V2-50 Who’s the Troublemaker?
Walking Talking Bible Project
Why would God want to teach warfare to His people? Is God for war or against it? Is warfare necessary to achieve God’s ultimate goals, or is it merely inevitable given the human condition? These are just some of the questions to consider in this week’s edition of the Walking Talking Bible Project.
Bible Passages
The following Scripture quotations from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB) are provided for your convenience. Please feel free to use the Bible and translation of your choice.
Memory Passage: Isaiah 2:4
Isaiah 2:4
4 Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
Connection Passage #1: Genesis 3:15
Genesis 3:15
15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Connection Passage #2 Judges 3:1–2
Judges 3:1–2
1 These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
2 if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly.
Connection Passage #3: Amos 9:14–15
Amos 9:14–15
14 I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
15 I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB).