Judgments
By Water Giddings
April 27, 2025
Psalms 9:16: "The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth:...”
(Deuteronomy 17:8-13). How well does American Israel know the LORD? How well does American Israel understand The Judgments of her God? Are we still doing stupid Sheep stuff?
p 8 If there arise a matter too hard for
thee in judgment, between blood
and blood, between plea and plea,
and between stroke and stroke, be-
ing matters of controversy within
thy gates: then shalt thou arise,
and get thee up into the place which
the LORD thy God shall choose;
c 9 And thou shalt come unto the
priests the Levites, and unto the judge
that shall be in those days, and en-
quire; and they shall shew thee the
sentence of judgment:
p 10 And thou shalt do according to
the sentence, which they of that place
which the LORD shall choose shall
shew thee; and thou shalt observe to
do according to all that they inform
thee:
c 11 According to the sentence of the
law which they shall teach thee, and
according to the judgment which they
shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou
shalt not decline from the sentence
which they shall shew thee, to the
right hand, nor to the left.
p 12 And the man that will do presum-
ptuously, and will not hearken unto
the priest that standeth to minister
there before the LORD thy God, or
unto the judge, even that man shall
die: and thou shalt put away the evil
from Israel.
c 13 And all the people shall hear, and
fear, and do no more presumptuously.
Deuteronomy chapter seventeen.
Look back to the end of Verse 12. “Thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.” In the last four years (2020-2024) has evil been deliberately put into all our neighbourhoods? How many times in the 21st Century have we heard capital punishment is no deterrent to the commission of capital crimes?!! Did we just now read what God says about that in Verse 13? Do our Bibles ask the question, Who will rule? God or man? Are we despisers of God’s Judgments?
(Go back to Verse 8): “being matters of controversy within thy gates.” Who can explain to me what that Phrase means? What are “thy gates”? What are “matters of controversy”? In Genesis 19 Abraham’s nephew Lot was sitting in the Gate, when two angels entered the city of Sodom at even. When the angels said to Lot “we will abide all night in the street,” what did Lot do? Did Lot know they were angels? Did the 2 Angels eat with Abraham at the noon meal and with Lot at the evening meal?
Genesis 19:3 says Lot pressed upon them greatly to avail themselves of his hospitality! Why? Why did Lot press upon them greatly to abide with him all night rather than out in the street? Was it Lot’s job in Sodom to sit in the gate? As one who sat at the gate in Sodom did Lot know what happened “all night in the street”? When did Lot realize the two men were angels?
(Leviticus 19:17). What did Lot attempt to do when the mob of men from every quarter of the city called for him to send out to them the two “men” that had come into the city at even?
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in
thine heart: thou shalt in any wise re-
buke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin
upon him.
Leviticus chapter nineteen.
“Thou shalt...not suffer sin upon...thy neighbour.” Did Lot plead with the men not to abuse the two strangers visiting the city by committing unnatural acts with them? (2 Peter 2:6-9). Did Lot attempt to rebuke his neighbours, and not suffer sin upon them?
p 6 And turning the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah into ashes condemn-
ed them with an overthrow, making
them an ensample unto those that
after should live ungodly;
c 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with
the filthy conversation of the wicked:
p 8 (For that righteous man dwelling
among them, in seeing and hearing,
vexed his righteous soul from day to
day with their unlawful deeds;)
c 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver
the godly out of temptations, and to
reserve the unjust unto the day of
judgment to be punished:
Second Peter chapter two.
(Look back to Verse 7). Do the New Testament Scriptures tell us that Lot was a “just” man? Do we hear condemnations concerning Lot in our circles? How willing are we to receive the New Testament Scriptures as the Best Commentary on the Old Testament Scriptures? Are the New Testament Scriptures the Best Commentary on the Old Testament Scriptures? Does Verse 8 describe Lot as a “righteous man”, having a “righteous soul”?! Shall we believe God or man? What do we suppose the two Angels of Judgment, had they abode “all night in the street,” would have done to the men of Sodom who aimed to abuse them by committing an unnatural act with them? Instead, the two Angels were busy protecting Lot in his household dominion. Does “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished”?
(Genesis 19:4-5). Who are these men, so hell bent on rushing “unto the day of judgment to be punished”?
p 4 But before they lay down, the men
of the city, even the men of Sodom,
compassed the house round, both old
and young, all the people from every
quarter:
c 5 And they called unto Lot, and said
unto him, Where are the men which
came in to thee this night? bring
them out unto us, that we may know
them.
Congregation, you just read Verse 5. What does the mob mean when they say, “that we may know them”? Is this obviously an adult topic? Who here, understanding the import of these words, could fail to have a sick feeling in the deepest pit of their bowels? Did we dodge a bullet in the 2024 Election like Trump did? If the Server in CCP occupied Serbia had not failed by an Act of God to create a VPN in the election machines of every county still having machines, at 7:01 pm, resetting the vote counts, making every exit poll useless, would every Christian household, one after another be having a Lot experience with a mob? Is American Israel celebrating the Greatest Thanksgiving since the Inception of The Holy Day? Or have we little or no understanding of The Bullet we just dodged? How would we feel having our house compassed round, and having our Godly household Dominions assaulted?!!
(Verses 6-7). My turn to read: verse 6.
p 6 And Lot went out at the door unto
them, and shut the door after him,
c 7 And said, I pray you brethren, do
not so wickedly.
Experienced students of The Scriptures will recall that (Verse 8) Lot counter-offered to make their sin less by making it a “natural act” instead of “an unnatural act.”
(Genesis 19:9) But the Mob turned their fierce attention upon the one who stood in their way: Lot! If Trump had lost the Election, would any of us have done better having our house compassed round, and our Christian dominions assaulted?!!
9 And they said, Stand back. And
they said again, This one fellow
came in to sojourn, and he will needs
be a judge: now will we deal worse
with thee, than with them. And they
pressed sore upon the man, even Lot,
and came near to break the door.
Genesis chapter nineteen.
Even while Trump was the 45th President, did Mobs compass houses round, and assault the Dominions of the householders? How many People who committed Acts of Righteousness had their locations posted on the Internet, and their houses surrounded by “despisers of those that are good” (2 Timothy 3:3)?! Missouri Senator Hawley in Virginia? While he was still with Fox News, Tucker Carlson, terrifying his wife and small children? And what about the mob that terrified the man and his wife, as the mob demanded they leave their house to them in a prosperous gated community in suburban St. Louis, and the couple were armed promising the railers they would not tolerate criminal trespass!
Without a personal relationship with The Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ, how would we know of a Surety what we should do in any situation where a mob compasses round our house? How easy is it to judge another man’s Dominion? Is the Householder naturally in possession of the most information about most any situation the Household encounters?
Is it the Householder that has the Dominion?
(Look back to Genesis 19:9). Did the Mob turn their attention from the two “men” and move to attack Lot? What does the word “sojourn” mean? Was Lot native born in the city of Sodom, or was he kindred to many and came to live there?
Are the Tares always among the Wheat? And did they express their envy at his prosperous position as a judge sitting at the gate in the city? The two “men” pulled Lot back into the house shutting the door against them and struck them all blind! How terrifying is it to know that all that Mob still wearied themselves to “find the door” after they were struck blind?! Is it heartbreaking to know that Lot’s sons-in-law thought he was mocking when he urged them to leave the city with him?!
(Luke 17:32) “Remember Lot’s wife.”
(Deuteronomy 17:12). We began this Lesson with a responsive reading in Deuteronomy chapter 17. Do we recall what we discovered in Verse 12?
12 And the man that will do presump-
tuously, and will not hearken unto the
priest that standeth to minister there
before the LORD thy God, or unto the
judge, even that man shall die: and
thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy chapter seventeen.
“Thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.” What did that mean to Israel? What does that mean to American Israel? Are there other references in The Scriptures to “put away the evil from” among us? Shall we go to our Handout?
AMERICA MUST TURN TO GOD's LAW
Demonstrating the correctness and effectiveness of Divine Judgment
DEUTERONOMY 4:5, 6:
5) “Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
6) Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations. . .”
THE KEY: 2 Chronicles 7:14
“If My People, which are called by My Name (the Christians), Shall humble themselves (not humble the enemy), and seek My Face (My Law and My Will), and turn from their wicked ways (turn from their disobedience to My Law); then (after they do all that) will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin (their transgression of My Law), and will heal their land.”
Sin is “the transgression of the Law” (1 John 3:4). To quit sinning, America must turn and obey God's Laws. See inside for examples of our disobedience.
This is a publication of The Christian Committee to Teach Bible Law, under William Stritmatter. This ingenious visual aid contains three panels of cartoons that contrast Man’s Law on Murder, Theft and Rape with God’s Law on Murder, Theft and Rape. It is intended to hang accurate pictures in the Picture Galleries of our Minds.
We turn to the first panel on Murder. In the first picture we see a man lying dead in a pool of blood, and an assailant with a knife in his hand. The second picture shows a judge passing sentence upon the convicted murderer of 10 years at taxpayer expense. The third picture shows taxes collected by the state from state citizens used to feed, house and guard prisoners who have executed others, and avoid execution themselves. This third picture represents the minority of citizens who question this scam against the Law of God ! Stritmatter notes that many mur- derers, upon release, commit robberies and assaults, and mayhem, and murder again!
The first picture for God’s Law on Murder quotes Exodus 20:13, “Thou shalt not kill.” (Matthew 19:17-19). The Scriptures, here in Matthew 19, equate “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” with “Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, and Honour thy father and thy mother.”
The 2nd picture gives us a defined scenario. Have we heard it said the Statutes of God explain the application of God’s Commandments to specific situations?
In Exodus 21:14 the specific situation here reads: “But if a man come pre- sumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile...” Are we talking ambush? Today we call this premeditated murder. The remainder of Verse 14 gives God’s Judgment for this Act. “Thou shalt take him from mine altar that he may die.” But what if the witnesses testifying against the defendant lie? Does God have in His Law protections against the Executions of the Innocent while the Guilty escape?! The remainder of the 3rd picture in God’s Law on Murder partially quotes Deuteronomy 17:6: “At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he...be put to death...” In the 4th picture is a quote from Deuteronomy 17:7: “So (or, by this means) thou shalt put the evil away from among you.”
Underneath the four pictures Stritmatter comments: “The above is for first degree murder. (This would include aborticide). Different provisions are made in Bible Law for killing in self-defense, to stop the commission of a crime, for accidental killing, and for killing in war. God requires execution of murderers, because ‘the blood it defileth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but (except) by the blood of him that shed it.’ Has our refusal to execute murderers defiled America’s land?
This panel contrasts Man’s Law on Theft with God’s Law on Theft. The 1st picture shows the results of a stolen delivery truck the thief crashed in flight, and the thief in police custody. The 2nd picture shows the thief, his arms folded before him in the classic pose of resistance to righteousness receiving verdict and judgment for his actions under Man’s Law: Guilty! I sentence you to ten years in prison at the citizens’ expense. The 3rd picture shows one who has read God’s Law on Theft that explains the application of The Eighth Commandment, “Thou shalt not steal!” and “I am being robbed” twice(!).
The 1st picture under God’s Law on Theft quotes from Exodus 22:4: “If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double” is a split picture. In the left the thief who stole a tv is in police custody with the stolen tv. In the right picture the thief with his arms crossed in front of him, hears the judge say, “Because the tv was recovered intact you owe Mr. Smith two tv’s.”
The 2nd picture, also a split picture, quotes Exodus 22:1, “If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.” It returns to the circumstance where the thief who crashed the delivery truck in flight is in police custody. The right split picture shows the thief with his arms crossed in front of him, hearing the judge award his victim, Mr. Jones, 5 delivery trucks because he wrecked his victim’s source of wages.
The 3rd picture, also a split picture, quotes Exodus 22:3: “If he (the thief) have nothing then he shall be sold for his theft.” In the left split, the grim-faced thief, his arms dangling at his sides, hears the sentence of the judge, “if you cannot pay, you must work and pay Mr. Jones.” The Master who buys the thief’s service pays for Mr. Jones 5 delivery trucks and is fully vested with the right at law to the thief’s service until the value of his service repays his Master. The right split shows the thief on a ladder painting, while other workers below erect a fence. Stritmatter’s comment reads: “Work teaches skills, improves behaviour, and reduces the tendency to crime.”
The 4th picture, also a split picture, contains a quote now very familiar to us in This Lesson, Deuteronomy 17:12, “And the man that...will not hearken unto the priest...or unto the judge, even that man shall die.” The left split shows the defiant thief confronting the judge with these words: “I won’t work to repay Mr. Jones!”
The right split shows his destiny, whether he remains obstinate in his words, or returned to the jurisdiction of his servitude from which he flees. It is The Gallows (!) where he is hung without mercy. At this point The People will gladly restore his Master from the Treasury of The People in order to support those who give thieves a second chance to learn skills, improve their behaviour, and reduce crime. Strittmatter comments below: “Thieves who have been punished according to God’s Judgments (punishments) rarely steal again, as they have had demonstrated to them that ‘crime does not pay’. At the same time, by this example, others learn not to steal. “When the scorner (or disobedient) is punished, the simple is made wise...” (Proverbs 21:11). Parents and teachers know that punishing one child for disobedience teaches all the rest not to disobey. Adults react the same way, just as God’s Word says. Is that because all Adam are potential children of God, and actual children of God by virtue of the Birth from Above?
Contrasting Man’s law on Rape with God’s Law on Rape, might seem controversial. Will the Whole Counsel of God remove all controversy when we study all The Scriptures? The 1st picture under Man’s law on Rape shows a woman on the ground violated by the rapist seen walking away in a park on a beautiful moonlit night. The second picture shows the rapist with his arms folded before him, hearing the judge’s verdict and judgment: “Guilty. I sentence you to five years in prison at the citizen’s expense.” The 3rd picture shows that condemned rapist leaving prison, the caption reading, “After? years ... rapist is released back into society.” The 4th picture shows the convict forcing a woman in another park on another moonlit night! Stritmatter’s comment reads “Repetition of rape by former rapists is almost certain.”
The 1st picture under God’s Law on Rape is a repetition of the 1st picture under Man’s law on Rape showing a violated woman on the ground struggling to rise on her feet while the rapist saunters off fastening his pants. The one difference is the addition of the beginning of two verses from Scripture that contain a key phrase. The 1st Verse begins in this picture with these words: “But if a man finds a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her and lie with her ...”
The 2nd picture shows the judge sitting on the bench with the rape victim with her face veiled by a see-through veil pointing from the witness chair toward the defendant while the lawyer stands at her side with arms folded before him. The caption for the witness reads, “He is the man that raped me.” At the top of that 2nd picture Deuteronomy 22:25 concludes with these words: “Then the man only that lay with her shall die.”
Deuteronomy 22:26 begins in this picture with these words: “But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death...”
In the 3rd picture is a gallows raised up on a platform with the condemned rapist hooded, his hands secured behind him, accompanied by a deputy sheriff, a crowd of witnesses to the execution looking up from below. Deuteronomy 22:26 concludes in this picture with these words that answer the question why rapists are executed under God’s Law!! (The parentheses indicate Stritmatter’s comment.) “For as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter.” (Same as murder.)
The 4th picture shows a peaceful and beautiful park with 2 high rise buildings in full view at a distance through a break in the trees of the park. We can see the park is lighted, has a park bench, and a number of couples and families enjoying the park’s peace and tranquility. At the bottom of that picture, the last phrase Deuteronomy 19:20 is quoted: “And those which remain shall hear and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.”
At the bottom of this panel comparing Man’s law on Rape with God’s Law on Rape, Stritmatter’s Comment reads, “When those who violate God’s Laws are punished according to God’s Judgments (punishments), the citizens enjoy justice, order, quietness and peace. God says: “When my Judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.” (Isaiah 26:9). William Stritmatter of Lakemore, Ohio, died September 1, 2016. [Visual 1]
There are many in American Israel who do not wish to see Executions for capital crimes! They argue that the execution of just one, instead of the fugitive that actually committed the crime, is a price too big to pay! Many of them ask this question: Is capital punishment cruel and unusual punishment (according to the 8th Amendment)?
Who in American Israel dares to argue that we must risk the executions of some people who did not commit the crime in order to be sure to put the evil away from among us? Why is it we have yet to meet someone who would argue for the execution of somebody who did not commit the crime? Almost everybody we meet considers this as abhorrent to justice! Why should we presume our God lacks any thing? Let us not be derelict to ask the next question! [End Visual 1]
(Numbers 35:30). What statutes and judgments in God’s Law actively work to prevent execution of the guiltless?
30 Whoso killeth any person, the
murderer shall be put to death by the
mouth of witnesses: but one witness
shall not testify against any person to
cause him to die.
Numbers chapter thirty.
(Deuteronomy 17:6). Are 3 Witnesses the Natural Quorum?
6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or
three witnesses, shall he that is wor-
thy of death be put to death; but at
the mouth of one witness he shall
not be put to death.
Deuteronomy chapter seventeen.
(Deuteronomy 19:15). If God repeats himself on the same scroll, should we all the more hearken, heed, and do according to all He pronounces?
15 One witness shall not rise up
against a man for any iniquity, or
for any sin, in any sin that he sin-
neth : at the mouth of two witness-
es, or at the mouth of three witness-
es shall the matter be established.
Deuteronomy chapter nineteen.
Deuteronomy 19:15 is quoted in Matthew 18:16, 2 Corinthians 13:1, 1 Timothy 5:19, and Hebrews 10:28.
(Deuteronomy 19:16-20). But what if two False Witnesses, willing to perjure themselves against the innocent, can be found? Did that happen to Jesus Christ the Righteous being tried before the High Priest and the Sanhedrin, as reported in Matthew 26:60?!
p 16 If a false witness rise up against
any man to testify against him that
which is wrong;
c 17 Then both the men between
whom the controversy is, shall stand
before the LORD, before the priests
and the judges which shall be in
those days;
p 18 And the judges shall make dili-
gent inquisition: and, behold, if the
witness be a false witness, and hath
testified falsely against his brother;
c 19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he
had thought to do unto his brother:
so shalt thou put the evil away from
among you.
“So shalt thou put the evil away from among you.” Can we clearly see that God’s Law fully provides for the prosecution of breaking The Ninth Commandment, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” Let us recite together in unison Verse 20:
20 And those which remain shall
hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
commit no more any such evil among
you.
Deuteronomy chapter nineteen.
When is the last time we saw this Statute and Judgment of our God applied in our War Emergency Power courts? Has such a thing even occurred in our lifetimes? When did we cease to function as a Republic? How long have we despised the Statutes and Judgments of our God?!! Have we despised our God’s Statutes and Judgments largely through Ignorance? Does Ignorance simply mean we did not know something? If “I don’t know and I don’t care” cannot be healed, certainly Ignorance can! Who, now, wants Executions without God’s safeguards for the guiltless?!!
Do we have 7000 men in America that have not bowed the knee to Baal “under every green tree”? Are these 7000 men actively healing their ignorances?
If “the light of the glorious gospel of Christ” [2 Corinthians 4:4] is shining unto them, who could prevent them from applying the Statutes and Judgments of the God of our Fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in their households? Would they naturally enforce God’s Statutes and Judgments in the Remnant Churches? Are the Remnant Churches grassroot churches? Can any winter kill every grassroot? Do grassroots always come back to terrorize lawn owners with other signs of the promise of The Resurrection every spring? Did Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, say, Matthew 16:18, “…I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”?
(Psalms 9:16). We end our Lesson, Judgments, in The 9th Psalm.
16 The LORD is known by the judg-
ment which he executeth : the wick-
ed is snared in the work of his own
hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Psalms chapter nine.
If you and I were asked what we have come to know about The Great I Am God of Israel “by the judgment which he executeth,” what would our answers now be?
Bibliography
Psalms 9:16“The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth.”
Deuteronomy 17:8-13. “Thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.”
Leviticus 19:17. “Thou shalt … not suffer sin upon … thy neighbour.”
2 Peter 2:6-9. “And delivered just Lot … “
Genesis 19:4-5. “the men of Sodom compassed the house round …”
Genesis 19:6-7. “I pray you brethren do not so wickedly.”
Genesis 19:9. “they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot.”
Luke 17:32. “Remember Lot’s wife.”
Return to Deuteronomy 17:12. “Thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.”
Handout : The Christian Committee to Teach Bible Law. William Stritmatter.
Murder [Exodus 20:13] “Thou shalt not kill.”
[Matthew 19:17-19] equates “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” with “thou shalt do no murder”, “thou shalt not commit adultery”, “thou shalt not steal”, “thou shalt not bear false witness”, and “Honour thy father and thy mother.”
[Exodus 21:14] premeditated murder. Does God have protections in His Law to guard against Execution of the Innocent while the Guilty escape?
[Deuteronomy 17:6] “At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses ...”
[Deuteronomy 17:7] “thou shalt put the evil away from among you.”
Theft [Exodus 22:4] “If the theft be found ...”, restore double.
[Exodus 22:1] “If a man shall steal ... and kill it or sell it ...” restore five-fold, or four-fold.
[Exodus 22:3] “If he (the thief) have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.”
[Deuteronomy 17:12] “And the man that will not hearken unto the priest .. or the judge, ... shall die.”
[Proverbs 21:11] “When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise ...”
Rape [Deuteronomy 22:25] “But if a man ... force her and lie with her ...”
[Deuteronomy 22:26] “... when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter.”
[Deuteronomy 19:20] “And those which remain shall hear, and fear, ...”
[Isaiah 26:9] “When my judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.”
What statutes and judgments in God’s Law, if applied, would actually work to prevent the Execution of the guiltless?
(Numbers 35:30, Deuteronomy 17:6, Deuteronomy 19:15) “... one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.” [quoted in Matthew 18:16, 2 Corinthians 13:1, 1 Timothy 5:19, Hebrews 10:28.]
2 False Witnesses [Matthew 26:60] : (Deuteronomy 19:16-19). “Then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to do unto his brother: ...”
(Deuteronomy 19:20). “... commit no more any such evil among you.”
[Matthew 16:18] “I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
(Psalm 9:16). “The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth.”
