night (after having sex with the woman in his bedroom), offers to give a
young 18 year old girl sleeping on his couch, a t-shirt to sleep in or provide
a cab for her to get home (he doesn't quite remember which), but in
the process of performing his act of gallantry, stumbles, falls,
and by accident, his erected penis, of all places, lands inside her
vagina!
What's
even more astounding is that he's acquitted in British court. (The
article that I got this story from, a reliable source, which I nevertheless,
don't care to link, says that the Judge, during the trial, went off with the
defendant behind the courtroom and had a private conversation with him. Personally,
I wonder what happened behind closed doors.)
It's
a shame that Sharia law isn't already in place in England. That way no
one would have ever had to go through this bothersome, expensive and
worthless trial. Our Saudi Millionaire never would have had to
endure this embarrassment, because the testimony of the young girl never would
have carried any weight. Nor would his actions have actually
been seen as a crime. The girl had been drinking. She wasn't
wearing a hijab (a Muslim woman’s head covering), or better yet, a burka.
The perpetrator could have been honest and simply said that his victim, by
virtue of her unconcealed beauty, aroused the lust in him, and being a man, he
simply did what men do and raped her. Now, in light of the reality that, the
girl had been doing all the wrong things, she deserves to be stoned to
death. And, of course, a hole in the ground would have been ready and
waiting to place her where only her head would be exposed above
ground so that she could judiciously receive her punishment for having
aroused the lusts of her rapist.
What
happened behind closed doors between the judge and the defendant? One
could only speculate. But this is truly one instance where one has to
question whether justice has, indeed been served. It is easy, in this
case, to judge the situation. Although I was not there, I'm pretty
confident that the defendant either slipped the judge a couple of Euros or
threatened to have him beheaded if the trial didn't go his way. It's nice
to have power isn't it? And it's not nice if you don't have power.
Wouldn't you agree?
Allow
me, if you will, to contrast the judicial system associated with the true story
I just recounted to you, with a different sort of judicial system... the
Law of Moses, to which, it seems, all forms of Christianity have shown disdain
as, presumably, a refutation of the grace of God which is to be seen solely
through Jesus nowadays.
What
most Christians don't quite seem to understand is that the Mosaic Law was never
intended as part of a religion, but as a necessary Constitution by which a
group of people, a nation as it were, could peaceably and morally be
governed. This system was intended to ensure that justice would truly be
meted out fairly. The rich Saudi Millionaire would be treated with the
same consideration as the poor (and admittedly foolish) 18 year old
girl. There would be no way that our defendant could "grease the
palms" of the judge.
The
old adage "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is
not just a clever saying, it's an axiom. Judges have a lot of power and
if there is nothing to keep it in check, they can become corrupted and
pervert justice. One of the goals of the Mosaic Law was to deprive judges
of the perception that they had absolute power.
Central
to the Mosaic Law was a sacrificial system. Animals were burned on an
altar to remind the Children of Israel that there was a God to whom one was
responsible for one's thoughts, attitudes, words and actions. Once a year
the blood of a bull and the blood of a goat were brought into a pitch black,
unlit room called the "Holy of Holies" along with hot, burning coals
of incense the cloud from which permeated every corner of the room. The
blood was sprinkled onto a kapporeth (often translated mercy seat) and seven
drops of the blood were placed in front of the kapporeth. The kapporeth
was made of pure gold and covered a golden casing which contained three
items. The first item was a rod of an almond branch which miraculously
budded in spite of the reality that it had been pruned off of its source, and
testified to the authenticity of the priesthood of only one particular
individual who had been designated to be priest by God... a man by
the name of Aaron. The second item was a golden jar of manna... a
food substance that, miraculously remained fresh and preserved inside the ark
and which had fallen from the sky in order to feed the children of Israel while
they wandered forty years in the wilderness. The third item was the two
stone tablets of the law of God... the Ten Commandments. The first three commandments were to reflect
man's relationship to God and the last seven commandments were to reflect men's
relationships to one another.
The
blood of the animals indicated that something or someone had to die because of
the offenses of the people who invariably failed to keep the law that was
inside that arc. Seated upon the kapporeth sat the invisible, all
knowing, all seeing creator and ultimate judge of the universe who sees
and knows the hearts, thoughts, deeds, and attitudes of all men throughout
time. And of course, this God is not just limited to a little vacant
room, but this room of which we speak, is really a replication of a "room"
that exists in some other “spiritual” dimension outside the vast universe as we
know it. This room exists infinitely
beyond human experience or perception.
Only
the blood of those two animals assuaged the wrath of this God who's law, as was
symbolized by the contents in the arc,
was constantly and invariably broken by men.
When it came to judicial matters,
applying the "nuts and bolts" to maintaining law and order in a
society, judges were assigned to decide matters between disputing
parties. Moses gave these judges strict orders...
"You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall
not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your
neighbor fairly."
Leviticus 19:15
The words of Moses were simple and straight
forward but the Judge who was assigned to his post was not simply assigned to a
position of honor. He was assigned a sacred task... to dispense justice
knowing that there was a God who was aware of how he was performing his task
and that he would be held accountable eventually at one time or another, in
this life or in the next, for how he'd performed his duties. He was to be
reminded that he did not hold absolute power but that the God, his creator, was
the one with the absolute power.
And so, my friends, as long as people believe
that there is no God, we shall see a continued deterioration of
society. As long as people believe in the wrong God,
that deterioration will also happen and at an even greater pace!
I feel quite confident that eventually the world
will fall into such a level of depravity, lawlessness and evil, where justice
is virtually non-existent, that the blood in front of that arc, which really
was a foreshadowing of the blood of Jesus who died on a cross, will no longer
restrain the rage of the invisible God who knows all, sees all and is the final
judge of all things.
The judge and the
defendant, as well as the plaintiff in our little vignette will each one
day, have a firsthand experience with perfectly meted out justice.
And I assure you, none of them will like it.
What about you? How do you stand in the
sight of the One who sits on the kapporeth? Maybe you've not done anything
nearly as bad as the players in our present day news story. Maybe you’ve done worse. But have you
gone through your days doing things and carrying on in a manner that's
oblivious to that one who sits on that kapporeth? Have you said to
yourself “Even if He did exist, He doesn’t see what I do”? God tells you to
repent. Give your life to Him. That blood before the arc?
That was a look ahead to the blood of Jesus which stayed the wrath of
the living God for the breaking of His law. Apply that blood to your
life, make amends, where you can, for what you've done, and seek to serve
the true God of both love and mercy and yet justice. He will forgive you and He will give you a
fresh start.
My very best to you.
Benyomin
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