A common perception of the Bible is that its main objective is to demonstrate how the Divine responds to human conduct. In other words, how a Divine System of Justice (occasionally wrongly named “Poetic Justice”) is operating in the world.
The belief in the existence of Divine Justice is explicitly pronounced by Abraham, outcrying (while attempting to secure Sodom and Gamora from total destruction, Genesis 18:25):
“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do justice?”.
A main ingredient of this belief is that justice is exercised in the same “coin”, and usually by same measure, as the sin. It is manifested, symbolically, in the known, and wrongly interpreted and defamed (Exodus 21:24):
“Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, bruise for bruise”.
In this post, we present two cases of Divine Justice — As presented in the Bible (exercised in midwater) and current (as exercised in midair).
Example 1: Midwater
The Sin:
Exodus 1:15-16: “And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives…when you do the office of midwife to the Hebrew women, if it be son then you shall kill him and if daughter then she shall live”;
Exodus 1:22: “And Pharaoh commanded all of his people, saying, every son that is born you shall cast into the Ye’or River and every daughter you shall save alive”.
Divine Justice:
Exodus 14:28: “And the waters returned and covered the chariots, and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them, there remained of them not even a single one”.
Example 2: Midair
The Sin:
April 14th 2024, Sunday (Sixth day of the Hebrew month of Nissan): Over three-hundreds deadly projectiles launched from Iran towards the State of Israel (see: Scores of Projectiles Launched on Israel with No Casualties?? — Not for the First Time ).
Divine Justice (plausibly):
May 19th 2024, Sunday (Eleventh day of the Hebrew month of Iyar): President of Iran, Raisi, with the Iranian minister for foreign affairs and others, were killed in midair in a helicopter-crash, amid heavy fog, as they were travelling back from a visit to northern Iran (near the borders with Azerbaijan and Armenia), where they discussed an infrastructure dam project with Azerbaijan president.
Comments:
- Post written under the current commonly accepted perception that the cause of Iranian helicopter-crash was solely weather-related.
- A lecture, in same line of thought as this post, by Rabbi Ben-Porat (added May, 22, 2014; Hebrew): Rabbi Ben-Porat on the Death of Iranian President in a Helicopter Crash_(May 22nd)
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