Jephthah's Daughter

[@CleanFun]

Numbers 8:11-16 Clearly demonstrates and supports the fact that she went to work in the temple.

[@alphazolax1843]

My spirit accept your understanding on this matter , thank you

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Thank you for that affirmation, I appreciate you

[@keleniengaluafe2600]

This is one of my favorite story in the bible ❤ ♥it brings me tears every time I read the story!!!I shared the story with my daughters!!they love the story!! THANKS for sharing this is a great video!!!!

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Me too! And what a lovely story to share with your daughters. May they grow into the full blessing of being loved by God💜 Grace and peace, Joanne

[@DGGroup-a2z]

pro life?

[@toniannsandford2715]

The one where the father does a late term abortion on his daughter? 😂

[@neilbondad4476]

Even before Jephthah made his vow God already knows this and God is against human sacrifices for God gives love, justice, & compassion. The scenario could be the same as Abraham sacrifice of Isaac and God is very pleased to those who followed Him. The Bible simply put a question mark to what could have happened and let us decide what could it be. If you ask me, my firm belief is that God did not let Jephthah sacrifice his daughter instead his daughter is dedicated to God up to her old age, the hint on this can be red on verse 39 ''and she had no relations with a man.'' remember trust God and do not doubt his way.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

You and I came to the very same conclusion! That is good exegesis, to begin with the character and ways of God.

[@karensanchez8417]

I’m sooo relieved to have found this. I was disturbed as to how many took the interpretation of an actual human sacrifice And therefore called Yahweh a horrible God. 😞. Thank you for the thoroughly described study! God bless

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Thank you, I have been disturbed, too, for years. It makes me think of what faithfulness really means in relationships. When rumors go around meant to tarnish a person’s reputation, their friends are expected to stand up for that person. So when we read a story like this one, what lens are we using? A suspicion that God is, after all, as horrible as the rumors say? Or certainty that there must be an explanation? I decided I would read this story looking for God first, the God I know. And there it was, the story pretty much told itself after that.

[@TheRealIsrael676]

​@@GraceandPeaceJoannewhich is what? Human sacrificed?

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

It is my contention that Jephthah's daughter did not become a human sacrifice, but rather dedicated her life to the service of the tabernacle. That Jephthah made his vow while swept up in the Spirit of God, and did not really know what he was vowing until he saw his daughter. The precedent is Abraham with Isaac, for God never intended that Isaac would become a.saceifice, but rather that Abraham would be willing to give up to God wall that Isaac represented, putting the fuflifillment of God's covenantal promises entirely in God's hands.

[@toniannsandford2715]

Umm he did read the words. She was burnt like a witch at the stake.

[@dragosnc4624]

The Bible says the spirit of God came upon Jephthah and after that, he made the vow. 29Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites. 30And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord: “If you give the Ammonites into my hands, 31whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.” Could God inspire him to make a vow against God's rules?

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

That is it exactly! You have pointed out the key to the whole story. The Spirit of God was upon Jephthah when he made his vow. Jephthah was not thinking about his daughter, and possibly assumed that one of the animals ancient Israelites typically kept in the courtyard and front room of their home would come out first, and he would offer up that valuable animal to the Lord as a thank offering. But it seems God had something else in mind, the dedication of Jephthah's daughter to the Lord's service, as provided in Leviticus, which I outline in the video. Grace and peace, Joanne

[@dragosnc4624]

@@GraceandPeaceJoanne I think there is a lesson for us today, that for victory in the spiritual battle, we have to sacrifice sometimes things or persons that we love most, not literally but to give up on some relationships and dedicate our time or life to make the Gods will. How many Christians compromise to satisfy their loved ones' desires that aren't aligned with God's will? Adam did so because he wanted to align with Eva's choice and so they became sinners and condemned all mankind to sin and death. Everyone must choose between God's will or flesh's will, meaning his immediate interests belong to this present time. God's will on the other hand means giving up present flesh desires but future everlasting life. No one can escape from this choice.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

This is such a wise insight, and so true. Doing a great work for God will require much from us, and it is God who will guide what must be given up for the Lord's sake. Thank you for writing this, and may God bless the reading of it, and applying it to our lives. Grace and peace, Joanne

[@dragosnc4624]

@@GraceandPeaceJoanne Thanks, and I wish ypu the same!

[@PaulanCollins7585]

God, bless you for this beautiful story also.... Of the clans and their father...Gad, Ma-nas-seh and Gilead's and his family God works in mysterious ways..... Concerning the Tribes...nevertheless....

[@huganugauthenticbahamian]

That was his only child so I can imagine how much he loved her. God loved his son also but he gave him up as a sacrifice for the sin of the human race. This story aligns perfectly with the new testament. In my personal devotional this morning I read this and was fascinated by everything. God really expects for us to honor our vows whether we understand or not, that is why he says not to promise to do anything and then change your mind, because he doesn't delight in fools

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Yes, that is a Jesus saying, to let our yes be yes and our no be no, to be people of our word. You and I are thinking along the same lines with this story. Jephthah experienced the heart of God in this, and it is for a reason that he continued as a wise judge of Israel.

[@CleanFun]

Jephthah's daughter became a servant of the tabernacle. Her life was dedicated, not destroyed. The very thought that Jephthah's daughter died miserably in a flaming pyre on some altar in the desert, as a reward for her father's valor in saving God's people, is so stupid and such a grotesque misreading that it goes far beyond the mere stretching of reason, beyond the realm of absurdity, all the way into outright stupid satanic suggestion. First off, according to Levitical law, every burnt offering was to be a male without blemish, and each step of the sacrifice was a sacred sequence designed solely for bulls, sheep, goats, doves, and pigeons. Contrarily, snakes, spiders, unicorns, and little girls who love their daddies were not allowed to be sacrificed under any circumstance whatsoever. Mankind was and is made in the image of God Himself. Consider, if you will, the explicit and precise nature of the burnt offering ritual. The animal, once brought to the altar, was slaughtered, its throat slit to ensure a complete draining of blood-'for the life of the flesh is in the blood,' as Leviticus states (Leviticus 17:11). No flesh could be consumed without this sacred release of life. Afterward, the priests would carefully flay the animal, stripping off its skin, then parting and dissecting it. The entrails and legs were washed thoroughly to ensure ritual cleanliness. Its flesh, head, fat, and other parts were meticulously separated and arranged upon the altar, piece by piece, until the entire animal was wholly consumed by fire. What person would dare to suggest that Israel's priests-guardians of God's holy ordinances-would commit such a vile act, subjecting a young woman, her family, themselves, and the people of Israel to the grisly spectacle of a burnt human offering? I'll tell you who. 1. Gross sinners who have consciously chosen their sin over God and have entered into an open rebellion. 2. Those with a deep misunderstanding or willful distortion of Israel's faith would even entertain such a notion. 3. Those who harbor anti-Semitic bias, seeking to portray ancient Israel's worship as cruel or barbaric, might resort to such an accusation, aiming to denigrate what was, in fact, a system founded on reverence for life and God's holiness. 4. Luciferians and Satanists, who pervert Christian symbols and principles, could project such heinous practices onto Israel's worship, attributing to it their own abhorrent values in an attempt to degrade the purity of God's commands, which strangely is part of their own cherished anti-value system. These accusations ignore the entire spirit and true meaning of the holy arrangement that is Judeo-Christianity. For God Himself decreed in Leviticus 18:21, Deuteronomy 12:31, and Deuteronomy 18:10 that human sacrifice is an abomination that is categorically forbidden and abhorrent to Him. Merely suggesting that Jephthah's daughter was ritually slain insults not only the divine Law but also God's faithful worshipers, who fear and revere the sanctity of life as instructed by God Himself. In truth, her life was consecrated, sanctified in service and a living commitment to God, not a life destroyed. To suggest that Jephthah's daughter was sacrificed in a burnt offering is to ignore the profound cultural and religious identity rooted in the Law given by Moses. This Law was far more than a set of rules, it was the heartbeat of Israel's national identity, their covenant with God, and a daily guide that touched every facet of life. Just as every true American knows who they won their independence from, every Israelite knew the history and commands delivered through Moses a mere 300 years, or three long generations, earlier. These divine instructions shaped not only their relationship with God but also the very fabric of their society. And although you may not remember the first or second amendment, their life wasn't so saturated with endless nonsense. They remembered all 613 mitzvot and you could walk down the street and ask almost anyone to recite them back to you with a 95% success rate. These laws are not to them what they are to you. They took them serious. They counted their laws with even more love than you count your hard-earned paper money. Jephthah calling out a burnt offering was like saying 'the whole enchilada '. Every single part, nothing withheld. When we say `the whole enchilada‘, we're not actually talking about an enchilada, and neither was Jephthah's oath intended to be taken absolutely literally. Jephthah's vow was never intended as a literal burnt offering of his daughter but as a declaration of total consecration. '100% God's,' set apart without reservation. If a male lamb without blemish had run out, I'm sure it would have hit the altar. But if a slave came out, he or she would have gone into tabernacle service. But it was his own daughter. Not to be mutilated and consumed in flames, but to serve honorably and respectfully in the temple, so honorably and respectfully that she requested two months to lament her virginity. Let's be honest, when you're staring down death's door, you're hardly worried about not having known the rod of Jacob or having embraced the scepter of Solomon or having your vineyard tilled. These priests, descendants of Aaron and the only ones authorized to perform sacrifices, appointed as custodians of God's holiness, would know beyond any doubt that God expressly forbids human sacrifice. Jephthah is not a descendant of Aaron and, therefore, would have no authority to perform any sacrificial ritual-certainly not in secret, if that's the next wild, absurd suggestion the devil whispers to your peabrain. Only priests from the line of Aaron were ever permitted to conduct sacrifices, and their work was bound by the highest standards of holiness, visibility, and adherence to God's explicit commands. The Law, as given to Moses, is unwavering on this matter. In Leviticus 18:21, God commands, 'You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God.' In Deuteronomy 12:31, He declares with clarity, 'You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.' Again, in Deuteronomy 18:10, He reinforces this command, 'There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering.' Numbers 8:11-16 reminds us that the Israelites did indeed consecrate individuals to God-offered up as a living sacrifice, not in death, but in lifelong devotion. The Levites were set apart and presented as a 'wave offering,' symbolizing their dedication to God's service, not as lifeless sacrifices but as living servants wholly given to Him. This act of consecration demanded purity and total commitment of life, not death. Even within the sin offerings, where blood symbolized atonement, human life was never offered up in death, for every sacrifice preserved the sacredness of life. Each type of offering held its purpose and meaning, and none of these-burnt, sin, peace, or otherwise-permitted the slaughter of human beings as a sacrifice to God. God's Law would never allow such an abomination among His people. Thus, in every way, Jephthah's daughter's consecration would reflect a living offering, a life wholly set apart in service to God, not a life destroyed upon the altar. And look, too, to Christ, the ultimate fulfillment of sacrifice, who, while offered for sin, accomplished it in a way far removed from ritual slaughter. Unlike any sacrifice before, Christ's was voluntary, transcending the limitations of law-bound offerings. He gave His life willingly, submitting to death yet transforming it into an eternal, perfect sacrifice that fulfills every law-bound offering of old. Thus, when Jephthah's daughter went to the mountains to mourn her virginity, it was no dirge for impending death but a lament for the life she would surrender in lifelong service. She grieved not because she was to be killed, but because she would know no husband, no children. To interpret her story otherwise is to impose upon Israel the customs of pagan nations, to forget God's abhorrence of human sacrifice, and to ignore His unwavering commands against shedding innocent blood. Israel was uniquely called, as part of their covenant, to abolish these pagan practices, eradicating the very customs that desecrated life. Her offering was one of holy devotion, an enduring service, the kind of sacrifice God desired-a life set apart, not a life destroyed. Her fate was consecration, not combustion.

[@CleanFun]

I hope this helps you and your channel. I've seen the topic arise enough times that I took a moment to sit down and, with God's guidance, hopefully lay to rest any and all misunderstandings.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

I'm very grateful you did, this is careful research laid out in a very readable way. I appreciate you, and may God add God's blessing and power to your work. Grace and peace, Joanne

[@kittieodonnell7215]

I am in total agreement with this teaching. God does not contradict His character because He cannot. I have read this story many, many times. The first time I read it, of course, it troubled because after reading God's standards regarding human sacrifice, I couldn't believe that He would then move someone to sacrifice a child. But I held onto the belief that the Word of God is true and He would give revelation as I continued to seek Him. I started to understand the history differently, and this teaching confirmed my understanding of the history. Thank You, Jesus. God does not want His children wandering in darkness . He will give us what we need at the appointed time because He is faithful.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Amen! You and I followed the same path with this story. The story of Abraham.and Isaac also helps, because Abraham.came first, so Jephthah surely remembered how God showed Abraham how different God is than the gods of Abraham's day.

[@Prakash-iu4sn]

Well discribed

[@gailjones1807]

Thank you for bringing the truth about the scripture of Jephthah and Jephthah's daughter. I used to ponder 🤔 about why Jephthah made that vow to the LORD whom honored the LORD more than that villagers. I read about Jabez whom the LORD honored and answered his prayers. I believe that if you make a vow to the Lord, it must be kept: and with His help 🆘, you are able to keep it because you desire to do so. I read that scripture of Jephthah in the King James Version, and I realized that Jephthah's daughter, in honor of her father's vow to the LORD, accepted her fate, and became dedicated to her LORD too It almost reminded me now of Philip's daughters who were prophetesses and committed to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lover of their souls. Maybe 🤔, it was the same way with Jephthah's daughter. Thank you once again for an awesome and exuberant lesson about rejection, how GOD is a GOD of the turn around of one's life when depending upon Him, and commitment on both the life of Jephthah and his daughter. And the women of Israel commemorated her sacrifice of giving her life to the LORD GOD for service.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

And what a wonderful connection to Phillip's daughters! I hadn't thought of that before, and I think you're right. Thank you for blessing me with your good word (as from the Lord).

[@kirm8137]

Wonderful video, thanks! I just finished reading the account of Jephthah in the Bible and it had me a bit perturbed as always. I just finished watching a video where the person believed that Jephthah actually sacrificed his daughter as a burnt offering. I can't believe that many people really believe this. He said it was so that God would have us reflect carefully on our vows to Him. That is important, but I couldn't believe his conclusion that Jephthah would commit this barbarous affront to God and actually physically destroy his own daughter. But you disputed this wrong view with powerful scriptural proof; examples from Hebrew scriptures of the past and then wrapping them up with confirmations from the Christian Greek Scriptures. BTW, I never thought of what Jephthah was doing with his band of outlaws in Tob, but you filled it in nicely. It all came together logically and showed why the Ammonites were angry and why Jephthah had so much sway with the Elders of Gilead. Thanks again.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

I also have heard the kind of teaching you described, and I could never make peace with it. That's what drove me to do a deep dive myself. Grace and peace, Joanne

[@marcusmuse4787]

it is important to note that God did not accept Jephtha’s sacrifice of his daughter because it is against his law to sacrifice one’s son, daughter or any other human being, even if it is to fulfil a vow

[@davidburrows4801]

​@@GraceandPeaceJoanne,the verse is pretty plain jephtaph made a rash promise to God that he'd sacrifice as a burt offering the first thing to come out of his house on his return,he wouldn't have torn his clothes and cried in agony if he were sending her to a convent he knew what hed promised and it says he carried out that promise which was to offer her as a burnt offering .nothing in the verse says any different.

[@maribelibrahim8560]

This is a real bright spot for me in Judges, which is a really hard book to read with all its violence. I still think that Jeptheh’s vow was rash but it makes a lot of sense that God would have given Jeptheh an out in order to preserve life. Jeptheh’s daughter showed amazing grace and dedication to the Lord.

[@maribelibrahim8560]

And even if she was not killed, it was a great sacrifice to yield his only begotten child to the Lord. He yielded any chance of an earthly inheritance!

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Good insight, exactly so! And you join great minds who agree with your insight. Jephthah is commended in two places, one in the Hebrew scriptures, one in the Greek, for having great faith.

[@marcusmuse4787]

The Bible condemns child sacrifice and considers it an abomination. Leviticus 18:21 states that "You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord." The Bible also states that child sacrifice was practiced by some of the Israelites’ neighbors, who burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. This practice was considered an abomination by God. Jephthah was a judge and would have been well aware that there is a law in Leviticus forbidding burnt sacrifices of sons or daughters so it's possible that if he did do it it was not because of God.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

@@marcusmuse4787 this is exactly where I went in the video. It is my contention that Jephthah made his vow by God's prompting, and redeemed his daughter at the tabernacle, which the Torah also commands, and which was routinely practiced for the firstborn.

[@marcusmuse4787]

@@GraceandPeaceJoanne sorry, I didn't see the whole video before my response.

[@shmanuyah_2024watch]

Jephthah desperately went "over the top" to secure a win by that vow ...but ended up at the "bottom" - because he realized the Most High could have stopped his daughter from going to the door first. think: if she was just given to "ascent", then why would her friends or anyone lament for that? fact: being given to YHWH in temple service would be a good thing and a blessing to his family and her - but obviously that didn't happen. Judges chapter 12:7 shows when HE died, so "IF" she didn't die from the sacrifice - then when did she? ...no need to try to rewrite scripture because it feels so uncomfortable.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Thank you for taking time to write out your reading of the text, and your concern about "rewriting" the text. Invariably, there will be a variety of perspectives on any biblical passage based upon our "a prioris." One of mine is the character and nature of God. Because God prevented Abraham from sacrificing his son -- albeit at the last minute -- and provided a sacrifice to take Isaac's place, and because that story preceded Jephthah and his daughter's story, I see the physical killing of Jephthah's daughter as not a viable understanding of what happened. Instead, I believe Abraham's story informs Jephthah's. God provided and alternative. In Jephthah's case (as I sought to explain in the video), his only daughter was his only family, and his only way -- in that time and place -- to gain any sense of his name living on, unless he could find someone willing to give him not only a wife but land. Because he had been denied any inheritance from his father, and because he did not carry his father's name, Jephthah had no other hope for a legacy but in his daughter. So though it might have been an honor, her dedication in service of the temple also cut his name short. Another of my "a priori"s is how the text introduces God, and how Jephthah's vow is introduced (also factors I sought to bring out in the video. The first mention of God comes from Jephthah, an irony that points out his godliness, though he was the illegitimate son, and the elders relative lack of faith, though they were the wise elders. And the way the vow is introduced, it is tightly linked with the Spirit of God: "Then the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh. He passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites. And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord." (Judges 11:29-30 (NRSV) A vow made while in the grip of God's Spirit will be fulfilled in a way pleasing to God. There are biblical examples of vows made without God's inspiration, and that is made obvious in those texts. All those factors together tell me the surface reading of the text -- that Jephthah's daughter was killed -- is not the accurate understanding of the text. Again, thank you for engaging, I appreciate your concern for God's word. Would that all people held the Bible in such high regard.

[@KikiBorom-xd1mx]

One of the many Old Testament stories that turned me toward Gnostic Christianity and reject the Old Testament. About the only good thing Yahweh ever did was part the Red Sea.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Thank you for taking time to respond and to explain why you no longer accept the Hebrew Bible. I think a large part of the disconnect for people with the Hebrew Bible is how old it is, written in two different ancient languages and reflecting cultures very different from our twenty-first century experience. I think it's hard to read these stories and get the kind of impact from them the original readers got. Even in Jesus's day, the Hebrew Bible was old. That's why bit was translated into Greek two or three hundred years before Jesus was born--because most people didn't understand ancient Hebrew and ancient Aramaic anymore. So even in Jesus's day, the Hebrew Bible was archaic, and that's a full two thousand years ago. That all said, ine of the ways I've been reading the Hebrew Bible is to look for God first in the story, remembering the character of God as presented -by God.- God had already been presented as loving, patient, and forgiving. God had already been presented as entirely different than other gods, against human sacrifice. So, reading the story of Jephthah's daughter with that in mind, it became clear that what some people said the story was about were wrong. It's not about Jephthah being rash and stupid and it's not about the barbarity of human sacrifice. That's why I did this video.

[@peterhetherington914]

Jepthahs daughters story is so important she’s not even named. Jepthah promises god the first that greets at home as a burnt offering, the all knowing god of the Jews, who knows the past and the future, knows who would greet him at home but still accepted jepthahs only daughter as a burnt offering. Yahweh accepted a child sacrifice. Wonderful moral lesson.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Thank you for taking time to respond to the story of Jephthah's daughter. I actually spend a good deal of time in the middle of the video talking g about this very misconception, and how Jephthah's vow was made after he is filled with the Spirit of the Lord. The story of Abraham and Isaac precedes the story of Jephthah and his daughter, and acts as the scriptural precedent for understanding this account. Grace and peace, Joanne

[@peterhetherington914]

@@GraceandPeaceJoanne I understand the story completely, without putting a scriptural spin on it, Abraham was instructed to make a sacrifice of his son by Yahweh, Jaepthah without being asked made a vow to sacrifice without being asked by God to do so. Yahweh knew his daughter would be the first to greet him but agreed anyway, because Yahweh is a moral monster not above child sacrifice.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Ahh, thank you for clarifying your position, I appreciate that. Of course, this is where you and I must part ways, as I read this story through a completely different lens that presumes the goodness of God.

[@peterhetherington914]

@@GraceandPeaceJoanne “I read this story through a different lens” means you read the story with god glasses on. Nothing in this story shows Yahweh to be a loving god. He wasn’t a loving god when he drowned the world in a flood killing men, women and children (a story borrowed from older cultures) he wasn’t loving when he ordered Joshua to slaughter everybody in the towns they ransacked including the animals, he wasn’t a loving god when he ordered the continue slaughter of all canaanites, or in any other of the many stories where he was responsible for wholesale genocide. I could go on but won’t. You may have gathered I am a secular humanist and historian capable of critical thinking, I read these myths without the benefit of those god glasses which blinds you to the obvious holes in this and many other bible stories.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Where I can agree with you is my bias towards a good God, and your bias as the Biblical God being, at the least, bad. All the stories you mention are certainly troubling, and some of them are told (as you surely know) from a seemingly neutral point of view that appears to be reporting the event without comment. So the both of us have interpreted those stories, or at least -this- story, from our particular perspectives and come up with entirely different findings. No person ever has used critical thinking and the scientific method without bias of some kind, and those biases will guide both the questions and the answers.

[@examinetheWORD1]

You tell this story as if it makes God look Holy. I left Christianity because of stories like this. It is a Parable to teach people not to make negligent oaths. You are definitely deceived if you think you can tell this story like a children's book.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Thank you for weighing in Charles. As you may imagine, I do not agree with you about the point of the story. I think the point of the story shows God at work in unexpected ways, guiding Jephthah to dedicate his daughter to a calling he would most likely not have even considered, otherwise, given his time, and the value she represented to him. I see this story as one of those rare situations-particularly for that time and place, when a woman became renowned as a spiritual leader, for the women went out to her every year, for four days. For the women, especially, this yearly retreat must have been quite something. Though she mourned relinquishing the role in society that would ordinarily have brought her standing in her culture, what God had in mind for her memorialized her for millennia, for here we are today, talking about her life. I was puzzled by your last phrase, that I might be telling this story as a children’s book. How do you mean?

[@agiftofcompany]

Charles Doyle, the story remains whether you want to read it from the Torah, Bible, Qur'an, etc. You need not claim Christianity to understand the story. The creator is the same creator under the sky that blankets all nations, no matter what one chooses to name it. P.S. I have learned so much from children's books. You may try to read some for yourself.

[@WitchyWillLuna]

And yet you come to her channel and stay shit like this, If you left the faith stop turning to it then!!!

[@WitchyWillLuna]

You have 82 subs and no videos and you had to come on here and say that crap!?

[@gailjones1807]

Dear Charles, I am sorry for you because you don't believe the Word of God to help you when you are at a 🥌 and a hard place, and you need Someone bigger than You: and that Someone is the LORD GOD, Creator of heaven and earth 🌎🌍! These are people who lived before the coming of the Messiah, realized that they needed GOD'S protection, provision, and power to sustain them, to have them to survive and thrive against their enemies whom tried to steal and destroy them to nothing, but GOD intervened because they depended upon Him. GOD always fulfilled His Covenant to the Israelites, and He did as long as they depended upon and trusted Him for their protection, provision, and power! That is the example of Jephthah and his daughter. And Yes, GOD, my heavenly Father, is Holy! Absolutely, yes and Amen!!! Everybody needs the LORD, including YOU!!! I pray 🙏 that you would accept Jesus Christ who died for you for the remission of your sins because He is our sin offering. Jesus Christ died for the propitiation for our sins whom endured the cross, despised the shame, conquered death, grave, and hell for mankind, and resurrected from the dead, and sitting next to our good heavenly Father GOD 🙏. Therefore, consider Jesus Christ, the Beloved Son of the Living GOD 🙏❤️! Christianity means to have an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. Christianity means to believe on the finished works of Jesus on the cross after He shed His blood for you and me and everyone else, and didn't stop 🛑 there: Everything that we need, He provided. Because of Him, we are reconciled to GOD, our heavenly Father. He had stand in the gap for us because He loves us as a sacrificial Lamb of God! He was the promise that GOD gave the chosen people, the Israelites first, then He gave the gospel of grace to the Gentiles, second. That is Christianity. Believe in the revelation of Jesus Christ and the gospel of grace! Check out Hebrews 11. It speaks volumes!!!

[@irontaylor9992]

thisi story is traguc most off the story is about him and then he makes a promise to the lord that s god gives him yhe victory he would he would offer upthe first thing that comes out of hs house as a burnt offering the lord gives him the vicroty and hs daughter comes out to greet him he gets upset that he has to offer her as a burnt offering she tellls him to keep his promse she gose off for a whike and then he offers her as a burny offferng that is sad

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

That is one of the ways the story can be understood. But as I studied this story more, and especially from the point of view of God, and from the scriptures that would have been available at that time. In the story, Jephthah is the first to call upon the name of God, it is clear he knows his history, and the scriptures, and he does not make his vow until the Spirit of the Lord comes upon him. His daughter asks that she be given time to mourn her virginity, not her life, indicating she will never marry, not that she will lose her life. So there is another very different way to understand this story. Hats why I made this video. Grace and peace, Joanne

[@AgoristsAxioms]

"God" didn't absolve Jephthah and his daughter of his vow because Yahweh is a Demonic Alien, NOT God - actual Creator of the Universe. Jesus never once referred to Yahweh as Abba Father. The only times Jesus alluded to Yahweh he did so disparagingly. Read Mathew 7:7-11 and Luke 11:9-13 as a prime example

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Thank you for taking time to write your comment, I appreciate that. I am not familiar with your perspective. What is its background?

[@AgoristsAxioms]

@@GraceandPeaceJoanne well when you consider the facts that: Yahweh condoned, commanded or he himself committed: genocide, child murder, child sacrifice, infant baby slaughter, kidnapping of young women and virgin girls, rape, sexual slavery, forced labor slavery, forced abortion, pagan ritualistic blood sacrifices, mass innocent animal slaughter, arson, theft, looting, pillaging, rigged justice systems, brutality, torture, multi-generational curses on innocents because of the “sins” of their great-grandparents, extremely harsh punishments for trivial “offenses” against his own chosen people or leaders (even if they had absolutely nothing to do with said offenses).

[@AgoristsAxioms]

@GraceandPeaceJoanne it is my belief that Yawheh is in fact an Annunaki Extraterrestrial, most likely the sky commander Enlil from the old stories (with many parallels in the Bible) of ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians.

[@AgoristsAxioms]

@GraceandPeaceJoanne The benevolent Angels in the Bible - the most powerful of all of the Elohim are the most powerful race of ETs in the Milky Way Galaxy - The Pleiadians. Who are also kin of Christ. Christ is the highest ranking Pleiadian Angel

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

I'm unfamiliar with that cosmology, so thank you for your reply. The Bible is a chronicle of stories, poems, oracles, and wisdom literature that spans about three thousand years, not including the first few chapters of Genesis, and was completed two thousand years ago. There is a potential five thousand year span between you and I today, and the earliest history recorded in the Bible, creating a massive culture gap between our ethos and the ethos of the people that day. For the west, reading the Bible for two thousand years has shaped us far more than we probably realize. The redemptive trajectory that begins in Genesis 3 and travels all throughout Scripture has opened our eyes to all the horrors of the devastation you've described. That does not condone or dismiss what was done in those ancient times, but it does show us the power of that redemptive arc. Rather than see God as the author of all that monstrosity, I see God persevering with a people who would one day bring forth Messiah. Really it is people who came up with all that grisly abomination. We could probably, you and I, go passage by passage, and read the words of God and the commands of God together, but I'm thinking we might come to different conclusions about the why's and wherefore's for God's statements. I also struggle with cherem (which, I think, you might be alluding to with some of those war crimes), but I return to what I know of God's goodness, and God's patience, and hope, one day, I will understand better. In the meantime, everything that happened in those rough early years of the Exodus, the settling of Canaan, the many wars. all happened in ways that were culturally endorsed. Thankfully, we repudiate those ways today--because our western culture has been profoundly changed by the Bible.

[@OkoyeKelvin-rh6qy]

So Jephthah actually gave his daughter to serve God as a virgin. I.e as a living sacrifice not a burnt offering

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Yes, based upon the stories that would have been available to Jephthah at the time, the Law of God, also known by the tribes, the evidence points to Jephthah's daughter becoming a living sacrifice, serving the Lord for the rest of her life.

[@toniannsandford2715]

That’s not true tho u are watering it down to make it seem like God wasn’t the bad guy. Stop watering it down. God is kinda a bitch in the OT - he took her as a sacrifice just like he gave Miriam blisters.

[@drsquash2003]

Nice apologetic for an evil God

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

Thank you for taking the time to write your thought. I'm not quite sure what you mean, though from the context it sounds like your impression of God is not good. It can be hard work to remain self-aware about personal biases, owning the ones we have, and choosing the ones we're willing to let go of, however temporarily, in order the learn something new. One of our kids decided to major in materials science engineering in college, and her freshman class in physics began with the alarming announcement that everything she'd learned in high school was just plain wrong. That physics, applied as well as theoretical, was far too difficult for high schoolers to understand, so a simplified (and wrong) version is taught just to get across basic ideas. She was floored, realizing she was going to have to unlearn everything she knew in order to learn what her class had for her. But that's how I've approached reading the stories about women in the Bible. I've had to let go of what I'd been taught and told in order to see what's really there. And what's there is a very good God who is willing to love and work with really flawed people.

[@drsquash2003]

@GraceandPeaceJoanne hey thank you for the reply. Points for audience engagement. I haven't gone to school for theology or history. But I can read. My criticism is that much of what you glean when reading the biblical text, you supplement with other sources about those times and cultures, rather than simply reading what the text actually says. I haven't looked into the meaning behind the hebrew word you cited for a burnt offering and its alternative use. And i will later after work. I think the text clearly implies that he performed a physical sacrifice to God, but even if Jeptha didn't follow through with a burnt offering of his daughter, there are still 40 thousand reasons why Jeptha was a terrible evil warlord that should have been condemned if there is a good and just God.

[@GraceandPeaceJoanne]

I see what you mean. Yes, "reading what the text actually says" is harder than one might think. The oldest texts are in Hebrew, and Greek (the Septuagint). The English text is a heroic effort of scholars trying to get across a readable translation that is as faithful as possible to the actual words, and meaning. But consider how hard that is, with thousands of years in between us and the writer (and audience) and the wildly different cultures between us and them. Culture shapes us, including our language. Even today, international diplomacy is a very careful, mindful discipline because of the sometimes terrible gaffes that cause real problems that can happen one one is ignorant of the other's culture and language. Even in English, we can unwittingly offend between American English and British English. So that's why I try to give context, and look at the actual words of the text, not just the English words, and hope to bring across a better idea of what the text actually says, and actually means. I appreciate you giving me a chance to say all that. I'd have wanted to know all those things before I went to seminary. And I, too, value reading what the text really says.