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March 09, 2024Ep. 69. Judges 9 | Abimelech
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We could recap this chapter, but let's be honest. You came to the blog today because you were hoping I would address "And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem."
First of all, the word translated "evil" here occurs over 600 times in the Hebrew text. That helps our discussion. If it was only used here, we would be left to speculate and try to arrive at a conclusion that left us feeling a bit better about God rather than have to deal with this awkwardness. In all 600 instances, it means evil, harmful, wicked, or the like.
Now, if this was the only instance where God did something like this, we might be able to dismiss it as a translation issue or some other sort of fluke. However, in 1 Samuel 16, we find that an evil spirit from the Lord tormented King Saul. To really drive that point home, it is mentioned in three consecutive sentences in that chapter and then mentioned twice more as it relates to Saul...
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March 08, 2024Ep. 68. Ruth 1-4 | Ruth
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I remember in the 90s when you could buy Ruth-based wedding bands at James Avery Jewelers. In Hebrew, around the edge of the ring, it would say, in part, "Where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God." So popular was this particular line of Ruth that it became part of the wedding vows in a lot of Christian weddings at the end of the twentieth century. That's probably what the book of Ruth is best known for in my generation. But it really is quite a good book.

Ruth and her sister-in-law Orpah are Moabite women, offspring of the incestuous relationship between Lot and his daughters from Genesis 19. Of course, Ruth would not have known anything about that since about 1000 years separate the two stories. Oh, and another interesting thing of no real import: Oprah, the very famous talk show host and businesswoman, was named after Orpah in this story, but people so often mispronounced her name she adopted the current spelling. So there's something to share with people the next time the conversation at dinner comes to a standstill...
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March 07, 2024Ep. 67. Judges 6-8 | Gideon
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There are a lot of things to glean from the Gideon narrative. It shouldn't surprise us to see that the people of God have now become the people of Baal and Asherah. If you haven't gathered it by now, let me just reiterate: the Hebrew people were idolatrous almost since the beginning.

The angel of the Lord meets with Gideon and calls him to service. Gideon, of course, is reluctant. But so was Moses. And Jeremiah. And Jonah. And a bevy of others. Thankfully, God is bigger than our perceived weaknesses and uses us according to his power at work within us and not according to our own power...
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March 06, 2024Ep. 66. Judges 3-5 | Ehud and Deborah
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We have already read that the Hebrews forsook God the moment Joshua died, not that they were great at following God when Joshua was still alive, but they almost immediately intermarried with the Canaanites. "Their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods." This is the very thing Moses had told them in the song he taught them from Deuteronomy 32, "They stirred [God] to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations, they provoked him to anger. They sacrificed to demons that were no gods." It was both Moses' and Joshua's warning to the people that if they took the Canaanites as their wives, it would be like "thorns in their eyes." But, "the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth." We often think of the Judges as people who helped rescue and deliver the Israelites, but we forget that the reason the Israelites were in trouble was because of their rejection of God. So, for roughly 350 years, the people would bounce back and forth between being captives and being led by the newest Judge...
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March 05, 2024Ep. 65. Judges 19-21 | Benjamin and Jabesh Gilead
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Today, like yesterday, requires careful observation to place this story in its proper place in Judges. Though these are the final chapters of Judges, they certainly fall somewhere near the beginning. We know this because in chapter 20:28, we find, "And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, ministered in those days."
If Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, is ministering, then it is VERY early in the days of the Judges. Consider that Phinehas was the one who put an end to the sin of Peor in Numbers 25, six months before the people entered the Promised Land. He is the one who led the people of God to war in Numbers 31, about three months before entering the Promised Land. There is no way this priest is still alive 350 years later. It's possible that though this is the last story in Judges, it may have even happened earlier than the one we looked at yesterday. I can not overstate the importance of understanding the timeline of the Scripture. It will make a huge difference in how you read the text...
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March 04, 2024Ep. 64. Judges 17-18 | Idolatry and The Tribe of Dan
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If we are going to try to understand the timeline of Judges, we have to look carefully and critically at the texts. Just because the chapters are arranged for us 1-21 doesn't mean that's the order they happen in. Sometimes, this realization will really throw people for a loop, but it shouldn't. The first two chapters of Judges recap for us the end of the book of Joshua, and then, as far as the timeline is concerned, we need to jump to Judges 17. It is important to remember that the book of Judges covers about 350 years after the conquest of Canaan by Joshua.
In chapters 17 and 18, we encounter a Levite priest serving the household of Micah. In the course of the story, the Danites, who are still seeking their inheritance, meet this priest and seek his counsel as they search out a place for their inheritance. It isn't that Joshua failed to give them an inheritance; rather, they lost it. We read in Joshua 19:40-48 that, though the Danites had been given land, they were unable to keep it, so they sought out a new place. That story is highlighted here for us in much greater detail...
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March 03, 2024Episodes 57-63 summary
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March 03, 2024Ep. 63. Joshua 22-24 | Return and Warning
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There was a lot to cover in these three chapters today—a lot of things to review. The conquest of Canaan took about six years, and after that, the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh returned to the East side of the Jordan River, where they had left their families before crossing into the Promised Land with Joshua and the rest of the Hebrews. The Lord had given his people "rest." Though you and I know that it was not the final spiritual rest promised by God that could only be found in Christ. (Psalm 95:7-8; Hebrews 3,4)
In the same chapter, Joshua says, "Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves." You will remember that this is the sin Balaam led the people into in Numbers 25 when the Hebrews intermarried with the Moabite women and worshipped false gods. Tweny-four thousand fell dead in a day. That event happened about three to six months before the people entered the Promised Land and, therefore, about 6.25-6.5 years before Joshua chapter 22. At this point in the story, Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was high priest...
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March 02, 2024Ep. 62. Joshua 9-10, 14 | Gibeon and Conquest
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You have to give the Gibeonites credit for the clever nature of their deception. They knew God had commanded the death of everyone living in Canaan, and they had seen God's power demonstrated plainly. We can't blame them for wanting to be spared. But with Joshua and the leaders failing to inquire of the Lord, we can find fault.
During the reign of King Saul, he sought to put the Gibeonites to death. Keep in mind that it was about 390 years after this story in Joshua. As a result of Saul's sin, a famine came upon the land in the days of David the king. So, this deception is still an issue nearly four hundred years later. Gibeon was also home to a high place where the Jews and their kings worshipped. In some cases, it was clearly the worship of God, while in others, it was apparently idol worship...
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March 01, 2024Ep. 61. Joshua 5-6 | The Commander and Jericho
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Imagine, if you will, a group of people numbering just over 600,000 men. When you add in the women and the children, you have a group of people well over one million. This was an imposing nation. Each city in Canaan was ruled by its own king, as we will see later when Joshua puts to death thirty-one kings in thirty-one cities. The Israelite army was sizeable enough to swallow up any city. No wonder the people of Canaan had their "hearts melt" with fear. Rahab was not the only one who knew that God had given Canaan into the hands of the Hebrews.

While Joshua was near Jericho, he met the "commander of the army of the LORD." This is likely another instance of the pre-incarnate Jesus. Note that this commander receives worship. He would not have done so if he were just an angel, as evidenced in Revelation 19 and 22. God had already told Moses several times that he would send his angel (messenger) before the people into the Promised Land...
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