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Some people today become disinterested in the Bible when they learn of how God allowed polygamy or slavery or other issues that bother their personal sense of justice. Are you one of them? I hope this illustration can reach the heart, showing the great patience and superior wisdom that Jehovah demonstrated in permitting such practices:
ILLUSTRATION
There have been some terrible situations in which someone has been accidentally impaled by some kind of metal rod/bar. The first reaction by almost everyone is, ”Oh no! Get that out of his stomach/chest NOW!” But doctors state that actually the opposite should be done, “DO NOT REMOVE IT!!!”, as this would cause more damage and the injured person may lose blood too quickly and die! Such a decision though seems so counterintuitive or contrary to common sense, “How can we leave a big foreign object inside a person?”
But here is an example of how “wisdom is proved righteous by its works”.
When the foreign object is kept in place securely but just for a temporary time so that under professional supervision doctors can find the best way and best timing to remove it, many patients lives have been saved!
Similarly, Jehovah in HIS vast wisdom and with His special insight into us as humans, chose with certain deeply engrained cultural issues inside Israel like polygamy, slavery, etc, to NOT TAKE OUT THE FOREIGN OBJECT OUT IMMEDIATELY but instead in His wisdom and with great patience, He chose to keep the foreign object in place under His supervision, permitting it only temporarily until the best time to remove it! But until that future best time to remove it, Jehovah as Father and Surgeon would help guide and protect any polygamous families by commanding and having laws and regulations that would govern polygamy so that the first wife and her children would be safe and be guaranteed certain rights of inheritance. Also, the next wives and their children would be protected as well.
Just as no doctor would purposefully puncture a patient or encourage puncturing someone, Jehovah also did not originate or encourage polygamy, and other bad practices, it might be said that Jehovah in His great patience just temporarily tolerated it as this cultural tradition was in opposition to His beautiful creation of the “1 flesh”, 1 couple martial arrangement. But just as any of us as adults would be in a very FRAGILE state if we were accidentally impaled in our stomach or chest with some object, imagine how much more of a FRAGILE state a young child would be in if he/she was impaled with a metal rod! Similarly, Israel was a young “child”, a young nation, when Jehovah was creating the Mosaic Law to help it, guide it, and protect it. This “young child” of a nation was extremely fragile, so Jehovah watched over this young one as both Father and Surgeon in order to protect it from, not just enemies, but protect it from even themselves due to the many wrong and hurtful cultural ideas, philosophies, they has absorbed from the surrounding nations and from Satan’s influence! So this young child was in a very fragile state when their Father and Surgeon wisely chose to NOT TAKE OUT THE FOREIGN OBJECT IMMEDIATELY
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According to David Turay, M.D., Ph.D., a trauma surgeon at the Mayo Clinic:
“…not touching or removing an impaled object, as it could worsen the injury. Also, he explains it's impossible to know what the object may touch inside the patient's body, perhaps compressing a vessel enough to prevent bleeding out. He suggests waiting for a surgeon to address it, as interference may worsen the injury.”
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ILLUSTRATION
There have been some terrible situations in which someone has been accidentally impaled by some kind of metal rod/bar. The first reaction by almost everyone is, ”Oh no! Get that out of his stomach/chest NOW!” But doctors state that actually the opposite should be done, “DO NOT REMOVE IT!!!”, as this would cause more damage and the injured person may lose blood too quickly and die! Such a decision though seems so counterintuitive or contrary to common sense, “How can we leave a big foreign object inside a person?”
But here is an example of how “wisdom is proved righteous by its works”.
When the foreign object is kept in place securely but just for a temporary time so that under professional supervision doctors can find the best way and best timing to remove it, many patients lives have been saved!
Similarly, Jehovah in HIS vast wisdom and with His special insight into us as humans, chose with certain deeply engrained cultural issues inside Israel like polygamy, slavery, etc, to NOT TAKE OUT THE FOREIGN OBJECT OUT IMMEDIATELY but instead in His wisdom and with great patience, He chose to keep the foreign object in place under His supervision, permitting it only temporarily until the best time to remove it! But until that future best time to remove it, Jehovah as Father and Surgeon would help guide and protect any polygamous families by commanding and having laws and regulations that would govern polygamy so that the first wife and her children would be safe and be guaranteed certain rights of inheritance. Also, the next wives and their children would be protected as well.
Just as no doctor would purposefully puncture a patient or encourage puncturing someone, Jehovah also did not originate or encourage polygamy, and other bad practices, it might be said that Jehovah in His great patience just temporarily tolerated it as this cultural tradition was in opposition to His beautiful creation of the “1 flesh”, 1 couple martial arrangement. But just as any of us as adults would be in a very FRAGILE state if we were accidentally impaled in our stomach or chest with some object, imagine how much more of a FRAGILE state a young child would be in if he/she was impaled with a metal rod! Similarly, Israel was a young “child”, a young nation, when Jehovah was creating the Mosaic Law to help it, guide it, and protect it. This “young child” of a nation was extremely fragile, so Jehovah watched over this young one as both Father and Surgeon in order to protect it from, not just enemies, but protect it from even themselves due to the many wrong and hurtful cultural ideas, philosophies, they has absorbed from the surrounding nations and from Satan’s influence! So this young child was in a very fragile state when their Father and Surgeon wisely chose to NOT TAKE OUT THE FOREIGN OBJECT IMMEDIATELY
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According to David Turay, M.D., Ph.D., a trauma surgeon at the Mayo Clinic:
“…not touching or removing an impaled object, as it could worsen the injury. Also, he explains it's impossible to know what the object may touch inside the patient's body, perhaps compressing a vessel enough to prevent bleeding out. He suggests waiting for a surgeon to address it, as interference may worsen the injury.”
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