amadeus2
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I struggle to explain a lot of God's commands in the Old Testment
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’” (1 Sam 15:2-3)
I have found that God often uses the carnal reality in the OT as an analogy to a spiritual reality in the NT.
Kill the Amalekites and all of the "-ites" as they are listed in Joshua 3:10. Those seven "-ites" perhaps correspond to the seven evils described in Proverbs:
"These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." Prov 6:16-19
All of the messages in the Bible are complex, but we do not need to understand all of them. We only need to understand what God speaks to our heart.