I Kings Part VI: Just a Few Questions

Just a Spoonful of Religion Helps the Mayhem Go Down

What better way can the absurdities of religion be explained than through the bloodshot, jaundiced eyes of the Bible, hummm? I mean, the Bible makes SO much sense of everything that goes on in the world every day, right? The Bible explains terrorists, wars, famines, plagues, judgments, mega floods, tsunamis, genocide, sin...all of the bad things in the world are defined by the Bible, made easier to understand by what the Bible says.

You no longer have to worry about why psychopathic religious zealots aim to kill the Infidel people of a country known as the Great Satan by flying loaded airliners into buildings. You no longer have to worry about why some spiritual nutcase convinces his followers to release a lethal toxin in a loaded subway terminal. You no longer have to worry about a fledgling economy, a polluted ocean, melting glaciers, sinkholes that tear the earth a mouth and swallow houses whole, or outbreaks of Ebola. The WHOLE THING is all a very special plan conceived and contrived by none other than God.

So, when things in life are haywire and crazy some people who are believers experience or are part of or witness bad crap happening, and when as a result of such they are posed with questions asking where this all-powerful loving God was when the poo-poo hit the fan, what do they say? It is ALL a plot of God. This is how many Christians/believers cope with mayhem, tragedy they cannot understand, right? They just grab a couple Bible verses and confidently announce whatever is happening is from God. Why is there war? God. Why is there abuse? God. Whatever mayhem God has created, no worries. The Bible says God will fix it. 

That's right. Apparently God is trying like hell to teach mankind the lessons needed in order to get into heaven upon death, and the best proof of this is the Bible. Look at the freaky-doo crap God/the LORD is responsible for and then consider His reasoning: I'm just trying to save man. 

So whenever Christians cannot explain away something that challenges their belief system or something that scares them they automatically claim they are being tested by God, that whatever craziness is going on it is all part of God's/the LORD's will to bring the Kingdom of God back to earth. Then in an effort to validate the claims of God's wacko plan some people crack open their Bible and happily begin to point out all the times in the Bible (especially Old Testament) where God/the LORD's  victories came by way of totally senseless messages from God in some form or other, right?

People don't want to think that much in the world is their fault and their best diversion is religion...

....It is all a plot by God/the LORD, right? If the world is falling apart, cracking in two, it really doesn't matter because the Bible says it is God's plan. As you read these verses and questions I want you to think about how some of those who believe in God behave when something screwy in their personal life or in the world happens, and they do not understand it. Instead of looking into themselves to consider what should be changed they say it is God's plan. 

And a surprising number of people are happy with that. I do not understand this. The ridiculousness of these verses is so bizarre you would never in a million years want Whoever wrote or inspired them to plan anything in your life, would you? I don't care what the mayhem may be or why the mayhem may be. Forget taking a spoonful of any of this craziness.

1. I Kings 14:1

1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people.

3 Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.”

4 Jeroboam’s wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

5 And the LORD said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.” When she came, she pretended to be another woman.

6 But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with unbearable news for you.

Questions
     1) Sooo...this woman knew this guy was a prophet, a person who possessed a gift/power to discern things many people would not, and decides to try to trick him into thinking she is some other woman? This woman and her husband thought this was a GOOD plan?

2. I Kings 14:8
8 I ripped the kingdom away from the family of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like my servant David, who obeyed my commands and followed me with all his heart and always did whatever I wanted.

9 but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and metal images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back,

Questions
     1) Why is God complaining that He has been cast behind someone's back? Doesn't He remember what He did to the prophet in the previous chapter when He purposely set Him up for failure? What did God do to the prophet He killed in that story, hummm? He LEFT the prophet's carcass cast upon the road like garbage, right? God has NO business scolding man, for man is not perfect (according to God) and thus is prone to mistake and ill behavior, BUT GOD is perfect (well, supposed to be perfect) and HE is the One casting the most valuable and precious things (like life and people) hither and thither as though He didn't give a damn, correct?

3. I Kings 14:10
10 I will bring disaster on your dynasty and will destroy every one of your male descendants, slave and free alike, anywhere in Israel. I will burn up your royal dynasty as one burns up trash until it is all gone.

11 Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat, for the LORD has spoken it.”’

12 Arise therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.

Questions
     1) Anyone for a nice warm cup of suffer the little children unto me?

     2) Oh look! Verse ten very clearly conveys God's willful treatment of human beings as trash, correct?

     3) Why is God punishing more than just the person who did the wrong? Isn't this unjust?

     4) The child will die when she re-enters the city? Sooo...this woman comes to this holy man to inquire of the holy man, right? This man can intercede on behalf of the people and ask God for help, and God can certainly heal the child, but what does He do?

     5) Why does God withhold healing from the child as punishment for the deeds of the child's father? Is that balanced justice?

4. I Kings 14:13
13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only member of your family who will have a proper burial, for this child is the only good thing that the LORD, the God of Israel, sees in the entire family of Jeroboam.

Questions
     1) Sooo...the child is actually a GOOD person/being BUT this apparently means crap to God Who is intent on making somebody die for what the child's father has done?

     2) You know, when Jesus dies on the cross He also had done nothing, correct?

     3) When God mentions acceptable sacrifice in the Bible it is always blemish-free, isn't it? Always, right? Whatever is sacrificed must be in a state of perfection and innocence, correct?

     4) How many times in the Bible are innocent children put to death, or threatened to be put to death? I mean, Abraham was told to sacrifice Isaac, Pharaoh supposedly drowned the Hebrew babies that were boys in the River Nile, King Herod ordered oodles of babies killed in an effort to kill the newborn King of the Jews, children and infants were regularly killed by the warring people of Israel in the Old Testament, and surely you have not forgotten any of the children or infants murdered by God during the Flood...seriously, are you surprised with what God does here to this child?

     5) God has the nerve to detest the people who pass their children to the flames of Molek, but throughout the Bible God sacrifices children and it is okay? How does this work? Another 'God works in mysterious ways' thing that mere mortals have trouble understanding?

     6) Sooo...if God knew all of this crap was going to happen before He even laid the foundations of the earth...err, actually He planned it all...can't it be argued that God is guilty of first degree murder, on a massive scale at that?

5. I Kings 14:21
21 Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

Questions
     1) Exactly what does the LORD/God mean by saying He specifically picked Jerusalem from all of Israel to hold His name? Does He mean AFTER the people of Israel took possession of the city of Jerusalem that the LORD/God choose it as the city to carry His name?

     2) The city of Jerusalem wasn't originally among the people of Israel, was it? Who originally founded the city of Jerusalem, the forefathers of Abraham OR the proto-Canaanites? What does the archeology say about it?

6. I Kings 14:26
26 He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house. He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made,

Questions
     1) The treasures of the house of the LORD/God belong to God/the LORD, correct? How does one take what belongs to God? Wouldn't taking something from God, even for the length of time of a second, wouldn't that taking from God indicate He CAN be beaten or defeated, that He isn't so goddamn powerful after all?

7. I Kings 15:3
3 And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

Questions
   1) Why does the Bible continue to assert that David was true to the LORD/God? Didn't David kill, steal, covet his neighbor's wife, commit adultery, lie, gave false witness...I mean the guy was a trainwreck when it came to following the Ten Commandments, right?

   2) Sooo...tell me again HOW David was true to the LORD, because so far you have shown nothing. I suppose you could say that David was true to the LORD in the sense that the LORD says everyone sins and BOY oh BOY did David sin, or what?

8. I Kings 15: 5
5 For David had done what was pleasing in the LORD's sight and had obeyed the LORD's commands throughout his life, except in the affair concerning Uriah the Hittite.

Questions
     1) Well, this is very interesting, isn't it? Sooo...the only thing that went wrong for David was the Bathsheba debacle? I don't think so. Remember when David got into trouble for taking the census, amongst other things?

9. I Kings 15:7
7 The rest of the events in Abijam's reign and everything he did are recorded in [The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.] There was constant war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

Questions
     1) Shouldn't this verse say something more along the lines of Where the LORD/God is, so is there also perpetual war?

    2) Explain to me HOW all of the war and misfortune and sorrow and disaster and destruction that God/the LORD so generously piles upon those who aimlessly follow Him fits into a grand plan to express divine love for man from God?

    3) I don't understand why this great, mega-powerful God chooses to show love through death and destruction, sadistic situations, and perverse punishments when He has the power and ability to show His love...through love, do you?

10. I Kings 15:12
12 He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Questions
     1) Sooo...did they keep the female prostitutes? Why only get rid of the males?

11. I Kings 15:14
14 Although the pagan shrines were not removed, Asa's heart remained completely faithful to the LORD throughout his life. 

Questions
     1) Sooo...the idols were NOT gone but he remained faithful? How does that work? Didn't the LORD/God say to Jacob in the book of Genesis to have his family remove all of the idols and purify themselves? Sooo...again, if the idols are not removed how is this guy completely faithful to the LORD?

     2) Isn't this verse like saying, Sure, I enjoy two packs of cigarettes a week, but I'm a dedicated non-smoker?

12. I Kings 15:26
26 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.

Questions
     1) Clearly this man did not make Israel sin, right? God needs to pay a little more attention to the stuff He says, correct? Didn't God say that man sins continually/is born into sin/cannot help but to sin? Sin IS a given with man, correct? Considering that, isn't it absolutely retarded for God or any of God's personalities to claim that any one person or group of people made anyone else to sin?

13. I Kings 16:1-2
1 And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

2 “Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,

3 So now I will destroy you and your family, just as I destroyed the descendants of Jeroboam son of Nebat.

Questions
     1) Dude, the LORD/God seriously needs to get a different line that He uses as an excuse to play murderous games with His chosen people, right? The "I Chose Him But Look How He Turned Out" game is so goddamn old it is no longer interesting, correct? Besides, we all know that in reality God knew all along that whoever botched up was going to botch up. Does God really think He can get away with pretending like He was an innocent bystander Who was hoping against hope that His choice of man would turn out to be a good one?


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I Samuel Part I: Just a Few Questions

Dear Lord, We Need a King

Something different is afoot in I Samuel, yes? What is it? Well, we have gone from man trying to lord over himself in the perfect Garden of Eden and failing (actually, that experiment went over like a fart in church), then you have man trying to do things kinda-sorta on his own in a not-so-forgiving environment that included a stubborn ground that was supposed to produce food and where man ended mucking things up even more (Yes, GREAT job with Cain killing his brother Abel, right?), then you have this mega flood and Noah on his floating asylum and God/the LORD making a covenant that seemed somewhat difficult for both sides of the deal to keep (although God seems to blame it ALL on man), then you have a series of judges (to include those that would shred a young lion with his bare hands...lovely), and THEN you get something completely new: KINGS. So, would the people of Israel, God's/the LORD's chosen people, do any better under the leadership of a king?

I Samuel is where an already interesting path of Bible-lore becomes even more interesting. Of course this increase in 'interesting' information on this totally whacked path does absolutely nothing to cull the number of questions that just keep springing up with every book in the Bible.

Though all of the questions that continue to grow in number, and even a few of them in depth and width, it would do you well to remember that it is not necessary for you to answer EVERY question. No. What purpose would that serve you? These are MY questions. These are the reasons why I do not believe. It does not have to be the same for you.

Perhaps you would have less questions. Perhaps more questions. Maybe even you hold that you have NO questions. If that is the case I would really REALLY like for you to leave a message or comment. I personally find it very difficult to think a person could trudge through the books of the Bible and NOT have questions, but like I just said that is me.

However, if you truly believe these stories don't be shy. For Pete's sake answer some questions. If you really and truly think these stories are true then stand up for what you think is true, dammit! Stand up for what you believe! Say why you think and believe these stories to be true. DEFEND these stories, DEFEND what you believe...and make sense doing it.


1. I Samuel 1:2, 5-6

2 He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

5 But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the LORD had closed her womb.

6 And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.

Questions
     1) What is it with the LORD closing the wombs of the women that are loved more by the man whom they share with another woman as a husband?

     2) Why would the LORD/God close the womb of the woman who is loved more?

     3) Is the LORD/God penalizing love by closing the womb of the woman who is loved more?

     4) What would be the purpose of penalizing the woman who is loved more, to even the playing field?

     5) If the LORD/God is penalizing love, and if GOD is supposed to be love, is He then penalizing Himself? Is that even possible?

2. I Samuel 1:8

8 And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”

Questions
     1) Okay, OBVIOUSLY during these 'Bible times' it was immensely important to women personally that they bare children, right? Surely Hannah's husband knew this, right?

     2) Did this man really think that telling his childless wife (who desperately wants children, remember) that he is more to her than ten sons would help to alleviate her sorrow? What is it with some men having a knack for saying the stupidest shit at the worst times? I mean, I am sure many of them MEAN well, but damn...sometimes it just isn't there, you know?

3. I Samuel 1:11, 13-14

11 And she vowed a vow and said, “O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”

13 Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman.

14 And Eli said to her, “How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.”

Questions
     1) Why does it seem that God/the LORD goes out of His way to put people in positions where they feel the need to promise the LORD just about anything (to include the life of another person) so long as they get what they want?

     2) Isn't this willingness to promise anything to get what they want similar to selling their soul to the devil, except in this case they are selling the soul of another to God?

     3) Do you really think the logistics of selling your soul (or the soul of another) to God is any different than doing so with the devil?

     4) Wouldn't selling your soul to God/the LORD be worse than selling your soul to the devil since God/the LORD can control your free will (like He did with Pharaoh in Egypt when He kept hardening Pharaoh's heart to not let the people of Israel go)?

4. I Samuel 1:19

19 They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her.

Questions
     1) The LORD remembered her? Had He forgotten her?

5. I Samuel 1:22

22 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the LORD and dwell there forever.”

Questions
     1) The child is already in the presence of the LORD, correct? Isn't the LORD everywhere at all times?

6. I Samuel 1:28

28 Now I am giving him to the LORD, and he will belong to the LORD his whole life." And they worshiped the LORD there.

Questions
     1) You DO remember what I said about free will being affected adversely when it comes to making promises with God, right?

     2) What do we have here but the free will of this boy being affected from the very beginning, right? Someone else is making the decision to serve the LORD for him, correct?

     3) Do you understand the problem with free will and personal choice that is evident here?

7. I Samuel 2:1

1 Then Hannah prayed: "My heart rejoices in the LORD! The LORD has made me strong. Now I have an answer for my enemies; I rejoice because you rescued me.

Questions
     1) Don't you think it is immensely interesting how these people always seem to think that the LORD is rescuing them from the very situations that He Himself has caused?

8. I Samuel 2:2

2 No one is holy like the LORD! There is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.

Questions
     1) And WHY do these people say that no one is holy like the LORD? Isn't it because the LORD has told them no one is holy like the LORD? How do they even know there is no one holy like the LORD if the LORD is the only being ever to tell them this? Do you see the self-serving nature of the LORD in this circular reasoning?

     2) You mean there is no rock like our God since talking to Him sometimes is like talking to a rock, right?

9. I Samuel 2:3

3 Stop acting so proud and haughty! Don't speak with such arrogance! For the LORD is a God who knows what you have done; he will judge your actions.

Questions
     1) How can this verse say that the LORD judges actions when what REALLY happens is He assesses and responds out of ANGER each and every time WITHOUT FAIL?

     2) Man already believes by this point in the Bible that he is useless and worthless without God/the LORD, so considering that WHO is really the One Who is being proud and haughty and arrogant, hummm?

10. I Samuel 2:9

9 He will protect his faithful ones, but the wicked will disappear in darkness. No one will succeed by strength alone.

Questions
     1) Of course no one will succeed by strength alone, and do you know why? Because there is this voon-der-bar fellow named GOD who just loves to stir the pot and fuck things up as much as possible, right?

     2) And what kind of things, people, situations has this GOD fellow fucked up? Do not telling Adam and Eve about the serpent or the meaning of "you shall surely die" and all of that garden lingo, NOT telling Cain about what offerings were and were not acceptable (which led to the death of Abel, remember), NOT providing the people with OTHER people who were not their brothers or sisters to have children with (God seems to have been a real champion for incest), and NOT allowing Pharaoh to make his own decision inasmuch as letting the people of Israel go was concerned ALL QUALIFY as God purposely fucking things up instead of allowing man to practice doing great things with his own strength, or what?

11. I Samuel 2:10

10 Those who fight against the LORD will be shattered. He thunders against them from heaven; the LORD judges throughout the earth. He gives power to his king; he increases the strength of his anointed one.

Questions
     1) And why do those who fight against the LORD end up shattered? Do you REALLY think it is because they were always in the wrong? Really?

     2) And what, pray tell (pun intended), is the small print of the part about giving power to His king?

     3) Isn't it true that whenever God/the LORD 'gives' any amount of power to anyone all it truly is is the power to do only those things which God/the LORD wants for His own glory?

     4) The LORD's anointed one is only anointed to the point that he does everything that the LORD requests, isn't that true?

12. I Samuel 2:17

17 So the sin of these young men was very serious in the LORD's sight, for they treated the LORD's offerings with contempt.

Questions
     1) Treated the LORD's offerings with contempt, eh? Maybe it is about time someone give senor LORD a little taste of His own behavior, right? Perhaps now the LORD can get a feel for what He did to Cain when He refused Cain's offering of veggies that he busted his ass to get the ground to produce?

13. I Samuel 2:19

19 Each year his mother made a small coat for him and brought it to him when she came with her husband for the sacrifice.

Questions
     1) This is a totally twisted picture drawn here, right? Sooo...every year when she brings her son a coat she can remember what the TRUE sacrifice is in this story, right?

     2) And what exactly is the true sacrifice here, hummm? Isn't it the sacrifice of the FULL joys of motherhood in exchange for being able to have just the one son, and for a very short portion of his life at that?

     3) Who is this terribly selfish God who does not allow a mother the full portion of the experience of being a nurturing individual?

     4) Do these problems with the women who are loved more by men, the same women being able to bare children and these women promising any children they might have to God have anything to do with there NEVER being a mention of a mothering aspect of the supposedly divine God?

     5) Is God sad and mad, lonely and depressed because He did not have a mother to love Him and look out for Him and nurture Him?

14. I Samuel 2:20-21

20 Before they returned home, Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, "May the LORD give you other children to take the place of this one she gave to the LORD."

21 And the LORD gave Hannah three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.

Questions
     1) Sooo...is the twisted little message here that since Hannah sacrificed her first son and her role as mother to her first son, that the LORD appreciated her follow-through on her sacrificial promise and so gave her more children?

     2) Essentially, the lesson here is that if a person is willing to sacrifice another person...especially their own child...the LORD will reward them in ways they never expected?

     3) Isn't this suspiciously like the story of God telling Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, and when God saw that Abe would really do it God saved Isaac and promised Abe nations and many descendants (descendants that would number as the stars, no less)?

15. I Samuel 2:22-23

22 Now Eli was very old, but he was aware of what his sons were doing to the people of Israel. He knew, for instance, that his sons were seducing the young women who assisted at the entrance of the Tabernacle.

23 Eli said to them, "I have been hearing reports from all the people about the wicked things you are doing. Why do you keep sinning?

Questions
     1) Sooo...could this scenario in modern-times be equated with the televangelists and preachers that seduce some of the members of their congregation? Ever hear of Jimmy Swaggart, Jimmy Bakker, David Koresh, and other religious leaders who seduce members of their flock, or members of other social groups?

     2) Sooo...being as though God knows EVERYTHING and thus knows of all the wicked things that the above mentioned douchebags do...why does He continue to allow people in these types of religious leadership positions to do crap like that?

     3) At least Eli can say he was very old, even though he WAS aware. What is God's excuse? He has been around longer than anyone, but since He is supposed to be timeless He can't use His 'age' as an excuse, right?

16. I Samuel 2:25

25 If someone sins against another person, God can mediate for the guilty party. But if someone sins against the LORD, who can intercede?" But Eli's sons wouldn't listen to their father, for the LORD was already planning to put them to death.

Questions
     1) Since God is supposed to be omnipotent/all-powerful wouldn't HE be the One Who intercedes on behalf of a man?

     2) When it says that the LORD was already planning to put them to death and that Eli's sons wouldn't listen...does that mean like what God/the LORD did to Pharaoh when God wanted to wax a bunch of Egyptians, and so purposely made Pharaoh to harden his heart? Did the LORD purposely make Eli's sons ignore their father so He could kill them?

     3) If all things are possible with God then wouldn't intercession on behalf of an erring human always be possible? Didn't God's own people know this?

17. I Samuel 2:26

26 Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew taller and grew in favor with the LORD and with the people.

Questions
     1) Well, here we go again with God displaying through His emotions a very human fault: FAVORITISM. Oh, wait...are things that would normally be considered a fault for humans NOT considered a fault for God since He is...well, God?

18. I Samuel 2:29

29 So why do you scorn my sacrifices and offerings? Why do you give your sons more honor than you give me--for you and they have become fat from the best offerings of my people Israel!

Questions
     1) What is the REAL problem here?

     2) Is the real problem here the fact that God felt put out that someone else got more than He did?

     3) Sooo...God always wants the best for HIMSELF? God punishes people when the best of anything is given to anyone other than Himself, doesn't He?

19. I Samuel 2:30

30 Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the LORD declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Questions
     1) Doesn't the grouping of the words "I promised" followed by "but now" infer that, yes, God made a promise, but now God has decided to amend that promise at least in part?

     2) Can God break the rules in regard to promises since He is the One Who made all of the rules to begin with?

20. I Samuel 2:35-36

35 And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.

36 And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, “Please put me in one of the priests’ places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.

Questions
     1) Sooo...if God/the LORD said here that they would go in FOREVER before the anointed, and if the Word of God/the LORD stands forever, is this sure house of the faithful priest still around?

     2) If this sure house of the faithful priest is no longer around, what does this say for the unchangeable, unerring, infallible, and everlasting Word of God?

     3) Is the answer to the question directly above that in the present times the sure house is now the church (which also happens to be the Bride of Chucky...I mean Christ), and the 'faithful priest' is the believer who receives Jesus into their heart?

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