The Law concerning
Punishment
and Restitution
278.
That the Court shall pass
sentence of death by decapitation with the sword Lev. 26:25 I will bring upon you a
sword, avenging among you and you will be delivered into the hand of your enemy) (This
command teaches us that the sword of the word is always an effective to bring
death to the desires of the flesh).
285.
That the Court shall pass sentence of death by strangulation (Lev.
20:10 And
a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with his
neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.) (This command teaches us that consider a
computer network and all believers are connected to that network, this network
is free from virus (sin). If a computer pick up a virus it must be separated
from the network until the virus is cleanse from it. As individuals we are
connected to the source of all Spiritual growth. When we are separated from the
source we will not grow spiritually, a branch that has been cut of can only be
engraphted back into the True Vine by the Blood of Yahushua our Messiah. There
are activities in our lives that we need to take by the neck and strangled;
bring that activity under control of the Holy Spirit. The court here are: our
Lord and Savior Yahushua, El YAHWEH, and ourselves).
286.
That the Court shall pass sentence of death by burning with fire (Lev.
20:14 A man
who shall take a woman and her mother, it is a depraved plot; they shall burn
him and them in fire, and there shall not be depravity among you.) (This command teaches us that to take this
term refers to having sexual relationship. A man is not allowed to have a
sexual relationship between a woman and her daughter. Sexual relationship means
to submit to or pledge elegancy to. An elegancy to one parent could over ride
the elegancy to one husband. This is the type of scenario is trying to
eliminate from the minds of humanity before they enter the Kingdom. The use of
fire as a means of purifying this mind set, fire usually totally eradicate the
object.).
287.
That the Court shall pass sentence of death by stoning (Deut. 22:24 then you shall take them
to the gate of the city and pelt them with stone and they shall die: the girl
because of the fact that she did not cry out in the city, and the man because
of the fact that he afflicted the wife of his fellow; and you shall remove the
evil from your midst.) (This command
teaches us that what this commandment is addressing is rebellion, if a woman is
betrothed to another man, we must respect that commitment. If the woman did not
cry out, it is assume that the man already knows that she is betrothed, if he
chooses to continue pursuing after her, then they both shall die. If she cried
out even if she is not heard, she is not liable for the death penalty. What
this commandment is stressing is we must respect authority of another person.
If we cannot respect authority her on earth how will we accept it is Heaven.
These are the attribute we must develop in the flesh, for when we die, the
level of knowledge we have attained while on earth will be the level we function
at when we get to heavens.)
288.
To hang the dead body of one who has incurred that penalty (Deut. 21:22 if a man shall have
committed a sin whose judgment is death, he shall be put to death, and you
shall hang him on a gallows.) (This command
teaches us that the body of a person, executed by stoning for idolatry or
blasphemy must be hung, but it must be taken down and buried before nightfall,
because it is degrading to allow a body to hang. Therefore the practice of the
court was to hang the body just before sunset, and take it down immediately for
burial. A person in the redeemed community who have been caught in adultery
must first be subjugated to the Torah, his or her sins or fleshly nature must
be brought for all to see. This however must not be an ongoing publication of
the individual fleshly nature, it should stop before sundown and forgotten. It
is the death to the flesh nature El YAHWEH is after. Notice what Yahushua did
to the woman caught in the act of adultery, she was brought in the public for
all to see, then He told her to go and sin no more).
289.
That the dead body of an executed criminal shall not remain hanging on
the tree over night (Deut. 21:23 His body shall not remain for the night on the
gallows) (This command teaches us that our sins must
be exposed to the light, the day represent the light and the night darkness. A
redeem person who sins should exposed themselves to the light of the Holy
Spirit and not the darkness that sin produce. We as believers should allow the
sun to go down of our sins. We are admonish else where if we touch a dead thing
which is sin, we should wash our selves and be unclean until evening. The lamb
that was crucified for our sin died and was buried just before sundown on
Passover).
290.
To inter the executed on the day of execution (Deut. 21:23 rather you shall surely
bury him on the day,) (This command
teaches us that the prohibition against allowing a body to remain unburied
overnight applies even to people who died naturally. )
291.
Not to accept ransom from a murderer (Num. 35:31 you should not accept
ransom for the life of a killer who is worthy of death.) (This command teaches us that Ransom,
atonement money. This commandment is shown in the case of one whose ox kills
someone, where the Torah provides that the ox is stoned, while the owner
redeems his own culpability by making a payment. Here, the Torah dispels the
notion that a murderer can have the same recourse).
292.
To exile one who committed accidental homicide (Num. 35:25 and the assemble
shall return him to his city of refuge
where he had fled;)
(This command teaches us that
if the court determines that the death was truly an accident, then it must rule
that he is not liable even to exile and that the avenger has no right to harm
him.).
293.
To establish six cities of refuge (for those who committed accidental
homicide) (Deut. 19:2 you shall separate three cities for yourselves
in the mid of the land,) (This command
teaches us that whenever someone takes a life, there are four general
possibilities: 1 if the act was accidental to a degree that the perpetrator was
blameless, he is absolved of responsibility; 2 if the act was unintentional,
but with clear defined degree of carelessness, the perpetrator is exiled to a
city of refuge; 3 if the circumstances of an intentional killing were such that
the court cannot carry out the death penalty, or if there was a high degree of
negligence, close to intentional the sin is too grave to be absolved by exile;
4 if killing was intentional, and the killer was properly warned and his act
was witnessed he is liable to execution by the court).
294.
Not to accept ransom from an accidental homicide, so as to relieve him
from exile (Num. 35:32 you shall not accept
ransom for one who fled to his city of refuge to return to dwell in the land,
before the death of the Kohem) (This command
teaches us that the commandment, or statues written in Torah cannot change.
Some may even try to buy their way out of the city of exile before the High
Priest death, this must not be so).
295.
To decapitate the heifer in the manner prescribed (in expiation of a
murder on the road, the perpetrator of which remained undiscovered) (Deut. 21:4
The elders
of that city shall bring the heifer down
to a harsh valley, which cannot be worked and cannot be sown, and they shall axe
the back of its neck in the valley) (This
command teaches us that This command teaches us that we must always offer the
sacrifice the way Torah prescribe. Righteousness is doing what Torah said.
Idolatry is creating our way of doing what Torah say we must do).
296.
Not to plow nor sow the rough valley (in which a heifer's neck was
broken) (Deut. 21:4
which cannot be worked and cannot be sown) (This
command teaches us that the term is in the future tense, implying that it is
forbidden even to work in this valley. This is where the atonement for unsolved
murders are made. ).
297.
To adjudge a thief to pay compensation or (in certain cases) suffer
death (Ex. 21:16
one who kidnaps a man and sells him, and he was found to have been in his
power, shall surely be put to death; Ex. 21:37 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep or goat, and slaughter it
or sell it, he shall pay five cattle in place of the ox, four in place of the
sheep. ; Ex.
22:1 if the
thief is discovered while tunneling in, and he is struck and dies, there is no
blood-guilt.) (This command teaches us that Kidnapping are
liable for the death penalty only if they force the victim to work for them and
then sold him into slavery. The Torah command that one who steals an ox or
sheep and sells or slaughters it must pay five times the value of the ox and
four times the sheep. The cost of the ox is more serious because it causes the
owner to loose time in production. This is were an eye for an eye come in. The
cost to the owner should be recompense by the thief.)
298.
That he who inflicts a bodily injury shall pay monetary compensation
(Ex. 21:18-19 “And when men strive together, and one smites the
other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his
bed, if he rises again and walks about outside with his staff, then he who
smote him shall be innocent. He only pays for lost time and sees to it that he
is completely healed.) (This commandment discusses a case where a person struck his fellow
man a blow powerful enough to kill him, even if it was only his hand, which is
not a lethal weapon. If the victim was
so badly injured that there is a reasonable chance that he may die, the court
should jail the aggressor pending the victim recovery. Once the victim is able
to move under his own power, and his life is no longer in danger. The aggressor
shall pay for lost time).
299.
To impose a penalty of fifty shekels upon the seducer (of an
unbetrothed virgin) and enforce the other rules in connection with the case
(Ex. 22:15-16 “And when a man entices a maiden who is not engaged, and
lies with her, he shall certainly pay the bride-price for her to be his
wife. “If her father absolutely refuses
to give her to him, he pays according to the bride-price of maidens.) (The Torah goes
from instances of required property theft to theft of the heart. If a man
seduces a girl below the age of twelve and a half, he should take her as a
wife, but he is not required to do so. The father has the right to refuse him
his request. The seducer is require to pay the a fine to the girls father. In
addition to the fine, he must pay for monetary damage and the humiliation he
inflicted upon her. This monetary punishment in this commandment apply if the
young girl was not betrothed. This betrothal is similar to an engagement ring.
Following betrothal (Kiddushim) the couple may not live together, they are
considered to be husband and wife, to the extent that adultery is a capital
offence, and the rule is that no monetary payment are assessed for a capital
offence. If the father of the girl does not agree to give his daughter, the
male must still pay the bride price of fifty shekels, the amount stimulated by
Torah for a virgin).
300.
That the violator (of an unbetrothed virgin) shall marry her (Deut.
22:28-29 “When
a man finds a girl who is a maiden, who is not engaged, and he seizes her and
lies with her, and they are found out, then the man who lay with her shall give
to the girl’s father fifty pieces of silver, and she is to be his wife because
he has humbled her. He is not allowed to put her away all his days.) (This command teaches us that there are two
stage in a Hebrew marriage covenant, kiddushim and Nesuim. Kiddushim is
effected when the groom pay the bride price to the bride father, today when the
groom ask the bride father for permission to marry his daughter. Today no bride
price is paid any more. Nesuim takes effect
when a public display of there union is made. Then they may live together. It
is not a sin to change the order of how it is carried out, it is a sin if it is
not. The consummation of the union should be the last, however in the case
under consideration that took place first. Therefore we are commanded to
complete the other steps).
301.
That one who has raped a damsel and has then (in accordance with the
law) married her, may not divorce her (Deut. 22:29 He is not allowed to put
her away all his days.) (This command
teaches us that, if a man rape a virgin she become his life time partner
regardless of how she behaves. Can you ever image taking a wife and she can
behave any way she wished, and the husband cannot put her away. This is like a
life time sentence to live in a room with a constant water drip. But rightly
so, this is a sentence for rape.)
302.
Not to inflict punishment on Shabbat (Ex. 35:3 “Do not kindle a fire in
any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.” (because some punishments were inflicted by fire) (This command teaches us that by singling
out fire from all the other forms of Sabbath labor, this Commandment alludes to
the law that unlike the other Festival when food preparation is permitted. By
specifying that fire may not be kindled on the Sabbath, the Torah indicated
that since food preparation is forbidden on the Sabbath other work is forbidden
as well. Fire in this sense also alludes to cause a quarrel on the Sabbath,
anything that may cause us to get hot under the collar is a spiritual form of
fire).
303.
To punish the wicked by the infliction of stripes (Deut. 25:2 “And it shall be, if the
wrongdoer is to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and be
beaten in his presence with the number of blows according to his wrong.) (This command teaches us that in the
administration of stripes the court must first determine the physical condition
of the prisoner. As a further precaution, and to show that the reason for
lashes is not to inflict pain but to provide atonement for the past and a
lesson for the future).
304.
Not to exceed the statutory number of stripes laid on one who has
incurred that punishment (Deut. 25:3 forty shall he strike him, he shall not abb;
lest he strike him an additional blow beyond these, and you brother will be
degraded in your eyes.)( This command
teaches us that the object is not to destroy, but to atone or purge he believer
of sin. If someone looses the control of his bodily function or past out during
the flogging what purpose does this serve by to humiliate him.).
305.
Not to spare the offender, but impose the prescribed penalties on one
who has caused damage (Deut. 19:13 “Your eye shall not
pardon him, but you shall purge the blood of innocent blood from Yisra’ĕl, so
that it might be well with you.) (The
commandment admonition in cases where one could rationalize that the death
penalty should be avoided, perhaps because the guilty party has influence or
power, or because one can sympathize with his cause. The verse concludes that
by executing the murderer, the nation will insure that it shall be good for
you, because compassion for a murderer breeds further bloodshed. Since it frees
him and sets an example for other who may be tempted to follow his example).
306.
To do unto false witnesses as they had purposed to do (to the accused)
(Deut. 19:18 And the judges shall diligently search and see if the
witness is a false witness, who has falsely accused his brother, 19 then you shall do to him as he thought to have
done to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.) (This command teaches us that we must do to the false witness, as he had planned
to do to his brother).
307.
Not to punish any one who has committed an offense under duress (Deut.
22:25 “But if a man finds the girl who is engaged in the field, and the
man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.
26 “But you shall do no matter to the girl. The girl has no sin worthy of death) (This command teaches us that if a child is
force to steal by his parent, that child should not be punished. If a person is
force by the treat of death to partake in a crime he or she is not liable).
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