“Keep you my Sabbath, for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to death, he that do any work, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people.” Ex. 31:14. “And if the people bring ware, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath, or the holy day.” Nehemiah 10:31, drbo.org. Wow! Is it that serious, that he that would profane the Day of the Lord shall be put to death? That’s giving him the death penalty. They had jails and prisons back then. Why didn’t they just put him in prison, which they did? Because, as Fr. Leslie Rumble said in Radio Replies, “The seriousness of the punishment shows the seriousness of the crime.” Let us see if God meant what he said. The argument that we no longer need the death penalty is Null and Void because, as they say, we have enough prisons to put them in. For one, that is not true. Secondly, God meant thereby to show the people how serious it is to break his law, to make them have the fear of the Lord like they should and not sin. “The fear of the Lord driveth out sin.” Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 1:27.
In the Book of Numbers, chapter 15, we see that they apprehended a man just picking up sticks on the Sabbath. Just picking up sticks on the Sabbath. Moses asked God what they should do with him, and God said, “Stone him to death.” “For he hath contemned the word the Lord, and made void his precept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity. 32 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day, 33 That they brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole multitude. 34 And they put him into prison, not knowing what they should do with him. 35 And the Lord said to Moses: Let that man die, let all the multitude stone him without the camp. 36 And when they had brought him out, they stoned him, and he died as the Lord had commanded.” You see, it wasn’t so much the work that he did, but it was him despising the Law of the Lord. He contemned the word of the Lord, and made void his precept. “For he hath contemned the word the Lord, and made void his precept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity.”
Later, in Numbers chapter 16, we see Core, Abiron, and Dathan, grumbling against God, building a golden calf, violating the first commandment, and causing the people to sin. What did God do when Moses came back off the mountain? He destroyed those men and all their substance, and not only that, he opened up the earth, and swallowed them alive into hell! They didn’t even die! THEY WERE SWALLOWED ALIVE INTO HELL! The schism of Core and his adherents: their punishment. “And the Lord said to Moses: 24 Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents of Core and Dathan and Abiron. 25 And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and the ancients of Israel following him, 26 He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their sins. 27 And when they were departed from their tents round about, Dathan and Abiron coming out stood in the entry of their pavilions with their wives and children, and all the people. 28 And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of my own head: 29 If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me. 30 But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord. 31 And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet: 32 And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance. 33 And they went down alive into hell the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people. 34 But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up also. 35 And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.”
Another time St. Paul said God destroyed 23,000 in one day for the sin of fornication! 1 Cor. 10:8. Again, chapter 25, The people fall into fornication and idolatry; for which twenty-four thousand are slain, and The zeal of Phinees. “And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab, 2 Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods. 3 And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry, 4 Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel. 5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.
[3] “Initiated to Beelphegor”: That is, they took to the worship of Beelphegor, an obscene idol of the Moabites, and were consecrated, as it were, to him.
6 And behold one of the children of Israel went in before his brethren to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses, and of all the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle. 7 And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up from the midst; of the multitude, and taking a dagger, 8 Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel: 9 And there were slain four and twenty thousand men. 10 And the Lord said to Moses: 11 ‘Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.’ You see, God gave many of them the death penalty through Moses, and He commended the zeal of Phinees putting the two fornicators to death, contrary to what our bishops would tell us today.
PROFANATION OF SUNDAY IS AN INJUSTICE: A farmer ridiculed his neighbor because he did not, like himself, work on Sunday, but on the contrary attended the church service. “Suppose,” said the farmer, “I have seven shillings in my pocket, and meeting a poor man on the way I give him six, what would you say?” “Well,” said the farmer, “you would be very generous, and would deserve every thanks.” “But if instead of thanking me, he threw me down and robbed me of my last shilling, what then?” “Why, such a man would deserve to be hanged.” “Friend,” replied the neighbor, “that’s your very case. God has given you six days to labor in, and has reserved only the seventh for himself, and commands us to sanctify it. And you, instead of being thankful for his gifts and respecting his will, you rob him even of the seventh day. Are not the two cases alike?” The farmer agreed, he admitted his fault, and corrected it. (Stories from the Catechist, #488) … To be continued.
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