The Rape of Dinah

Sex is designed by God to be an expression of love between a man and a woman who are married to each other. Sex outside of marriage is wrong and what was going on in Genesis 34 was not okay. Dinah did not do anything wrong, although she should have been careful visiting the pagan women, but was not why she was rapped and rape was and is not okay. Instead of addressing the evil done to Dinah, her brothers hatch their own evil scheme. The sign of the covenant without faith, only produces death. Such as baptism without faith in Jesus will not wash away our sins. Water baptism, as well as circumcision is a sign of a covenant relationship with God, it alone will not save. We cannot give what we do not have. When people are encouraged to borrow and go into debt in order to finance someone’s ministry, it is an abomination to God and He will deal with those who ask others to do so. This is what the sons of Jacob did. Jacob's sons did the same thing to the Shechemite women as Shechem did to Dinah. Both rape and murder are deplorable to God. Jesus is the real and only solution to the problems we have. He is the only One who can forgive our sins and can heal our hurts and pains. The human family has been filled with destruction from the start. Jacob’s response to the evil that his sons did was not to cry out to God, but was self preservation. He was concerned with how he would appear to the other people in the land. He was all about making a good impression. He was concerned and still looking at the circumstances even though God had already told Jacob that he would be a great nation. We are to follow God's plan for our lives and do what He wants.