Simeon's Disobedience and the Golden Rule

Simeon's name begins with a Shin, if you're familiar with the Hebrew letters, and can be correlated to the Shema, which we went through before, "Hear, O Israel," which is found in the book of Deuteronomy. It is written here: Shema. You've got a Shin, Shema, Shin, Simeon, Shin, Hear, O Israel. Let's not repeat what Simeon didn't hear, right? "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one." And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. However, Simeon did not hear, just as the 10 spies did not listen when they spied on the inhabitants of the land of Canaan that Elohim had given to them. Simeon was the only tribe not blessed by Jacob and Moses because of his rage and his anger. Simeon lost Jacob's blessing because in revenge of his sister Dinah being raped, he and Levi raged at and murdered the men of Shechem. He lost Moses' blessing because of the tribe's moral conduct with the women from Midian at Shittim. So, again, we all remember this with the story of Dinah, Jacob's daughter. The only daughter, I think, in the Bible that he had with the 12 sons, Dinah was raped by the men of Shechem. And Simeon and Levi, you know, went over there and slaughtered all of them, murdered all of them. And Jacob was not happy with that at all. And we'll read the blessings of that. So, I think this, I think in today, our Jewish friends and our Christian friends need to go back to what Jacob said once we've been wronged, and how to handle that as human beings. I think that would be very wise to go back and read what the patriarchs said about these kind of things: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. What God loved these three men, and go back and look at what how they handled when they were given a bad hand, if you will. Gosh, I mean, Jacob's daughter was raped, okay? And he still was upset with what Simeon and Levi did because of their anger and their rage. So, I mean, goodness gracious, I don't know if anybody would be like that, but we've got to understand what the patriarch's heart was so that we can understand the wisdom that he had as well.

Furthermore, Simeon was an unblessed tribe by Jacob and Moses because he was the one who threw Joseph into the pit. Thus, the reason Joseph kept Simeon hostage in Egypt was to ensure his brother would return with Benjamin. Payback time, right? Simeon threw Joseph into the pit. When the brothers went to Egypt, Joseph kept Simeon in prison. So, payback time. The Golden Rule. It always comes back around, everybody. As it is written, "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life." I think that's something that we need to meditate on a little bit more as Christian believers: God is not mocked. The Golden Rule is in play. I talk about it all the time on this channel that, again, individual or country, what we do to other people as a country, we will get it returned back to us. Always remember that, because we've done a lot of evil across seas. Individually, if I do somebody wrong, it's come back. And they've done me wrong, it's come back to them. So, that's just the way it works, everybody. God is not mocked. We need to all understand that. For whatever a man or a nation sows, that shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that sows to the Spirit, amen, shall of the Spirit reap everlasting life. Amen.