Considering SLAUGHTER. Luke 19:27(S2-Episode #42)

One of the best things about not cherry-picking passages of the Bible is that you eventually come across stuff you don't understand or worse: you DO understand it, but you just don't like it.  Today is one of those such days.  In the millions of Podcasts out there, I guarantee that this is the only one on SLAUGHTER.

So this is a parable in Luke 19.  Good Bible scholarship means to read it like a parable.  The problem with that is that the rest of the Bible pretty much is clear as to its meaning.  There really is a King.  He's coming back.  He'll treat rebels and traitors in a just way.  That is, He will justly, perfectly, SLAUGHTER them.  Eternally too, I forgot about that.

But don't I WANT a God who is just? Don't I want a God who punishes perfectly?  (for others maybe, for me, definitely NOT!) Nobody gets a punishment in heaven or hell that they did not deserve.  So, they get slaughtered for rejecting the ruler and reign of the coming King.  The problem is, we have all fallen short.

How then does God fix this slaughter?  You won't believe the answer: with another SLAUGHTER.  That is, the slaughter of His Son Jesus.  Who'd have thought up this part?  Only God.  We would all have stopped at retributive justice.  We'd have all forgotten substitutionary justice.  By loving this King, and by embracing His kingdom we are rescued from slaughter by HIS SLAUGHTER.  Start with slaughter.  End with Awe.  

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