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Judges 16 — Samson’s prophetic downfall

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080517%20Judges%2016.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00:00 — 10.3MB)Subscribe: RSSSamson’s final chapter in Judges 16 is far more than a famous love-and-betrayal story. In this study, we explore how Samson’s encounters with Delilah, the tearing out of Gaza’s city gates, and his Nazarite vow all prophetically picture both Messiah and the nation of […]

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Judges 15 — Samson’s mysterious jawboning about donkeys

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 […]

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Judges 14 — Samson’s prophetic parable

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.

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Judges 12–13 —Why God Created Samson Instead of Calling Another Judge

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.