In 1 Samuel 15:1-9, God orders the Israelites to attack and destroy the Amalekites. He orders them to kill not only the men but also the women, children, and babies. As to why, we are only told that it is because the ancestors of the Amalekites attacked the Israelites when they were coming from Egypt. The Israelites obey God’s command. They destroy the city of Amalek and kill all the people except the king. These nine verses collectively calibrate at 152, the level of Anger (1 Samuel overall calibrates at 156).
Unfortunately, we aren’t told the full story about the kind of people the Amalekites were. They had a violent and depraved culture. They were attacking the Israelites unprovoked, with the intention of wiping out every last one of them. The Amalekites had been given plenty of time to repent (over a century), but they refused.
With muscle testing, we can confirm that all these things about the Amalekites are true. We can also confirm that the Israelites did indeed destroy them. However, contrary to scripture, God did not order the Israelites to carry out this action. There is another reason why the Amalekites suffered the dire fate that they did.
Karma.
This is the ancient Indian concept that everything we do has a ripple effect. Whatever we put out into the world ultimately comes back to us. If we commit immoral actions and hurt others, we are setting ourselves up to experience a similar fate, either in this lifetime or in a future one.
The Amalekites had accrued so much negative karma that they were ultimately brought down by their own hands. The Israelites were acting out of self-defense and thus were justified in their actions. With muscle testing, we can also confirm that the king of the Amalekites was not the sole survivor, and that the women and children were also spared.
Now, imagine if 1 Samuel had explained the conflict between the Israelites and the Amalekites the way that I just did. Imagine if all of the battles that the Israelites fought were explained like this.
Imagine if God, throughout the Old Testament, instead of threatening to rain destruction down on people, or put boils on people’s skin, or give them disease, or starve and scatter them, had simply told the Israelites, Amalekites, and other tribes about karma? What if He had simply told them that they would eventually bring themselves down by their own hands? Wouldn’t this have accomplished the same thing, but without all the anger and vengeance?
If the writers of the Old Testament had taken this approach, the Bible would calibrate much higher than it currently does, and Christianity would be far better off.
Unfortunately, we aren’t told the full story about the kind of people the Amalekites were. They had a violent and depraved culture. They were attacking the Israelites unprovoked, with the intention of wiping out every last one of them. The Amalekites had been given plenty of time to repent (over a century), but they refused.
With muscle testing, we can confirm that all these things about the Amalekites are true. We can also confirm that the Israelites did indeed destroy them. However, contrary to scripture, God did not order the Israelites to carry out this action. There is another reason why the Amalekites suffered the dire fate that they did.
Karma.
This is the ancient Indian concept that everything we do has a ripple effect. Whatever we put out into the world ultimately comes back to us. If we commit immoral actions and hurt others, we are setting ourselves up to experience a similar fate, either in this lifetime or in a future one.
The Amalekites had accrued so much negative karma that they were ultimately brought down by their own hands. The Israelites were acting out of self-defense and thus were justified in their actions. With muscle testing, we can also confirm that the king of the Amalekites was not the sole survivor, and that the women and children were also spared.
Now, imagine if 1 Samuel had explained the conflict between the Israelites and the Amalekites the way that I just did. Imagine if all of the battles that the Israelites fought were explained like this.
Imagine if God, throughout the Old Testament, instead of threatening to rain destruction down on people, or put boils on people’s skin, or give them disease, or starve and scatter them, had simply told the Israelites, Amalekites, and other tribes about karma? What if He had simply told them that they would eventually bring themselves down by their own hands? Wouldn’t this have accomplished the same thing, but without all the anger and vengeance?
If the writers of the Old Testament had taken this approach, the Bible would calibrate much higher than it currently does, and Christianity would be far better off.