| Summary | The challenging controversial wiping out of the Canaanites--man, woman, child and animal--must be approached first that God always does the best. This ultimate destruction turns our eyes onto the Lord who is a God of mercy (He made room for a Messianic nation to bring salvation to the world). As a God of holiness, sin will not go unpunished. God owns all things and absolutely retains the right to take human life and delegates limited responsibility to government to do the same. God is a God of longsuffering, who waited hundreds of years and gave numerous warnings and object lessons, before executing "His strange work" of judgment. |
