Saturday, August 31, 2013

August 31, 2013 – 1 Maccabees 14:25 – 14:49

You wonder what the Jews that had sided with the Greeks and left the traditional Israelites were doing when Israel goes back to Simon and makes him leader.  He appears to follow in his father’s footsteps in trying to lead Israel in the way God taught.  Maybe those Jews that had faltered were dead in battles or just completely abandoned Israel for other lands.  There seems to be no dissidents in the words that are put on the plague.

The inscription talks a lot about Simon, I guess because he is the one that is there when it is written, but from our view and reading this account, Judas and Jonathon had a lot more to do with this success than they are given credit for.  I guess that is the way history is.  I mean, the great recession is all on Obama’s clock, so he has taken full responsibility for it happening.  Bush hasn’t received any of the blame because it didn’t happen to him.  No, wait, that isn’t how I remember it being reported.  Maybe only positive things in history work that way.

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