Modern Application of 1 Maccabees 2:6-13
1 Maccabees 2:6-13
6. When he [Mattathias] saw the sacrileges that were being committed in Judah and in Jerusalem,
7. he said: "Woe is me! Why was I born to see the ruin of my people and the rein of the holy city, and to sit idle while it is given into the hands of enemies, and the sanctuary into the hands of strangers?
8. "Her temple has become like a man disgraced,
9. her glorious ornaments have been carried off as spoils, Her infants have been murdered in her streets, and her young men by the sword of the enemy.
10. What nation has not taken its share of her realm, and laid its hand on her possessions?
11. All her adornment has been taken away. From being free, she has become a slave.
12. We see our sanctuary and our beauty and our glory laid waste, And the Gentiles have defiled them!
13. Why are we still alive?"
Every man sees the Fall again in his own time. It must always seem to be the worst time of all, or have just been so, from one's own eyes. In the last 50 years, we've seen so many gains of women with simultaneous intellectual and physical ruin.
"Her temple has become like a man disgraced" for the beauty and sanctity of what was truly feminine has been rejected in favor of what is a man's, disgracing both. How long will she repeat not only her own sins and weaknesses, but those that are particularly masculine too? Power, lust, isolation.
Since feminine objectification is rejected, her ornaments and beauties have been deemed of no true worth at all. Instead they are abused, stolen and neglected.
Her infants are murdered on the streets of abortion and in the laboratories of progress. Her brothers in soul by the sensual sword of sameness and domination.
In every nation are prostitutes sold and enslaved. Greedy hands laid immodestly on her physical body, tearing through to her soul.
No beauty is found in the adornments of essential femininity. Far from being "free" under the call of women's liberation, she has become a slave to her own deceived ideas and masculine temptations.
All that is true about sexuality and gender, it's goodness, beauty and wonderous meaning, has been laid waste and rejected for homogeneity, false equality, and a misguided search for truth.
And all who reject the Way are Gentiles in a sense - lost contributers to our destruction in the name of our liberation.
We are alive to pray, realize and redeem the humble glory God had intended for us.
6. When he [Mattathias] saw the sacrileges that were being committed in Judah and in Jerusalem,
7. he said: "Woe is me! Why was I born to see the ruin of my people and the rein of the holy city, and to sit idle while it is given into the hands of enemies, and the sanctuary into the hands of strangers?
8. "Her temple has become like a man disgraced,
9. her glorious ornaments have been carried off as spoils, Her infants have been murdered in her streets, and her young men by the sword of the enemy.
10. What nation has not taken its share of her realm, and laid its hand on her possessions?
11. All her adornment has been taken away. From being free, she has become a slave.
12. We see our sanctuary and our beauty and our glory laid waste, And the Gentiles have defiled them!
13. Why are we still alive?"
Every man sees the Fall again in his own time. It must always seem to be the worst time of all, or have just been so, from one's own eyes. In the last 50 years, we've seen so many gains of women with simultaneous intellectual and physical ruin.
"Her temple has become like a man disgraced" for the beauty and sanctity of what was truly feminine has been rejected in favor of what is a man's, disgracing both. How long will she repeat not only her own sins and weaknesses, but those that are particularly masculine too? Power, lust, isolation.
Since feminine objectification is rejected, her ornaments and beauties have been deemed of no true worth at all. Instead they are abused, stolen and neglected.
Her infants are murdered on the streets of abortion and in the laboratories of progress. Her brothers in soul by the sensual sword of sameness and domination.
In every nation are prostitutes sold and enslaved. Greedy hands laid immodestly on her physical body, tearing through to her soul.
No beauty is found in the adornments of essential femininity. Far from being "free" under the call of women's liberation, she has become a slave to her own deceived ideas and masculine temptations.
All that is true about sexuality and gender, it's goodness, beauty and wonderous meaning, has been laid waste and rejected for homogeneity, false equality, and a misguided search for truth.
And all who reject the Way are Gentiles in a sense - lost contributers to our destruction in the name of our liberation.
We are alive to pray, realize and redeem the humble glory God had intended for us.
posted by Silabella @ 7:40 AM
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