![]() ![]() People who through no real fault of their own have nothing. The widow and the orphan belong to a category of people – the helpless, the weak, the oppressed. The big picture in all these passages is plain for all who desire to see God’s truth. Mat 12:7 And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. These pastors who use their wooden, stiff method of handling Scripture are just like the Pharisees who distorted God’s Word with their knitpicky “strain out a gnat and swallow the camel” approach. (42) For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, (43) I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ ![]() Mat 25:41-43 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. They also include people like the “sojourner” (the foreigner coming into the land) and they include the poor. They do not just speak of the widow and the orphan. Over and over again we have this theme in Scripture accompanied by sobering, fearful warnings to any who mistreat and withold justice from the widow and orphan.īut let’s step back and think about these Scriptures in more detail. Now if you want multitudes of similar verses beyond these, they are not at all hard to find. Jas 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. (12) For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins- you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate. (4) Rescue the weak and the needy deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”Īmo 5:11-12 Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine. God has taken his place in the divine council in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: (2) “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah (3) Give justice to the weak and the fatherless maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. (19) Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.ĭeu 24:17 “You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge, Those pastors are dead wrong and it leaves me wondering why they are so opposed to treating abuse victims as belonging to this category.Ĭonsider the language used in the Bible for widows and orphans and others:ĭeu 10:18-19 He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. Some of you have told me that your pastor (ex pastor now, I trust) rejects this suggestion of the abuse victim as widow. I maintain that the many Scriptures that tell us to care for them and that promise the Lord’s wrath upon anyone who mistreats them apply directly to victims of domestic abusers and their children. I have written before on this subject of abuse victims as widows and orphans of our day. (23) If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, (24) and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless. Exo 22:22-24 You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.
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