"And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel./And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:/And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon."
In this context let us go back to the fable of Jotham. "The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us./But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honor God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?((:8-9)"
What made olive tree bear the fatness to honor God and man but God who is the Head? When trees forget this crucial fact it bodes ill for them. They are clueless without God. What they choose shall be leaders without exception, fools whose short-sightedness only matched by the calamity brought in by events that turn contrary. This is one lesson we learned from wars in our century. Unless God is not the head, - the Tree of Liberty we shall keep counting Iraq, Afghanistan not to forget Vietnam so many bitter fruits of nation's misdaventure. You keep counting and it shall do no good. People perish for want of vision.
This is how man without God leads nations.
Israel had to come back to Jephthah whom they had earlier rejected because God had taken a hand in the matter.
"And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel./And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:/And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon."
In this context let us go back to the fable of Jotham. "The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us./But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honor God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?((:8-9)"
What made olive tree bear the fatness to honor God and man but God who is the Head? When trees forget this crucial fact it bodes ill for them. They are clueless without God. What they choose shall be leaders without exception, fools whose short-sightedness only matched by the calamity brought in by events that turn contrary. This is one lesson we learned from wars in our century. Unless God is not the head, - the Tree of Liberty we shall keep counting Iraq, Afghanistan not to forget Vietnam so many bitter fruits of nation's misdaventure. You keep counting and it shall do no good. People perish for want of vision.
This is how man without God leads nations.
Israel had to come back to Jephthah whom they had earlier rejected because God had taken a hand in the matter.
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