RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
Given how abhorrent child sacrifice is and how much Yahweh hates it, 2 Kings 3:27 suggests a problem.
Who or what is the source of the "wrath against Israel"?
1. Yahweh? Certainly not, for obvious reasons.
2. Moabitic army? Possibly, but it doesn't make sense in the context. Yahweh was routing Moab for Israel and the rout was almost complete. In any case, the question remains: what is the relationship between the sacrifice and the inexplicable and sudden Moabitic courage?
3. Dark powers? Possibly. We know today from victims of Satanic cults that blood sacrifice is key to their rites. Further, this does connect the narrative with Moloch and Chemosh, the patron gods of Planned Parenthood and the Temple of Satan in Detroit, for instance. So a connection can be made. I am not necessarily making it, however. However, the problem with this suggestion is that it has the dark powers negating Yahweh's route.
26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him 700 swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom, but they could not. 27 Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.
Who or what is the source of the "wrath against Israel"?
1. Yahweh? Certainly not, for obvious reasons.
2. Moabitic army? Possibly, but it doesn't make sense in the context. Yahweh was routing Moab for Israel and the rout was almost complete. In any case, the question remains: what is the relationship between the sacrifice and the inexplicable and sudden Moabitic courage?
3. Dark powers? Possibly. We know today from victims of Satanic cults that blood sacrifice is key to their rites. Further, this does connect the narrative with Moloch and Chemosh, the patron gods of Planned Parenthood and the Temple of Satan in Detroit, for instance. So a connection can be made. I am not necessarily making it, however. However, the problem with this suggestion is that it has the dark powers negating Yahweh's route.