 | Aug 31, 2009
Daniel 11 - How Prophecy Became History
A while back my family and I undertook to study the book of Daniel. We wanted to do an inductive study so we purchased a Kay Arthur study book on Daniel. That study was the beginning of preparat... |
 | Aug 31, 2009
Several years back we came across the following list of ways to pray for the clergy, I believe, in a Newsletter from Intercessors for America. I say "I believe" because we cut it out and laminated it and it has nothing on to tell me f... |
 | Aug 29, 2009
Several years back we came across the following list of ways to pray for people of influence in a Newsletter from Intercessors for America. We cut it out and laminated it. Since that time we have been using it as a guide in praying for ou... |
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Author: Samuel completed it
Chapters: 21
Verses: 618
Bible Division: History
Hebrew Arrangement: Former Prophets (Nevi'im)
Key Word(s): "...right in his own eyes"
Theme: "Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love."
Date Covered: 1266 BC - 868 BC.
Writing Completed: ~ 868 BC.
"Judges" was evidently written, or at least finished, during the beginning of Israel's "kingdom age" since there are several references in chapters 17 - 21 to "...in those days there was no king in Israel." The book is named Judges because it generally covers the period when judges led Israel between the death of Joshua in about 1380BC into the time of Samuel, but note that Samuel lived into Saul's rise and fall as king of Israel. The book is about the 14 judges of Israel and apostacies, servitudes, and deliverances of the Israelites during that time.
In the study of Judges one phrase stands out as illustrating the cause of so much of the apostacy in this book and in life today - "...and every man did that which was right in his own eyes." It shows the spiritual decline that takes place in any society when God is left out or removed from society and daily life.
There are bright spots in the stories of Judges. There's the tremendously strong judge. There's the reluctant hero judge who led 300 against an army that was like "grasshoppers for multitude". The book of Judges is the first record in history of a woman being in prominence and leadership of a nation. Though she did not lead the army herself, she was at the battle for support of her army and sang a great battle song afterwards. The saddest part is that although Israel had heroes in Judges, their tendency was to repeat a vicious cycle of wandering away from God, being conquered and put in servitude, crying out to God, God's deliverance, then back to wandering away when "...every man did that which was right in his own eyes." Do you do things God's way or do you do that which is right in your own eyes?
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