Biblical Ways to Handle Sexual allegations. Part [17] 05/07/2026 {Morning thought}

1st Kings 2: 28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

[Patriarchs & prophets pp 720] The guilty may attempt, as David had done, to conceal their crime from men; they may seek to bury the evil deed forever from human sight or knowledge; but “all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” Hebrews 4:13. “There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.” Joab most likely will not be saved in God’s kingdom, because he cultivated the bad habit of doing David’s bidding, even when he knew that it was wrong.

And in doing so Joab worshiped David instead of God, for worship consists of majority obedience and minority praise. The way in which Joab died speaks volumes to a life that was devoted to a mere mortal man, and not to God, first and foremost. Like other altar boys, Joab would cover David’s tracks and he would pervert his judgement to curry favor with the king, for no other reason than to be in his good favors.

Observe well his end, and may we all tack a different course for obvious reasons…. 1st Kings 2:29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him. 31 And the king said unto him, do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.

Psakms 139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!

Biblical Ways to Handle Sexual allegations. Part [16] 05/07/2026 {Evening thought}

2nd Samuel 12:11 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

In other words, God’s mitigation of the issue would act as a serious deterrent to anyone contemplating acts of sexual misconduct, because if He were to let it slide, without saying, or doing something, there would be other potential sex offenders waiting in the wings, for their opportune moment to arrive…. 2nd Samuel 12:12 For thou did it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

2nd Samuel 12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon…. [Patriarchs & prophets pp 720] For the sake of Israel also there was a necessity for God to interpose. As time passed on, David’s sin toward Bathsheba became known, and suspicion was excited that he had planned the death of Uriah.

David’s sin misrepresented the character of God and cast reproach upon His name. It tended to lower the standard of godliness in Israel, to lessen in many minds the abhorrence of sin; while those who did not love and fear God were by it emboldened in transgression.

2nd Samuel 12:11 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!