Friday, January 18, 2008
Because Society Can Get Twisted
A lady was traveling with her boyfriend/husband; they met an old man in one of the towns they were passing through, and they went to his house to stay the night. When they got to the house, a gang pounded on the door demanding that the owner send out the husband so that they could rape him. The owner of the house told them he would send out the visiting lady and his own virgin daughter if they would leave the visiting husband alone. The gang wouldn’t listen, and persisted. Then the husband pushed his wife out the door. And she was brutally assaulted and raped all night long. The next morning, near dead, and with all her strength she crawled to the front door, and barely got her hands on the threshold, when she died. The husband opened the door and found her dead. He took her body home, cut her up into 12 pieces and mailed each body part to the leaders of the 12 tribes of Israel – in order to find justice against... the gang. This is Why.
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Interesting way to resay the end of Judges. When the priest took a woman with him and then left her outside his door and she was raped and died and in the morning when he found her dead he cut her up into 12 pieces and had each piece delivered to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Time for lunch soon...
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There are so many interesting things about this story...first their relationship...husband/wife? Concubine/master?? Man/woman?? My intention was to draw the reader away from those details that tangle one up...because ultimatley it was the love between a man and woman.
Why we need Jesus, and why He came (which is the question that goes with the answer that makes the title)...is because society can get so twisted that it is considered 'normal' for a man to push the woman he loves to such a death...in order to save his own life/reputation. It's not the gang's fault she died...it's the failure of the social strata defining their relation to each other - -when it was actually defined by love...as demonstrated by his wanting her back after she had been gone for 4 months.
This story continues to render me speechless, and I am sure it will be a while before I can really break it down.
BTW: Lunch sounds great:)
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