The story of Judges, in context, is a part of a much greater story… It is part of our own history… It is a prophetic history… that comes to us and smacks us right between the eyes… calling us to lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.