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JUDGES
Updated: June 13, 2007
The Bible Commentary
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[C]2000-07 by Richard L Zorek
Our forgetfullness begins at the beginning. Our response to the grace of God too often is relief from our suffering, and not enough zeal for further activity.
- Judges 1: Our forgetfullness begins at the beginning. Our response to the grace of God too often is relief from our suffering, and not enough zeal for further activity. The children of Israel were content with a practical victory after taking the land. They failed to obey God and fully execute the harem. But what was the point? They held the power; why not leave a few of the heathen around to tote the water? We do much of the same with our institutions of higher learning. If we hold the strategic positions, we feel no need to worry if we allow the pagans to stick around, say, to teach math, or administrate. As with the heathen in the promised Land, however, soon the tables are turned. Those over whom we held power soon hold power over us.
- Judges 2:2: And ye shall male no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye doner this? They were not to worship the things they worship or place value in the things they did.
- Judges 17:6: In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes Relativism.
- Judges 21:25: In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what was right in his own eyes'A prophetic comment on the direction our contemporary world is heading very quickly. Once all authority is undermined..where do we go?? Does chaos prevail? We live in a world with many gods, and therefore, many problems.
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