The truth is, it is a mystery. who is creation’s roar behind all sound, Yes I am dead like a truth that is sweet, Wind increases it will take all your strength soaking the wordless stone Thus Israel subdued Ammon. How are we to transform mourning into joy? Jephthah’s daughter could only have wished for what you have right now—a new reality in Christ Jesus that welcomes all into full participation without distinction. I believe what G-D says is what is. a rock an outstretched arm his enemies fled These imbecilities make us, too, writhe as if bound upon an altar. Yes I am nameless, Yes my father was a very great warrior But remember, he had made a promise. Such as a father. Perhaps that was Jephthah’s intention—that she hear it and so take warning not to come out of the house first. Some believe that women vowed to God became the source of these workers. –Perhaps the story has been edited, perhaps the daughter was a priestess, perhaps the vow was not an accident: what then? So while I like the plucky heroin depicted in the Midrash, it contradicts the Torah. Especially a vow to God. But before going into battle, he seeks a guarantee of success by vowing to YHWH that if victory is granted to him, he will sacrifice to YHWH “whoever [whatever] comes out” of his house first on his return from the fight 11:31). (Romans 12:1-2). Though she began as a pure virgin, characterized by self-sacrificing love and devotion,18 she became a harlot, characterized by selfishness, strife, jealousy, immorality, and violence, using worldly power and influence to sustain herself.19 Rather than being a light to the nations, she has brought great darkness to the whole earth, though smugly, she calls it light.20 That is why, after almost 2000 years, Messiah has not returned, and the Father’s promise to Abraham has not been fulfilled. It was God Himself, and His vow was to Abraham: 7 And He said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”, 8 But he said, “O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”, 9 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 10 And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other… 11 And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. The entire personality is consumed on the altar, as in the example of our Master Yahshua. Do you believe we are strident? For Jephthah, Yahweh was only one God among many. The purpose of the grain offering is never directly stated, but it appears to be used to express thankfulness to God (Leviticus 2; 6:14-23). smallest flame in a domestic oven or wood stove, In such a reality she would have lived and flourished. For all his ways are justice. Down the collapsed mineshaft of time we call until our voices grow hoarse, we are coming though we delay. From this comes the Israelite tradition that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite. (Romans 12:1-2). Treated as guilty by her father! is in their twittering If anyone is not willing to present himself in total surrender, it shows that he is not ready to have communion with Him. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Nothing holds us back from making this choice. And animals were a common object of sacrifice in ancient Israel.). Pennsylvania: If this prophetic vision stirs your heart, and you hate your life in this world, please come and help us bring this evil age to an end. Each states her own name. This message is here mediated primarily through the victimization of a woman. There can be no doubt that Abraham was actually in motion to take his son’s life, being fully persuaded that his God was able to raise Isaac from the dead to fulfill His promise.3 But God did not require it of him, providing instead a ram for the burnt offering. Not his only daughter! The burnt offering, grain offering, and peace offering were offered by individuals at appointed occasions, such as feasts, as the fulfillment of a vow, or as a freewill offering (Numbers 16:3; 29:39). Consider how the story begins, “Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah… and Jephthah made a vow to the Lord.” How then could it have been a rash vow unless we are ready to accuse God Himself of being rash? whereby matter returns to spirit, with one’s own ecstatic eyes– Something so relinquished. II Chronicles 31:14 speaks of a man appointed to oversee the usage of freewill offerings. Yes the spirit of the Lord came upon him – Maimonides, there is It is made sacred by sacrificing it. 11 But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.” 12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” (Genesis 22:1,2,9-12).