And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem, all these words, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said,
Well, he is our brother, a bunch of fools, and they're going to end up suffering as a result.
And they gave him three score and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-Beareth, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons which followed.
This is great, isn't it? So the money comes from the house of Satan. The synagogue of Satan provides the money.
Abimelech, this wicked, rotten person, he goes out and hires a bunch of people to follow him.
He hires a bunch of mercenaries, and these people are described as vain and light persons.
Now, what does it mean, a vain and light person? People have no beliefs, no values, no character.
They're just going to go for the highest bidder, right? These mercenaries are going to fight for whoever hires them because they're just nothing.
They're like a non-playable character, right? Vain and light persons.
And they followed him. You can always get somebody to follow you.
Verse 5, and he went into his father's house at Ophrah and slew his brethren, the sons of Jerubel, being three score and ten persons upon one stone,
notwithstanding yet Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubel, was left, for he hid himself.
So he's so wicked that he murders his own brethren.
So a minute ago, he's like, hey, remember that I'm your bone and your flesh.
And then what does he turn around and do? Murder his own bone and flesh.
Now, stop and think about this.
If this guy's willing to murder his own bone and flesh, his own blood relatives,
because remember, the Bible was very clear that all of these sons were from Gideon's body.
They were all begotten by Gideon. They're all biologically related.
And if he's willing to kill his biological half-brothers on this side,
I wonder if he's going to be willing to kill the biological half-brothers on this side.
Stop and think about that. And these people, apparently, this is lost on them.
Hey, I'm your bone and your flesh. Well, he is our brother.
Okay, let's go help me murder my brothers.
Think about how stupid this is.
You know, when you get mixed up with people like this that hurt other people, you're next.
You know, it's funny. I think about these wicked pastors who crept in among us
and pretended to be our friends and then stabbed us in the back, slandered us,
and now they're teaching a bunch of goofball, stupid, ridiculous doctrines.
And then people still want to be friends with those guys.
You know, my message to them would just be, well, you guys are next,
if you hang around with people like that.
Because these kind of people, if they'll stab this friend over here in the back,
if they'll use and abuse people over here, they'll do the same thing over here.
And by the way, when people come to you talking bad about other people behind their back,
just take it to the bank, they're going to talk about you behind your back too.
So you think it's cool when they're talking bad about Pastor Anderson behind his back
or some other girl or boy or man or woman or just whoever,
when they're talking bad about somebody behind their back to you,
just realize that they're probably doing the same thing to you or they will down the road.
You know, this honeymoon lasts about three years.
And then three years later, these people are all fighting against each other and hating each other.
Why? This has happened throughout history.
You know, look at the Bolshevik Revolution.
And then they turn around and they're basically, you know,
purging their own party and killing their own fellow communists
and it's Trotsky against Stalin and, you know, the revolution devours its own children
because these kind of rebellious, violent people, they're going to turn on you next.
If they'll do it to the one, they'll do it to the other.
And obviously, Abimelek has no problem murdering his brothers.
So why would these people think he's going to be loyal to them?
Because he's half the one side of the family and half the other side of the family.
So what's the difference? There is no difference.
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