Lions rescue Ethiopian girl from sex-crazed villians
Original story:
https://grist.org/living/kidnapped-beaten-ethiopian-girl-rescued-by-caring-protective-lions
A 12-year-old girl kidnapped in Ethiopia was found several days after her abduction, safe under the watchful eyes of three lions.
A 12-year-old girl kidnapped by a group of seven men in the Ethiopian city of Bita Genet was found several days after her abduction, safe under the watchful eyes of three lions. Not only were the lions guarding her, they allegedly chased off her captors.
The girl was reportedly abducted by the seven men with the idea that she would be forced into marrying one of the them. According to the United Nations, about 70 percent of the marriages taking place in Ethiopia are the result of similar kidnappings. And nearly 100 percent of those abduction-marriages are not thwarted by kindly wildlife.
While it is certainly within reason to consider this a miracle, a wildlife official did point out that the lions — who guarded the girl for about a half day — may have heard her crying and mistaken her for a cub. Interesting theory, but don’t lions know the difference between a Person and a Furry Thing that Looks Just Like Them? Although who wants to complain? It’s such a great story.
God does not interfere with physical reality directly. But he appears to be able to use lions at odd points in time. Consider the wankers who tried to force King Darius to have Daniel killed:
....DAN 6:21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
DAN 6:22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
DAN 6:23 Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.
DAN 6:24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
Genesis notes that there was no eating of meat between the times of Adam and Noah but that, after the flood, humans received permission to eat meat and the antediluvian peace ended.
Nonetheless, somehow or other and three or four millenia after the antediluvian peace ended, these three lions heeded the ancient obligation to protect helpless humans from predation. I'd view it as a safe bet that they will be rewarded for this in the future life. Every human child they come across will know of this deed and will pet them, scratch them behind the ears, sing for them, and bring them fish and other pleasing things to eat.