Is God a Bully and a Tyrant?

Is God cruel? Is He a bully?

This is something the enemy loves to proclaim. It is written within many occultist documents, as well, making Satan out to be the good guy and God Almighty a tyrant. During the Tribulation, this lie will be spread over the entire Earth when the Antichrist announces that he is the benevolent savior, not God. By the way, there will be a Jesus present, but he will not be our Jesus. 

But I digress. An atheist family member of mine loves to point out Scriptures from the Old Testament that, to him, prove that IF God exists, He is certainly a monster and not worth following. If you've read the Old Testament, you may already have some verses in mind that may allude to this. Without listing them here, I will simply say that many times God told the Israelite people to kill every man, woman, child in the nations and towns they attacked. This was during the time when God rescued the Hebrews from Egypt and brought them to the land of Israel to give it to them as their inheritance. The problem was, many other very wicked and pagan nations already inhabited that land.  

As you read through the accounts of the Hebrews attacking these nations, in some cases, God only said to kill the men. Other times, everyone was to be slaughtered, even the animals. To a non-believer, I can see how some of these verses can present God as cruel. Why did He demand even the innocent children be killed?

This person addressed another issue. Often times in the Old Testament, when someone sinned, let's say committed adultery, that person was brought out and stoned to death. There were very tough consequences for sin. In one story when a man stole some gold from Jericho during the battle, which God expressly forbid it, he and his entire family and animals were brought out and killed. These are things that make us squirm in our present soft culture. 

Let me present a parable that may help explain this:

You have a son. At his birth, you received a revelation about his life that would come to pass. You know it is 100 percent true. This son of yours will grow up and become a doctor. But not just any doctor. He will discover a cure to a raging disease of the future that if left unchecked, would kill 95% of Earth's population. In other words, your son will one day save billions of people. The problem is, there will be many obstacles, roadblocks, and temptations along the course of his life that could prevent him from becoming who he was meant to be.  

Your job? To keep him safe, protect him from all the evil influences that could lead him astray, and train and discipline him to become the man he must be. So, what kind of life would your son have? He could not have a normal childhood. There would lots of rules and regulations, lots of dos and don'ts and lots of subsequent punishments for disobedience. Your son cannot lead a normal life. He cannot be allowed to associate with bad kids or taint himself with drugs or alcohol or illicit relationships. No. And not only that, his life would be scheduled, precise, disciplined with many hours spent in training and learning and growing. To make matters worse, your son is very rebellious.

Because of this you have to be a tough parent. And all the other kids and parents around you label you a tyrant and a monster because of it. But they don't understand that in your heart of hearts, you are trying to save billions of lives. 

The parent is God. The Son is Israel. Because God loved the world so much, He had to come up with a plan to rescue people from Satan's clutches. The only way to do that was to birth His Son into the world and have Him pay the price that would save billions. But in order to do that, God had to find a people group, a nation, through which He could bring His Son. That nation had to be pure blooded. Their DNA had to be purely human. They had to be decent, righteous people who followed God's commands.

The problem was that all the nations that were in the land of Israel were extremely wicked. These nations worshiped Baal and Ashtoroth. The Bible glosses over who these "gods really were. These "gods" were demons who demanded child sacrifice. During the worship service, a baby was sacrificed, then the people drank the blood and afterward engaged in huge sex orgies. Sorry to be graphic. These nations were extremely wicked, and God knew that if Israel mingled with them, Israel would become so corrupt, that He couldn't bring His Son into the world through them.

Then, add to that, the Scriptures clearly say that some of these nations were descendants of the Giants. They were Nephilim, the offspring of the fallen angels and human women. Their DNA was not human. IF Israel mated with any of them, the bloodline would be destroyed, and Jesus could not be born to anyone not human. 

So, when God ordered that every man, woman, and child was to be killed, it was because every man, woman, and child had Nephilim DNA. When God allowed the women and children to live, it was because their blood was not tainted. When God's rules and commandments seemed harsh and the punishments over the top, it was because He had to purge all evil from the nation of Israel. 

Satan knew God had chosen Israel for a purpose. It's possible he didn't completely understand God's intentions, but he knew that he had to defile Israel any way he could... by luring them away into idol worship and wickedness and changing their DNA.  

It was God's job to stop him. That's why it seems like God is a cruel tyrant. When in truth, all He was doing was making it possible to save billions of people from hell.  

God is love, and when you get to know Him, you begin to understand that everything He does is because of His love for mankind and for you and me.