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DEUTERONOMY 24:16 (VS EXODUS 20:5) (FATHERS SHOULD NOT BE PUT TO DEATH FOR…
DEUTERONOMY 24:16 (VS EXODUS 20:5)
FATHERS SHOULD NOT BE PUT TO DEATH FOR WHAT THEIR CHILDREN DO, AND CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE PUT TO DEATH FOR WHAT THEIR FATHERS DO.
EXAMPLE: WHY WERE DAVID AND BATH-SHEBA NOT PUT TO DEATH FOR COMMITTING ADULTERY, WHEREAS THEIR NEWBORN SON DIED?
DAVID AND BATH-SHEBA WERE NOT TO ESCAPE ALL CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR SIN.
READ PSALM 51:13
THE BITTER CONSEQUENCES OF SIN SHOULD DETER US FROM REPEATING A WRONG.
DAVID USED THE SAD EXPERIENCE GAINED FROM HIS SINFUL CONDUCT TO COUNSEL OTHERS.’
READ 2 CHRONICLES 25:3, 4
A PERSON SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH ONLY FOR HIS OWN SIN.
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR OWN ACTIONS.
WHEN GOD FORGIVES, DOES HE FORGET? YES!
READ EZEKIEL 18:20
JEHOVAH HAS NOT HELPED SATAN TO RULE THIS WORLD.
IF JEHOVAH WERE TO ACT IN THAT WAY, HE WOULD BECOME PARTY TO A LIE.
WOULD GOD NOT BE MAKING PEOPLE THINK THAT PERHAPS HUMANS CAN GOVERN THEMSELVES WITHOUT DISASTROUS RESULTS?
IF GOD WERE TO PREVENT HORRIBLE CRIMES, FOR INSTANCE, WOULD HE NOT, IN EFFECT, BE SUPPORTING THE CASE OF THE REBELS?
DOES EZEKIEL 18:20, WHICH SAYS THAT “A SON HIMSELF WILL BEAR NOTHING BECAUSE OF THE ERROR OF THE FATHER,” CONTRADICT EXODUS 20:5, WHICH SAYS THAT JEHOVAH BRINGS “PUNISHMENT FOR THE ERROR OF FATHERS UPON SONS”?
AS CREATOR AND LIFE-GIVER, JEHOVAH HAS EVERY RIGHT TO DETERMINE WHAT PUNISHMENT IS JUST AND APPROPRIATE.
THERE IS NO CONTRADICTION. ONE STATEMENT FOCUSES ON THE INDIVIDUAL’S ACCOUNTABILITY, AND THE OTHER ACKNOWLEDGES THE REALITY THAT A PERSON’S ERROR MAY HAVE CONSEQUENCES AFFECTING HIS DESCENDANTS.
JEHOVAH “HEARS THE OUTCRY OF THE AFFLICTED ONES,” AND INDIVIDUALS WHO EARNESTLY TURN TO HIM MAY RECEIVE HIS FAVOR AND EVEN SOME MEASURE OF RELIEF.
CURSE
THE MALEDICTION ALSO CERTIFIES THAT THERE CAN BE NO TRIFLING WITH OR DESPISING OF GOD’S PRINCIPLES AND ANNOUNCED PURPOSES
A MALEDICTION CAN BE SET ASIDE OR CANCELED BY JEHOVAH, BUT ONLY WHERE HIS JUST REQUIREMENTS ARE PROPERLY SATISFIED.
ONE PURPOSE OF DIVINE MALEDICTIONS IS TO MAKE CLEAR WHO ARE AND WHO ARE NOT GOD’S APPROVED SERVANTS:
SINCE THE MALEDICTIONS MANIFEST GOD’S DISAPPROVAL, EVEN AS HIS BLESSINGS MANIFEST HIS APPROVAL.
GENERATION
A GENERATION MAY MEAN A CLASS OF PERSONS, THAT IS, THOSE CHARACTERIZED BY CERTAIN QUALITIES OR CONDITIONS.
A GENERATION COMMONLY REFERS TO ALL PERSONS WHO WERE BORN ABOUT THE SAME TIME.
THE TERM CAN BE USED AS A MEASURE OF TIME WITH REFERENCE TO PAST OR FUTURE AGES.