April 13, 2014: Forced Labor (Jerusalem) Babylon – Landon Lynch

There is another kind of slavery that comes when you enslave others. In a way it’s becoming the very person that you hate. When we consider the way the Hebrew people were brutalized by their slave drivers, it’s safe to say they hated them. Now, under the reign of Solomon, they became the slave drivers. 

It’s like a kid who was abused by his father who then grows up to abuse his son. Sometimes slavery is becoming the very thing that enslaved you, because you’ve never truly been freed from it. Of course, this leads to one place – more slavery. This is where the story of Israel ends in the Old Testament. There, by the Kebar River we hung our harps on the polar trees as our tormentors said, ‘Sing us songs of Zion.’ How can I sing of Zion while in a foreign land?