![]() 1:17-27) Why was this? King Saul was Jehovah’s anointed. ![]() 19:1-8) But, on the other hand, when David mourned over unfaithful King Saul, he was given no reproof. Most fittingly, therefore, when King David so greatly mourned the death of his ambitious, perfidious, immoral son Absalom, his general Joab justly reproved David. And in the book of Revelation we read that although Babylon the Great was mourned by some of her political and commercial paramours, the hosts of heaven rejoiced at her destruction.- Jer. So Jeremiah was commanded not to mourn over the calamity that was to befall his apostate people Israel. To have mourned over them would have been tantamount to finding fault with the execution of Jehovah’s righteous judgments. Why, in all these instances, did God’s servants not mourn or were they not to mourn those who had perished? Because they had been executed by Jehovah God. When Pharaoh and his army were drowned in the Red Sea, Moses and his people, far from mourning, exultingly sang a victory song.- Ex. Nor is there any record that Lot mourned the destruction of the grossly wicked people of Sodom and Gomorrah. For example, there is not the slightest hint that Noah and his family mourned the death of the wicked and violent generation that perished in the Deluge. But there were those whose deaths were not mourned. All the mourned ones had been fearers of Jehovah God and were relatives or held in high esteem by their survivors. There is one thing to be noted, however, about these particular instances of mourning recorded in the Scriptures. In later periods of time there were mourning and lamentation over the deaths of Lazarus, Jesus Christ, Stephen and others.- Gen. Though King Josiah was killed in a battle that he unwisely entered, there was great mourning on the part of Jeremiah and all Judah over the death of that good ruler. The Israelites deeply mourned the death of their leader Moses. When the patriarch Jacob himself died there was great mourning, not only by his own household, but also by the Egyptians. Jacob mourned because he thought his favorite son Joseph had been killed by a wild animal. There was proper mourning on the part of Jacob and Esau when their father Isaac died. The Bible gives us many examples of mourning for dead persons. 7:2.ĭoes the fact that Solomon says it is better to go to the house of mourning mean that it is right and proper for Christians to go to any house of mourning and commiserate with the survivors? Is it proper to mourn the death of every kind of person? What does the Bible, God’s Word, indicate? Those words of the contemporary Russian-born scientist Theodosius Dobzhansky throw light on why King Solomon counseled some three thousand years earlier: “Better is it to go to the house of mourning than to go to the banquet house, because that is the end of all mankind and the one alive should take it to his heart.” Yes, because we do have a sense of self-awareness and death-awareness humans usually arrange some kind of service for a deceased friend, fellow believer or relative.- Eccl. ![]() In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.” “Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.” a-See Genesis 23:3, 4. simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. ![]() IT HAS been truthfully stated: “No known human group.
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