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Under the Law of Moses, if you were a murderer, willfully, you were put to death.
That was the Law. Given BY GOD Himself.
But it was not ALWAYS applied, even to the most vicious of killers: i.e., the horrific
King Manasseh (who, when he repented of his mass killings, was not only forgiven by God and not “put in prison” nor executed, but actually RESTORED, by GOD, to the THRONE OF DAVID to RULE over Israel, over the VERY PEOPLE he had abused, murdered, and led into horrific idolatries). King David was also a murderer, who repented, and was spared ((but God sent a lot of trouble his way in his life for it, because he had known God personally and very well for a long time when he committed his deliberate murder, even tho he later repented, but only AFTER being confronted, over a year later, by the Prophet Nathan)). Under God’s Law for Israel, the nation, including judicial law, if you were an adulterer, a sodomite, a prostitute, you were also to be put to Death judicially ((those who advocate harsh sentences for “criminals” today, are often people whose own mortal sins warrant the Death Penalty under God’s Strict Law, and they often FORGET that fact, while advocating long “hard time” for people whose sins/crimes, under GOD’s law, warrant FAR LESS punishment and not even a Divinely-ordained penalty of judicially-applied Death)). If you were a thief or a fraudster, under God’s harsh, strict Law Code, you were not jailed, you were made to pay back what you took (sometimes four to seven times over), and if you couldn’t pay it back, you were forced into slavery (indentured servitude) until six years were up or you had paid it all back.
There were no jails or prisons draining the national “budget,” so to speak.
I watched LOCKUP out of curiousity, and was horrified at what I saw. People who have committed white-collar offenses, utterly nonviolent, are put in hell-holes with violent NeoNazi’s, black and white and latino GANGSTERS, the most brutal of people you can imagine, in places CHOCK FULL of gang rape, mass-homosexual behavior, continous, nonstop obscene talk, racial hatred that is ENFORCED by the gangs, heavy drug use (yes, they get the hard drugs into those places by the tons), beatings, stabbings, sodomizings with broomsticks, throat-slittings (for saying hi to a black guy if you are white, inflicted on you by OTHER whites for doing so). And people call these places “Justice”??? Or “Corrections” facilities?? These environments are, frankly, demonic and literally infested with demonic activity (the evil spirits thrive in atmospheres of despair and are most active in such places). They make people WORSE, they don’t correct them at all. The “recidivism” rates are proof of that. This kind of obscene filth was never advocated by God. These places should be reserved only for dangerous, incorrigibly violent offenders. They make other people far worse than they were before they went in. I support a ministry to locked-up folks called Dismas Ministry,
dismasministry.org – they provide priests, bibles, sacramentals, catechisms, prayer books, etc., to help convert those locked up. And I pray to God that, once HE knows they are truly converted and no longer a danger to anyone, that HE bring about their release, for these places are Satanic hell-holes where no Christian should be, because they are 24-hour-a-day GUARANTEED “Near Occasions of Sin,” and of Mortal Sin at that. I was shocked by what I saw on those LOCKUP documentaries.
Those who advocate putting nonviolent people in such places for things like check-kiting or buying dope or whatever, should ask themselves, before they advocate such,
if THEIR confessed sins, in GOD’s eyes, warrant a penalty far more severe, such as the Death Penalty. Many of our mortal sins, which we quickly forgive ourselves for after we have gone to confession and received absolution and penance, actually call for,
in the Word of God and by the Command of God to Moses, the Judicial Application of the Death Penalty, and that Publicly. Ever committed adultery? Death Penalty. Ever fornicated? Death Penalty. Ever uttered blasphemy? Death Penalty. Ever performed an abortion, or a late term abortion, or a partial birth abortion, or RECEIVED one? Death Penalty. Yet these are forgiven, pardoned, and most after confession think nothing of them ever again, or keep asking for mercy when they fall, but want some jerk who writes bad checks locked up for 30 years in one of those hell holes. Is that right? To want mercy for ourselves, for our Death-Penalty deserving offenses, but want retribution for those whose acts call for, from God himself, for far less of a penalty? Especially nonviolent people?
The Death Penalty is NOT a sin and never has been, in principle.
But it is proper for the Church, today, to call for the curtailing of it’s use. Violent, dangerous people can be confined, and (if protected from other violent predators), be given a chance to repent. Some will object: but their VICTIMS don’t have a chance to repent!!!
True, but neither did Uriah, King David’s victim, yet God forgave and restored David.
Neither did the thousands of innocent people that King Manasseh murdered, yet God forgave and restored King Manasseh. Neither did the Egyptian that Moses Murdered, yet God made Moses into a Great Saint and did not put HIM to death. Jacob, instead of waiting for GOD to give him the blessing promised, deliberately schemed to commit, and actually committed, deliberate fraud against his father Isaac and against his brother Esau, and yet God made him a Saint and the great Patriarch of the 12 Tribes of Israel.
