We meet God’s next “might man of valor”; Gideon. He is a quiet and unassuming and not sure if it is God who is calling him to rise up. The Midianites are taking every last scrap of food they can find. Apparently they weren’t finding it all though because Gideon was threshing some wheat in […]
Israel is under the thumb (or tent peg) of yet another one of the nations around it. This time it is Midian. The people cry out for help and God answers them with the REASON for their distress. When I look at our reading today I don’t see a military power oppressing Israel. I see […]
The fall of Jabin at the hands of so few SINGS of the Lord’s intervention. Deborah, Barak, Jael and the 10,000 faithful are sung of in victory! SO MANY things about this victory are special and unique. It is definitely song material! First was God’s use of a woman to relay His messages to Israel. […]
We come to the next judge that God raises up for Israel. This time it is a woman! Her name is Deborah and she holds court under a palm tree. I have a couple of questions from our last time together that are kind of answered here. I had wondered how long after Ehud Shamgar […]
We take a BRIEF look at Israel’s third judge. The information on him is sparse but God felt him worth including. After 80 years of rest from war, the people apparently angered God again. This time the Philistines were their oppressors. We aren’t given any information on how long they were under the Philistines hand. […]
