Similarity between Sarah Palin & Debora in the Book of Judges?

[Jackeens]

I know, I know, I shouldn't be contaminating myself - and passing on the bug to you - by dropping in to that Free Rep place, but after Palin's performance tonight I couldn't resist. :rofl:

This was my very favourite post.....I'm weepin' here!



Subject: Is there a similarity between Sarah Palin and Debora in the Book of Judges?

Since Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen for John McCain's running mate, we have heard criticism of her, as a mother, "who should be home taking care of her children"... Here is how I feel about this statement:

Have you read the book of Judges? It is very interesting, and I think it applies to us in these very days.

Here is the story (paraphrased):

God called Debora out to be a judge in those days of trouble in Israel. This was not the norm. This was the exception, because this was the need of the day. It is interesting to note the capacity in which God used Debora to bring His people back to Him, and to victory.

According to Debora, the streets weren't safe for people to go out, without being mugged, murdered or assaulted (sound familiar?).

So Debora called God's combat General, Barac, and she said "Didn't God give us victory? Why aren't you standing up and conquering the enemy"?

Barac said "You are right; I'll do it if you will go with us". Debora did go with him, but she didn't actually go into battle. She sat on a hill, and Barac knew that as long as Debora was there on that hill, God's presence and power would also be there.

Interestingly, when Debora sang her song of praise for victory, she didn't boast and say "we had a victory when I arose as a champion", or "we had victory when I arose as a leader. or when I arose as a judge".

In Chapter 5, verse 7, she praised God for the victory saying "When I, Debora, arose as a mother"..

Debora was humbled at the power of God that took the heart of faith, of a mother, and changed a nation of captives to a nation of victors!

Therefore, in view of so many American men who have been emasculated by liberal American women, and who are afraid to stand up to these hate-filled women... (these are the same women who advocate for other women killing their own unborn children, for sexual promiscuity, and much more that is against God), how do we know that God isn't using Sarah Palin, a mother of five, to bring this nation back to God?

It would not be an unprecedented act for God to have used the heart of a mother to change the heart of a nation which had rejected him! In the evil of a nation which has turned it's back on God, and specifically the things I just mentioned, I believe that it will take a woman (who has the heart of a mother) to bring us back to God!

I believe that this is exactly what God is doing, and that through this mother, and through His mercy, he is giving America another chance (not that we are deserving of another chance)!


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[napoleon_in_rags]

1. So Debora called God's combat General, Barac, and she said "Didn't God give us victory?

(insert witty line here about what Barac(k) says to Palin...)

[TygrBright]

2. Is Deborah the one who nailed some guy's head to the floor?

Because I could TOTALLY see Sarah doing that...

curiously,
Bright

[zeemike]

4. No that was Jael that did that

But you are right Palin is more like Jael than Debora

"And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time."
Palin is no prophetess.

[grantcart]

3. Neither could name an English language newspaper that they had read?