The Genocide Of The Amalekites

If you read the Bible, you realize that the Amalekites attacked the Hebrews and did not attack the front end where the men were, but attacked where the women and children were. In other words, they attacked the weak. So they were a nation of cowards and were used by Satan to try to wipe out the ancestor of the Christ. Think about it. They attacked the Hebrews before they entered the Promised Land. The ancestor of the Christ was with the Hebrews in the wilderness and Rahab the ancestress of the Christ was in Jericho that they had not reached yet. Therefore for hoping for the saving of the infants and children of the Amalekites, you were hoping that Christ would not come and save us from our sins. Also you have no idea how the Amalekites raised their children. We as good parents make sure that our children share and are considerate of the weak, but any child that showed those traits would have been killed before they had a chance to reproduce. There is something about nature and nurture. I read a discussion about a couple who adopted a baby whose father was a criminal and that boy showed the same traits. and the parents were besides themselves because they raised the boy to be loving and caring as they had been raised. Therefore already the Amalekites were already showing signs of their evil nature even in infancy. So God, in HIS righteous judgment ordered the annihilation of the whole nation.

Any reasonable person would have a problem with this. That is why Israel often disobeyed. But, in this world, and at at my age; seeing what I have seen of the evil in men's hearts and how awful the deeds of some are...I am beginning to understand and have faith that God does know best and we humans have only succeeded in making a mess of our time here on earth. We try and try to solve the problem of SIN and only make it worse with our limited understanding of how evil works. This is not to say that humans should try and second guess GOD and use His word as an excuse to kill. But I do think that this was a different age than what we are in living in.

The idea was to prevent future attacks from those same 2 year olds. Actually, this is very similar to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, which resulted in turning Lots wife into a pillar of salt merely for looking back at the destruction. The destruction of the Amalikites was ordered by God because they had became too evil after many years of opportunities to change. The reason the Israelites could not save the young was because they were forbidden to... they were ordered to destroy everyone. Even then they did not do it immediately. http://www.rationalchristianity.net/amalekites.html