Judges 19-20 is a disturbing account of a Levite, from the tribe God picked to be His closest ambassadors to Israel and the world, who not only had a concubine but also callously let her get raped to death by a Sodom-like mob. The Bible’s detractors and defenders of liberal morality hold this account up as a key exhibit, but what does God really want us to learn in this no-holds-barred account?
Author: Daniel
Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) is called the firstfruits of the resurrection (1st Cor. 15:20), and why are we called firstfruits of creation (James 1:18)? Pentecost originally was a celebration of the firstfruits of the wheat harvest and followed 50 days after the celebration of the firstfruits of the barley harvest. What is God teaching here about Yeshua and us?
Micah makes a graven image and finds a Levite to officiate worship of the graven image. The Danites come to Ephraim and to Micah’s house and ask for God’s blessing on their endeavor to the North to make war. The Danites later take Micah and the worship items as well as their entire households and emigrated North.
https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080517%20Judges%2016.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00:00 — )Subscribe: RSSSamson’s "downfall" at the hands of Delilah and the Philistines is a popular Bible story. However, Samson is more prophet — often a messianic figure — than delivering judge. Other than "I won’t leave you alone," what is the message God is telling us?
https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080503%20Judges%2015.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:53 — )Subscribe: RSSThe stories of Samson’s mighty victories with a jawbone of a donkey and torches lit between foxes’ tails are favorites in children’s books. Was Samson just a clever brute hero, or is God trying to send a message down through the ages about what […]
Samson is often depicted as a hedonistic yet blessed mealy-minded muscleman, but the Bible puts him forward as a ruler of Israel. Actually, he was a prophet too, as seen in his riddle to the Philistines in this chapter.
The account of Samson, the strongman of ancient Israel is well-known. Yet what was so important about the Nazirite vow, which partly involved no haircuts, he and his mother were made to take? Who is God’s mystery angel named Wonderful and God-like.